Nicholas Farrelly is Professor and Head of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania in Australia. He is also on the board of the Australia-Asean Council.
The military, which toppled Suu Kyi in a coup, has slightly reduced the 78-year-old’s long jail term – but such gestures are empty and far from enough to alter how the murderous regime is viewed.
If a fraction of the support to Ukraine was provided to Myanmar’s resistance fighters, they would have the chance to build a thriving democratic state in the heart of Asia