Is Burma the New Cambodia?

Oct 15, 2014 | Corporate Knights
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In 1996, a photograph began circulating among the foreign press in Phnom Penh. Sam Rainsy, Cambodia’s liberal opposition leader, was pictured sitting with Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in Rangoon, Burma, where she was between stints under house arrest. He wore a cloying smile, clearly pleased at the association. But she remained typically inscrutable, with one side of her mouth curled in almost patronizing politeness toward her visitor.