Media Coverage: Lady Of Myanmar Not Lady Gaga
Sunday, October 24, 2010 at 02:44PM 
The following story from Myanmar made news in the Sydney Morning Herald in Australia last week.
" United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed ''grave concern'' at the Burmese junta's refusal to free opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi before an election next month. The UN chief accused the government of being ''slow and incomplete'' in meeting political commitments and said its refusal to hold talks with the international community was ''deeply frustrating''.
In a report on human rights in Burma, Mr Ban made repeated calls for the military government to free Ms Suu Kyi if it wanted the November 7 election to have any international credibility. Aung San Suu Kyi has spent most of the past two decades under house arrest. Her National League for Democracy (NLD) won the last election in 1990 but she was never allowed to take power. The junta has banned the NLD from the coming poll".
We have written of the ongoing political injustice in Myanmar several times in the past (see below). The sad fact is that as the years go by nothing has ever changed. The election next month is just for show and controlled by the military regime. Meanwhile, The United Nations continues to show how useless it really is while Aung San Suu Kyi continues under political house arrest.
Unfortunately, the media in the west continues to lose its focus in the instant world of the internet and the shallow attraction of the entertainment faux celebrity.
If the United States media could get its coverage off of the vapid exploits of Lady Gaga for a little while, it could report on some actual news. News like the incredible real life story of bravery and courage in defense of freedom by The Lady of Myanmar. Sadly, the reporting of real news of international substance may now be just too much to ask.
eworldvu articles on Myanmar are as follows:
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