Question of the Day
May. 14th, 2009 09:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
danalwynWho the hell is John Yettaw? And why did he give the Burmese government an excuse to jail Aung San Suu Kyi? Why did he breach the embargo on contacting her, not just once, but for a second time, swimming across a lake to do so?
The man has no internet presence, but speculation has to abound. Was he a well-intentioned foreigner with no comprehension of the fact that breaking the ban on visiting the activist would give them another excuse to jail her? Was he a self-centered fool seeking only to get attention? Was he an insane stalker? Or worse, was he a Burmese government stooge, a person paid to provide the junta with an excuse to put Aung San Suu Kyi back in jail? We may never know.
We were so close too. The charges against Suu Kyi were ludicrous, but even they would have run out at the end of May. The Junta would have had to invent another, equally ludicrous charge, to keep her under arrest. Now they're saved the effort of looking like total idiots by this man's stunt. Whatever his aims, he allowed the Burmese junta to have a pseudo-legal excuse to keep one of the world's most prominent democracy activists in jail, perhaps indefinitely this time.
So who are you Mr. Yettaw? And where do you come from, because if the Burmese ever let you come home, don't expect to find a friendly welcome waiting for you on this end.
The man has no internet presence, but speculation has to abound. Was he a well-intentioned foreigner with no comprehension of the fact that breaking the ban on visiting the activist would give them another excuse to jail her? Was he a self-centered fool seeking only to get attention? Was he an insane stalker? Or worse, was he a Burmese government stooge, a person paid to provide the junta with an excuse to put Aung San Suu Kyi back in jail? We may never know.
We were so close too. The charges against Suu Kyi were ludicrous, but even they would have run out at the end of May. The Junta would have had to invent another, equally ludicrous charge, to keep her under arrest. Now they're saved the effort of looking like total idiots by this man's stunt. Whatever his aims, he allowed the Burmese junta to have a pseudo-legal excuse to keep one of the world's most prominent democracy activists in jail, perhaps indefinitely this time.
So who are you Mr. Yettaw? And where do you come from, because if the Burmese ever let you come home, don't expect to find a friendly welcome waiting for you on this end.