

As the generals loosened their grip, culminating in Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s rise to leadership in 2015 elections, the international community responded by lifting most sanctions and pouring investment into the country. Myanmar for five decades had languished under strict military rule that led to international isolation and sanctions. She said she thinks the military is determined to win exactly as it did in the past - “but this is not the case anymore, and I hope it will not be the case again." Soe Win, on July 16 but never received a response and has not heard from the military since September. She proposed the idea of holding “an all-inclusive dialogue” to the deputy commander-in-chief, Vice Senior Gen.
