Forgiveness necessary, Suu Kyi tells NLD’e elected members



NAYPYIDAW: -- National League for Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has urged her elected candidates to join hands with those once responsible for persecuting members of the party, telling them that forgiveness is a necessary step toward national reconciliation, The Irrawaddy reported.

Speaking in Naypyidaw on Saturday, the NLD leader told party representatives from upper Myanmar to consider the possibility of working alongside their erstwhile political foes.

NLD members at the meeting said Suu Kyi had told them some people had worried that the party would seek retribution for the past oppression of democratic activists of against communities that had not voted for the party in the Nov 8 election.

Thant Wai Kyaw, who was elected in Sagaing Division, said the NLD will give equal legal protection to everyone and would not oppress those who do not agree with the party.

Suu Kyi met with elected representatives from Mandalay, Sagaing, Magwe divisions and Kachin, Shan and Chin states in two different meetings, also urging them to work for peace and rule of law in an effort to end civil wars in ethnic areas.

The meetings came a day after Suu Kyi visited former dictator Snr-Gen Than Shwe. Though neither of them issued official statements, Than Shwe’s grandson Nay Shwe Thway Aung wrote in a public Facebook post that Suu Kyi had no desire for revenge against her one-time jailer.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/forgiveness-necessary-suu-kyi-tells-nlde-elected-members


-- Thai PBS 2015-12-08

Very noble. Reminds me of Nelson Mandela.