After Victory in Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi Quietly Shapes a Transition

After Victory in Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi Quietly Shapes a Transition
By THOMAS FULLER
NEW YORK TIMES

NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar — Since her party’s thumping election victory last month, Myanmar’s democracy leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, has said little and made few public appearances. So when she emerged recently in her constituency, she was mobbed by reporters and photographers, eager for some hint about how her party will govern after the new Parliament is seated next month.

It was not to be. The 70-year-old national icon had come to pick up trash, an exercise described by her party as bringing change through acts of individual responsibility.

“Don’t just take photos,” she scolded the photographers as she crouched to the shrubs covering the sandy soil of the Irrawaddy Delta and began picking up bits of trash. “Help pick up the garbage.”

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-- New York Times 2015-12-22