Suu Kyi scores Obama byline with 5th ‘Most Influential’ listing

Time magazine on Thursday released its annual list of the world’s “100 Most Influential People,” with National League for Democracy (NLD) chairwoman Aung San Suu Kyi taking a spot for the fifth time among its pantheon of the powerful, The Irrawaddy reported.

Suu Kyi’s profile for Time’s 2016 iteration was written by US President Barack Obama. In his text Obama, who with 11 appearances holds the record for being featured on the list the most times, described his meetings with the NLD leader and what her guidance could mean for Myanmar’s future.

“Burma still faces huge challenges, and its success will depend on ending long-running conflicts and upholding the human rights of all ethnic groups and religions. But democracy is poised to deliver a future of greater promise and prosperity,” Obama wrote.

The magazine began compiling the annual list in 1999, and Suu Kyi was also among Time’s top 100 in 2013, 2011, 2008 and 2004.

Her NLD won an overwhelming majority in last year’s election, trouncing the then-ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) and, since then, pledging to form a “national reconciliation” government to work toward ending decades of ethnic conflicts by uniting the country around the NLD’s governing coalition.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/content/160775

-- Thai PBS 2016-04-23

More interested in what Snowden may think.