The entire world praised the military and Aung San Suu Kyi, when power was passed on to the democracy icon after 50 years of military dictatorship. One year later she defended an ethnic cleansing and had isolated herself from the public. This film tells you why
This film takes us back to when the military made their master plan for a so-called democracy and wrote a very scripted role for their enemy no. 1, Aung San Suu Kyi. The film does not drown in history but builds in a dramatic way the character and story set-up that takes the audience anew into the crisis they know from the news - however, with a radically different perspective. The film is built by bricks of stories and key characters and is told in a spellbinding manner of pursuing a deeper mystery. The audience gets deeper and deeper into this complex world of power driven by peculiar characters and even astrology.
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Through key players of the turbulent political history of Myanmar, this documentary attempts to find out to what extent Aung San Suu Kyi, the Peace Nobel Prize laureat, has been cheated by the Burmese army and its promises of democratic transition? And thus understand her silence on the Rohingya genocide.
In 2010, following the uprising of the "Saffron revolution", Myanmar begins a hesitant process of political and economic reform; courts amended, freedoms expanded. Aung San Suu Ky was released, she participates in the government in 2012 and the National League for Democracy (NLD) comes to power in 2015. Democracy in Myanmar remains a parenthesis, after five decades of military dictatorship, the whole system could not change. Military has always be a component of Birma contemporary history.
To win the election, Aung San Suu Kyi had decided to trust the Burmese army, which she had spent decades fighting, when she began the country's democratic transition. The icon is a bit faded by the difficulties and pitfalls of the democratic transition that the regime intends to master while inter-religious and ethnic violence periodically shakes the country. Indeed civilian power remains limited in comparison with that of the military, regardless of the verdict of the ballot box. Aung San Suu Kyi, who hoped during her term of office to bring to a successful conclusion the peace processes initiated with the numerous ethnic rebellions that plague the country's outlying regions, has not succeeded in doing so, as the army has been diligent in putting the brakes on discussions. Aung San Suu Kyi had limited power, the military controls democracy through the country's constitution, which allows the military to retain regal ministerial positions and a percentage of seats in parliament that allows it to veto any changes to the constitution. Her governement has let the violence spread throughout the country and turned a blind eye to the genocide of the Rohingya a Muslim minority in Burma, Southeast Asia. Thousands have been killed and more than 740,000 Rohingya have been forced to flee to neighboring Bangladesh.
Original title - On the Inside of a Military Dictatorship
Written and directed by Karen Stokkendal Poulsen
Produced by Bullitt Film (DK) in co-production with Little Big Story (FR)
© 2019, Licensed by First Hand Films
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