The International Gall of Gloria Arroyo to Condemn Repression in Myanmar

Sensing an excellent opportunity to score international points at little cost to domestic political stock, Mike Arroyo's wife stretched up to her full height and, with all the aura of statesmanship that she could muster, declared to the Filipino people and to the rest of the world that there was a danger that the Philippine Senate would not ratify the newly signed Asean Charter if democracy was not restored to the country that has been ruled by generals since the prime minister was overthrown by a military coup in 1962. For good measure, Mrs. Gloria Arroyo sternly said opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi had to be released from the house arrest under which she had lived shortly after the ruling junta's rejection of the opposition's overwhelming 1992 election victory....

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