Progress has been made on peace agreements with ethnic-minority insurgents – conflicts rooted in the divide-and-rule strategy of colonialism, which the country’s post-independence rulers maintained for more than six decades. The Nobel laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was not only released from house arrest, but is now campaigning hard for a parliamentary seat in April’s by-elections.
在新总统吴登盛的领导下，缅甸当局回应了政治和经济开放的呼声。与少数民族叛军的和平谈判取得了进展——此类冲突的根源可以追溯到殖民地时期的分割统治策略，在独立后的60余年里，缅甸统治者也延续了这一策略。诺贝尔和平奖获得者昂山素季不但被解除了软禁，还开始全力争取在4月的补选中问鼎议会席位。