History has rendered its verdict, but the tragedy is that so few were listening when the verdict still had the power to save lives.
When Daw Aung San Suu Kyi stood before the International Court of Justice in The Hague in December 2019, much of the world believed it was witnessing the moral collapse of a woman it had once revered. What many failed to see was the machinery behind the moment: a military system that had brutalised Myanmar for generations, perfected impunity as governance, and would soon reveal that its appetite for violence was never confined to one people or one allegation before a court.
