Description:
"The lawsuit against Daw Aung San Suu Kyi filed by her brother Aung San Oo is for half ownership of the house where she now
lives. As with most property disputes, and particularly in the very difficult situation Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is presently in, a
private settlement would clearly have been preferred and would have been a more appropriate course of action for Aung San Oo
to take. There would have been many options available, including negotiating a money equivalent of the half share or establishing a
trust in which both interests could be held. However, he decided to file a suit against his sister without even affording her prior
notice of his intentions. This approach reeks of a sinister attempt to publicly humiliate the acclaimed leader of the National League
for Democracy (NLD), which overwhelmingly won the one and only democratic general election conducted by the military junta..."
Source/publisher:
Legal Issues on Burma Journal No. 7 (Burma Lawyers' Council)
Date of Publication:
2000-12-00
Date of entry:
2003-06-03
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English
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