December 27, 2017

She was the poster child of Asean's last frontier, the opposition head turned state leader on whom many had pinned their hopes for Myanmar's democratic transition.

But 2017 would be the year she dramatically fell from grace - and soured relations with many Western organisations that had sustained her during her time as a political prisoner.

Ms Aung San Suu Kyi's job had not been easy from the beginning. Even while she assumed office in 2016 at the age of 70 with a clear majority in Parliament, she was shackled to a military-crafted Constitution that, in practice, reared a two-headed government.

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