The historic parliamentary debut of prisoner-turned-politician Aung San Suu Kyi has been delayed over her party’s refusal for her to take the oath and say the words, to “safeguard” the constitution. The NLD said it wants to pursue constitutional amendments to reduce the military’s role in politics marked by ineptitude and brutality over the past 5 decades. The decision reportedly did not sit well with some quarters who would have wanted to add Suu Kyi’s new role in the parliament as part of a string of good news, particularly the lifting of economic and trade sanctions by European Union, the United States, Canada, Australia, and others, ending a 2-decade-long isolation for Myanmar.
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