エイトマン

ミャンマーは階級意識の強い国でアウンサンスチーのように子供のときから特別教育を受け母親とインドに渡り、イギリスに留学して育った彼女の深層心理の中には『自分は高貴な人だとの自意識が強い』。よって彼女の本心は私のような人間こそ、この国のリーダーになるべきだと思い込んでいる。1つのエピソード、自宅軟禁されていたアウンサンスーチが自宅軟禁解除になったとき、自宅前の交通規制も解除しようとしたら、規制解除すると車が多く成りうるさいからそのままにしておくようにと警察に申し入れがあったそうな。この様な人間が国のリーダーになると必ず独裁に成り、自分は国王になった気分で国民を支配する。
彼女はミャンマー人を装っているが、国王を殺し皇女はイギリス兵の妾にしてビルマ国民を貶め、また父を殺し、祖国を破壊しビルマ人を農奴化したイギリスに忠誠を誓い、イギリスに背く祖国を非難し「植民地支配の糾弾」事業を潰したと高山正之氏は評している。旦那マイケル・アリスはMI6(英国情報部)に勤務しアウンサンスーチーが英国留学中にある意図を持って接近し、結婚までしてアウンサンスーチーを英国の傀儡に仕立て上げた。
1988年母親の看病と言う事で帰国した、しかし家族は英国に残したままで、母親が死んでも帰ろうとしない。アウンサンスーチーが居座る事でミャンマーの悲劇は深みに嵌っていった。この戦いはアウンサンスーチー対軍事政権ではなく、英米対軍事政権の戦いで、アウンサンスーチーはそのお飾り役に過ぎない。元キニュン首相の側近の話では、彼女と国の将来を話して合意に達するが1週間か10日後には必ず話が違っているので交渉しても無駄だ、なぜなら彼女が承知しても英米が承知しないからだそうだ。つまり彼女は何も決定権が無くただの操り人形だったのだ。

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  1. shinichi Post author

    もう一人のアウサンスンチー (1)

    by エイトマン

    ミャンマー歳時記

    http://myanmar-yangon.net/2011/11/もう一人のアウサンスンチー-(1)

    アウンサンスチーは民主化のため軍事政権と戦うヒーローとして日本では報道され、多くの国民はそれが事実間違いないと信じ込まされている。
    ミャンマーは階級意識の強い国でアウンサンスチーのように子供のときから特別教育を受け母親とインドに渡り、イギリスに留学して育った彼女の深層心理の中には『自分は高貴な人だとの自意識が強い』。よって彼女の本心は私のような人間こそ、この国のリーダーになるべきだと思い込んでいる。1つのエピソード、自宅軟禁されていたアウンサンスーチが自宅軟禁解除になったとき、自宅前の交通規制も解除しようとしたら、規制解除すると車が多く成りうるさいからそのままにしておくようにと警察に申し入れがあったそうな。この様な人間が国のリーダーになると必ず独裁に成り、自分は国王になった気分で国民を支配する。
    彼女はミャンマー人を装っているが、国王を殺し皇女はイギリス兵の妾にしてビルマ国民を貶め、また父を殺し、祖国を破壊しビルマ人を農奴化したイギリスに忠誠を誓い、イギリスに背く祖国を非難し「植民地支配の糾弾」事業を潰したと高山正之氏は評している。旦那マイケル・アリスはMI6(英国情報部)に勤務しアウンサンスーチーが英国留学中にある意図を持って接近し、結婚までしてアウンサンスーチーを英国の傀儡に仕立て上げた。
    1988年母親の看病と言う事で帰国した、しかし家族は英国に残したままで、母親が死んでも帰ろうとしない。アウンサンスーチーが居座る事でミャンマーの悲劇は深みに嵌っていった。この戦いはアウンサンスーチー対軍事政権ではなく、英米対軍事政権の戦いで、アウンサンスーチーはそのお飾り役に過ぎない。元キニュン首相の側近の話では、彼女と国の将来を話して合意に達するが1週間か10日後には必ず話が違っているので交渉しても無駄だ、なぜなら彼女が承知しても英米が承知しないからだそうだ。つまり彼女は何も決定権が無くただの操り人形だったのだ。
    1988年ミャンマーに帰国してその後イギリスに帰らないもう1つの理由は親の残して膨大な財産の分捕り合戦を有利に進めるためで、現実に兄妹で財産分与の裁判沙汰になっている。
    日本的に言えば市民運動家上がりが政権をとると、どの様になるのか日本の国民は承知のはずだ。他人を批判しているときは舌鋒鋭く正義を振り回すが、政権の座に着けば政権を運営する能力は無く、口先だけでごまかし、失政を隠す為国民の目線を海外や、前政権に向ける政策を取り、国民の生活は以前より悪くなり、治安も乱れて国の態を無さ無い状態になるのではないか.
    以上のようなことを斟酌してミャンマーの政治を見ていけば、また違った側面が見えてくる。

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    もう一人のアウサンスンチー(2)

    by エイトマン

    ミャンマー歳時記

    http://myanmar-yangon.net/2011/12/もう一人のアウサンスンチー(2)

    「政治集会やデモの場合、どこの国もそうだが、ここも届け出制にしている。しかし、彼女は故意にそれを無視する。政府がたまりかねて規制すると『民主主義を弾圧した』と騒ぎ立てる」(山口洋二元ミャンマー大使)。彼女は骨の髄まで嫌みな英国人なのである。そんな態度を取り続けて政権と対峙してきたが、総選挙を拒否した頃からNLD内部で分裂が起こり、アウンサンスーチーの立場も微妙に成り、知識層の支持離れが始まった。国政選挙が終った後には米英からはしごを外され、米英はアウンサンスーチーの頭越しに外交交渉を始めた。これにあせったアウンサンスーチーは政権寄りの発言を繰り返し、政権に秋波を送る。ティンセィン大統領から国際経済会議に招待されたときは、たぶん天にも昇る気分だったのだろう、即刻参加する。選挙法が改正されてNLDが政党登録した時点で自身も補欠選挙に立候補する事を表明した。NLDの会議で「選挙参加は私の尊厳を損なうと考える人がいるが、政治を志す人は尊厳など考えていてはいけない」と話したという。その言葉が本心ならば良いのですが。違った見方をすれば、いま国政参加しなければ、「政権との関係改善を進める国際社会の動きに取り残され、自身が影響力を失う」との危機感があるからではないのか。
    国民の人気は相変わらず高いので政権側はこの人気を利用、アウンサンスーチ-側は存在感を誇示したいとの両者の利害が一致した。政権側、アウンサンスーチー側にしても夫々事情があり、仲良くミャンマーを民主化に進めてくれるならば結構な事で、両者の思惑違いは何年後かには表面化するでしょうが、その時はその時。
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  2. shinichi Post author

    Michael Aris

    Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Aris

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    Aung San Suu Kyi

    Wikipedia

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aung_San_Suu_Kyi

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    The untold love story of Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi

    Aung San Suu Kyi, whose story is told in a new film, went from devoted Oxford housewife to champion of Burmese democracy – but not without great personal sacrifice.

    by Rebecca Frayn

    The Telegraph

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/burmamyanmar/8948018/The-untold-love-story-of-Burmas-Aung-San-Suu-Kyi.html


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    Michael Aris, Aung San Suu Kyi and their first son Alexander, in 1973


    When I began to research a screenplay about Aung San Suu Kyi four years ago, I wasn’t expecting to uncover one of the great love stories of our time. Yet what emerged was a tale so romantic – and yet so heartbreaking – it sounded more like a pitch for a Hollywood weepie: an exquisitely beautiful but reserved girl from the East meets a handsome and passionate young man from the West.
    For Michael Aris the story is a coup de foudre, and he eventually proposes to Suu amid the snow-capped mountains of Bhutan, where he has been employed as tutor to its royal family. For the next 16 years, she becomes his devoted wife and a mother-of-two, until quite by chance she gets caught up in politics on a short trip to Burma, and never comes home. Tragically, after 10 years of campaigning to try to keep his wife safe, Michael dies of cancer without ever being allowed to say goodbye.
    I also discovered that the reason no one was aware of this story was because Dr Michael Aris had gone to great lengths to keep Suu’s family out of the public eye. It is only because their sons are now adults – and Michael is dead – that their friends and family feel the time has come to speak openly, and with great pride, about the unsung role he played.
    The daughter of a great Burmese hero, General Aung San, who was assassinated when she was only two, Suu was raised with a strong sense of her father’s unfinished legacy. In 1964 she was sent by her diplomat mother to study Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford, where her guardian, Lord Gore-Booth, introduced her to Michael. He was studying history at Durham but had always had a passion for Bhutan – and in Suu he found the romantic embodiment of his great love for the East. But when she accepted his proposal, she struck a deal: if her country should ever need her, she would have to go. And Michael readily agreed.
    For the next 16 years, Suu Kyi was to sublimate her extraordinary strength of character and become the perfect housewife. When their two sons, Alexander and Kim, were born she became a doting mother too, noted for her punctiliously well-organised children’s parties and exquisite cooking. Much to the despair of her more feminist friends, she even insisted on ironing her husband’s socks and cleaning the house herself.
    Then one quiet evening in 1988, when her sons were 12 and 14, as she and Michael sat reading in Oxford, they were interrupted by a phone call to say Suu’s mother had had a stroke.
    She at once flew to Rangoon for what she thought would be a matter of weeks, only to find a city in turmoil. A series of violent confrontations with the military had brought the country to a standstill, and when she moved into Rangoon Hospital to care for her mother, she found the wards crowded with injured and dying students. Since public meetings were forbidden, the hospital had become the centre-point of a leaderless revolution, and word that the great General’s daughter had arrived spread like wildfire.
    When a delegation of academics asked Suu to head a movement for democracy, she tentatively agreed, thinking that once an election had been held she would be free to return to Oxford again. Only two months earlier she had been a devoted housewife; now she found herself spearheading a mass uprising against a barbaric regime.
    In England, Michael could only anxiously monitor the news as Suu toured Burma, her popularity soaring, while the military harassed her every step and arrested and tortured many of her party members. He was haunted by the fear that she might be assassinated like her father. And when in 1989 she was placed under house arrest, his only comfort was that it at least might help keep her safe.
    Michael now reciprocated all those years Suu had devoted to him with a remarkable selflessness of his own, embarking on a high-level campaign to establish her as an international icon that the military would never dare harm. But he was careful to keep his work inconspicuous, because once she emerged as the leader of a new democracy movement, the military seized upon the fact that she was married to a foreigner as a basis for a series of savage – and often sexually crude – slanders in the Burmese press.
    For the next five years, as her boys were growing into young men, Suu was to remain under house arrest and kept in isolation. She sustained herself by learning how to meditate, reading widely on Buddhism and studying the writings of Mandela and Gandhi. Michael was allowed only two visits during that period. Yet this was a very particular kind of imprisonment, since at any time Suu could have asked to be driven to the airport and flown back to her family.
    But neither of them ever contemplated her doing such a thing. In fact, as a historian, even as Michael agonised and continued to pressurise politicians behind the scenes, he was aware she was part of history in the making. He kept on display the book she had been reading when she received the phone call summoning her to Burma. He decorated the walls with the certificates of the many prizes she had by now won, including the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. And above his bed he hung a huge photograph of her.
    Inevitably, during the long periods when no communication was possible, he would fear Suu might be dead, and it was only the odd report from passers-by who heard the sound of her piano-playing drifting from the house that brought him peace of mind. But when the south-east Asian humidity eventually destroyed the piano, even this fragile reassurance was lost to him.
    Then, in 1995, Michael quite unexpectedly received a phone call from Suu. She was ringing from the British embassy, she said. She was free again! Michael and the boys were granted visas and flew to Burma. When Suu saw Kim, her younger son, she was astonished to see he had grown into a young man. She admitted she might have passed him in the street. But Suu had become a fully politicised woman whose years of isolation had given her a hardened resolve, and she was determined to remain in her country, even if the cost was further separation from her family.
    The journalist Fergal Keane, who has met Suu several times, describes her as having a core of steel. It was the sheer resilience of her moral courage that filled me with awe as I wrote my screenplay for The Lady. The first question many women ask when they hear Suu’s story is how she could have left her children. Kim has said simply: “She did what she had to do.” Suu Kyi herself refuses to be drawn on the subject, though she has conceded that her darkest hours were when “I feared the boys might be needing me”.
    That 1995 visit was the last time Michael and Suu were ever allowed to see one another. Three years later, he learnt he had terminal cancer. He called Suu to break the bad news and immediately applied for a visa so that he could say goodbye in person. When his application was rejected, he made over 30 more as his strength rapidly dwindled. A number of eminent figures – among them the Pope and President Clinton – wrote letters of appeal, but all in vain. Finally, a military official came to see Suu. Of course she could say goodbye, he said, but to do so she would have to return to Oxford.
    The implicit choice that had haunted her throughout those 10 years of marital separation had now become an explicit ultimatum: your country or your family. She was distraught. If she left Burma, they both knew it would mean permanent exile – that everything they had jointly fought for would have been for nothing. Suu would call Michael from the British embassy when she could, and he was adamant that she was not even to consider it.
    When I met Michael’s twin brother, Anthony, he told me something he said he had never told anyone before. He said that once Suu realised she would never see Michael again, she put on a dress of his favourite colour, tied a rose in her hair, and went to the British embassy, where she recorded a farewell film for him in which she told him that his love for her had been her mainstay. The film was smuggled out, only to arrive two days after Michael died.
    For many years, as Burma’s human rights record deteriorated, it seemed the Aris family’s great self-sacrifice might have been in vain. Yet in recent weeks the military have finally announced their desire for political change. And Suu’s 22-year vigil means she is uniquely positioned to facilitate such a transition – if and when it comes – exactly as Mandela did so successfully for South Africa.
    As they always believed it would, Suu and Michael’s dream of democracy may yet become a reality.

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  3. shinichi Post author

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    ミャンマーに滞在している日本人が書いた文章だ。

    事実かどうかは別として、2011年にミャンマーにいた人たちの考えは、この記事のようなものだったのだろう。

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