Will they won't they and if they do, what then?
Enough with the cryptic. There's talk, rumor really, that Aung San Suu Kyi may be released from house arrest in time to organize her party's campaign ahead of Burma's first elections in twenty years, scheduled for some time in 2010. The fact that her last release in 2003 coincided with a botched, if heavily choreographed, attempt to assassinate her as she traveled around the country, and that the new constitution carefully bars her in all but name from running suggests another question to the junta entirely: so what? Could this all be a clever ploy to seem magnanimous but instead defang an icon?