The Irrawaddy Burma Election 2010

Home QUOTABLE Lee Hsein Loong, the prime minister of Singapore

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“I suspect a few key people [from the Burmese military] who make the decisions, they have decided that this is an existential thing for them. If they’re out, it’s not just the country and the government has changed, but 'where do I go?' and 'which jail will I be in?' and my children and my jewels and my billions?”
—Lee Hsein Loong, the prime minister of Singapore

 

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Nyan_win80"Once her [Aung San Suu Kyi's] sentence expires in November, and that notion is not disputed, it is our understanding that she will have served her sentence."
—Nyan Win, the foreign minister of Burma

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