IS AUNG SAN SUU KYI, THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF MAYANMAAR/

                                     Recently,  The  Current Head of Myanmar, Mr.Thein Sein, made a welcome statement  in an interview with BBC that he would accept Aung San Suu Kyi as the next President of Myanmar, if she is democratically elected.  

         I'd assert that people  of Myanmar would love to democratically elect  her as the next President- provided Mr.Thein Sein, persuades  other members of his dictatorial Military Regime to sense peoples' moods and make the necessary amendments to Myanmar's Constitution by removing all sorts of illegal restrictions on her candidature as the next President elect- sooner than later-  to pave way for democracy and the rule of Aung San Suu Kyi as the next President in place of the current corrupt dictatorial regime. She was conferred Noble Prize For Peace  in 1991,  and also several  other International Prizes for her  leadership in democracy and peace.. Her party, "The National Leage For Democracy", including herself- had  got  democratically elected to Myanmar's Lower House of Parliament in 1991 securing comfortable majority; and much prior to that in 1989 itself she was illegally put under house arrest and only in November 2010 - she was set free from her House Arrest -succumbing to the mounting  Domestic and International pressure  of countries like US, Britain and South Africa etc including India.. . That democratic election of NLD, her party, and her own election as M.P to the Lower House of Parliament in 1991 was illegally nullified by the Military  Dictatorship by bending Myanmar's Constitutional Rules/Laws to suit their military regime and replacing them with laws that enabled  the military to impose its corrupt, and  dictatorial rule on the peace loving people of Myanmar in 1991.under the stewardship of Mr.Thein Sein. All these acts of the  brutal Military dictatorial regime were much against the democratic aspirations and  wishes of the people of Myanmar. Mr.Thein Sein, should respect and abide by the democratic wishes of  the people  of Myanmar, and step down leading to a democratic election of Ms.Suu Kyi- as the next President.

           A number of peaceful protest marches/movements carried out by the people of Myanmar all these years-  were brutally suppressed by the Military Regime.  History also bears ample  testimony to the fact that it is democracy alone that triumphs in the end and not  the illegal, unconstitutional, and autocratic military regimes.

               I'm looking forward to Ms.Aung San Suu Kyi, ascending  the Presidential Throne -in the near future; by once again proving that people of any country would love to elect persons of high stature and caliber  like Ms.Suu Kyi, and other members of her NLD party to govern their country and not corrupt dictators such as Mr.Thein Sein and his supporters, who'd never hesitated for a moment to trample upon peoples' fundamental freedoms, democracy and liberty with impunity.

Ms.Nirmala P.Rao

Legal Expert AND Political Analyst.

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WOMEN AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

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                                      Majority of Indian Men, who are in a patriarchal milieu think and consider that the women- especially  their wives- are mere chattels and have no dignity or mind of her own. They think they have an entrenched patriarchal right to bash their wives left  right and centre.


                                       If she is more educated, and better employed drawing  lucrative salary and perks etc than them, the male ego in them gets thrashed and such husbands start nursing an inferiority complex and jealousy against their wives from day one of their marriage. This is not to speak of less fortunate housewives, who don't have good education and a career of their own.to take pride in. They are financially dependent on their husbands for every small wish of theirs'. These poor housewives mostly bear the brunt of their husbands disappointments, false male  ego and workplace irritations  and wrath etc etc in the form of daily beatings and vulgar verbal abuse on their bodies and minds respectively.. In both these cases husbands think that their wives can't be subjugated  to them or their families except through the weapon of indiscriminate  and mind boggling violence.

                                       Thus, both the highly educated and financially independent and also their less fortunate economically dependent sisters who are mere wives are  constantly subjected to physical, psychological and emotional abuse at the husbands' and their in laws hands. .

                                         The fortunate first category of women can escape this kind of daily harassment and abuse of all kinds at their husbands' and in laws hands,  by simply divorcing them through a court room battle. But, the less fortunate second category of wives/housewives are thrown lock, stock and barrel by their inhuman and cruel husbands, manytimes along with their children, and sometimes without children; in the latter case husbands and in laws prefer retaining the custody of children.

                               I strongly urge the Central and  all State Governments to create  Women's  Welfare Funds inviting contributions from philanthropic minded rich persons including the upper middle class people.People contributing to such funds should be given tax sops as women, who constitute half of our population are the most discriminated lot. The disbursal of such funds to the needy women should be manned by persons with clean track record of public service and philanthropic services .These funds should be  utilized  for  imparting training to these hapless husband battered and  harassed wives in soft skills such as how to be more self- confident,   how to communicate more effectively, how to be self respectful, dignified and  be self reliant  through vocational or other educational training in accordance with their individual talents.They should be provided opportunities to get gainfully  employed or self employed. Right  now, although,  the Indian Domestic Violence Law, and Property Law and Family Laws etc are to some extent fighting this inequality, and  the menace of wife beating and other forms of Domestic Violence such as dowry harassment and dowry deaths etc with some success, the law is not fully geared up to meet fully,  this  cruel and dangerous menace head on. In most cases husbands' try to escape the law by denying maintenance and custody of children  or paying a paltry sum as maintenance and come up with all kinds of false allegations and excuses to deny the hapless women of both these categories- their due  maintenance or compensation , custody oi children etc.,

                    My  suggestions  to curb this menace are the following:

1) Create a Women's Welfare Fund both at the States level and at the Central Levels and meet the psychological, educational and  economical needs of the  hapless and needy wives..

2) Make all the existing laws to protect victims of domestic violence effective, efficient  and more potent in  every way  by removing the loopholes in women's laws and strengthening them in every way so that these laws are given more teeth and become  more stringent, punitive and deterrent in the real sense of these terms.The entire machinery for the making/unmaking of these laws and their enforcement  should be composed of individuals with clean credentials and exemplary track record in public service.

3) The Women's Welfare Funds should be utilized in making the victims of domestic violence self reliant, economically independent. through gainful employment in some organization or self employed 

 4) Legal Awareness along with general education should be provided right  from primary school level by making it part of the academic curricula- as I see, still in many parts of India, Child Marriages and Teenage pregnancies etc are taking place leaving such hapless children and teenagers on the roads, after suffering domestic violence and other kinds of abuse..

5) Every Girl Child should be given a Mandatory Free Martial Arts Training right from Primary School level so as to make her more  Self confident, and also use her self denfence  training in these Martial Arts against perpetrators of violence against her body, mind and her property.

6) Lastly, attitudinal and mindset changes in our Society  regarding  acceptance of  women being equal and having dignity on par with  their male counterparts etc would ultimately result in  the disappearance of all sorts of Gender Discrimination against women including Domestic Violence. The bottom line is that: :if such an egalitarian society is created, the currently prevalent  gender discrimination/bias and the resultant Domestic Violence etc would ultimately wane .I Welcome Such  a Society in the near future.

Ms.Nirmala P.Rao
Legal Expert And Political Analyst

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