Excerpts from the book Best Laid Plans: The Inside Story of Reform in Aung San Suu Kyi’s Myanmar By Sean Turnell.
Best Laid Plans presents the insider perspective of Sean Turnell, who worked as “Special Economic Consultant” to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on economic reform in the National League for Democracy (NLD) era.
This excerpt gives a glimpse into Su Kyi’s thinking to the Rohingya situation:
"Daw Aung San Suu Kyi told Turnell that she was aware of the international reaction to Rakhine, but thought that even close friends underappreciated her limited room for maneuver, the ever-present threat of a coup, and the notion that she might just have ideas herself on how to bring the military to heel.
Then she asked, “Do they really think I would just abandon the principles over which I was detained for nearly 20 years so easily?”"