Given the personal history of Aung San Suu Kyi and that of the country she has worked for so long to make free, it is no surprise that she has reached a grim milestone in her detention at the hands of the military junta that runs Myanmar, with little news about her, let alone signs of her release.
She has now, on and off, spent a total of 20 of her 80 years in some sort of captivity or confinement, and sometimes in the most appalling of conditions.
