Aung San Suu Kyi seems to have Myanmar’s countryside in her corner
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This village at the end of a long, bumpy dirt road in the Irrawaddy Delta would seem a natural stronghold for the former generals who rule Myanmar.
The villagers, mostly rice farmers, are overwhelmingly Buddhist and undereducated, and they live in a society still shaped by the traditional hierarchies of the preindustrial countryside.