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Crew trapped at sea due to China s ban on Australian coal reunite with family after seven months
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Virendrasinha Bhosale pictured with his wife and son after returning home to India.
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Forced to anchor in China s Bohai Sea for more than seven months, Indian seafarers on a cargo ship loaded with 160,000 tons of Australian coal have finally arrived home.
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The ship was stranded on China s coast after Beijing banned Australian coal imports
Another bulk carrier, the MV Anastasia, is still unable to unload in China
The Indian flagged bulk carrier MV Jag Anand managed to get a crew change in Japan last month, allowing 23 of its crew members to head home.
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With her detention Monday amid a military coup in Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi’s dizzying journey on the world stage from democracy icon to leader of an elected government and then, astonishingly, a stalwart defender of the slaughter of Rohingya Muslims returned to a familiar place.
The 75-year-old is a political prisoner again, held along with dozens of allies and political leaders as the army retook power barely five years after elections that ended half a century of military rule.
The former junta held Suu Kyi under house arrest for nearly 15 years at her family’s lakeside villa in Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city, starting in 1989. She gained international prominence as the serene, smiling face of the struggle for democracy, winning the Nobel Peace Prize and basking in comparisons to Mahatma Gandhi for her promotion of nonviolence.
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Ten years after her release, Aung San Suu Kyi is back in detention in Myanmar
During 15 years under house arrest, Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi transformed from a national figure into a global icon of democracy, winning the Nobel Peace Prize and a host of other accolades.
She was finally released in 2010, and five years later, military rule ended as the country held its first free elections in 25 years, in which Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) won a landslide.
Suu Kyi’s victory was lauded within the international community, where it was
viewed by many as a triumph of democratic values over the forces of authoritarianism. But true democracy requires more than a single election victory.
Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi appears to be heading back to where her rise to international prominence began: in detention, her fate at the whims of the Tatmadaw, the military which has ruled over Myanmar for most of the last 50 years.