Malaysian-Chinese actress Michelle Yeoh, who played the lead role of Ung San Suu Kyi in the 2011 film “In the Name of Love: Ung San Suu Kyi” (The Lady), posted a photo of herself on social media Instagram on the 20th, performing the “three-finger salute” as a symbol of resistance to tyranny. “She also called herself “an old friend of Myanmar” and said she was “heartbroken” to see Myanmar in turmoil and called for a peaceful solution.
Michelle Yeoh, 58, is a board member of the SUU Foundation, a humanitarian organization founded by Ung San Suu Kyi. In the aforementioned posting, she said that deciding the fate of a country is a major task that must be accomplished through peaceful means. Calmness and sobriety should and must be maintained. Treating each other with dignity and respecting the basic human rights of others is the only way for Myanmar to survive and thrive.
In response, many netizens from different countries left messages thanking Michelle Yeoh for her solidarity with Myanmar. However, some netizens questioned her “where has she been” since the “anti-sending to China” campaign in Hong Kong in 2019, criticizing her for never taking a stand in support of Hong Kong.
Yang met Ung San Suu Kyi herself in Myanmar in December 2010 and was denied entry when she arrived at Yangon airport in June 2011. An anonymous Burmese official alleged at the Time that Michelle Yeoh had been blacklisted by the Burmese military government and “would not have the opportunity to enter Burma again.
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