Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and crusader for democracy in Myanmar, is once again behind bars. Her resounding victory at the polls, and re-election to office as civilian head of state, was overturned by the February 2021 military coup—a move with ruinous consequences. Myanmar today is a country in extremis, war-torn and seemingly without salvation for the multitudes seeking an end to military rule. Aung San Suu Kyi has been here before. The first half of her political career was spent under house arrest. But this time she awaits sentencing for a variety of charges clearly calculated to keep her out of politics, and almost certainly in prison, for the rest of her life. This time she is caught in a zero sum game. The jury is still out on Aung San Suu Kyi in other respects. Once deified for her advocacy of democracy and human rights, later vilified for her denial, if not defense of, the Burmese military’s genocidal campaign against the Rohingya, she is nevertheless referre