This article was originally written for Apple Daily, as the author’s weekly column for the newspaper’s online English section. However, following the police raid on the newspaper on June 17, 2021, and the arrest of the editor and four senior executives, Apple Daily understandably decided not to publish. It was written the night before the police raid on the newspaper. Tomorrow is Aung San Suu Kyi’s 76th birthday, and my nephew’s eighth. The contrast could not be more stark. My nephew will spend his birthday surrounded by family and school friends, showered with gifts and having a paintballing party. Myanmar’s democracy leader will spend hers in isolation, cut off from political colleagues, unable to contact family and back under house arrest after over a decade of freedom and the past five years as her country’s de facto head of government. She could spend the remaining years of her life in …