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From Our Own Correspondent: Aung San's ambiguous legacy in Myanmar

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(Image: Aung San Suu Kyi pays homage to her late father at a ceremony marking Martyrs' Day in Myanmar. Credit: EPA/LYNN BO BO)

27/07/2019 GMT

Aung San's ambiguous legacy in Myanmar

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Aung San's ambiguous legacy in Myanmar

Why Aung San Suu Kyi's father is an icon. Plus tales from Iraq, India and the Philippines

Why Aung San Suu Kyi's father is still a national hero; the simmering streets of Basra in Iraq; India's space optimism; and how President Duterte's jokes are no laughing matter

Aung San Suu Kyi was a figurehead for global human rights - at least before the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar worsened. Within the country, the prestige and the aura of her late father, General Aung San, still lends her added legitimacy. But what would he have made of Burmese government today - and his daughter's approach to national unity? Nick Beake explores the life and afterlife of a national hero. 

Pascale Harter introduces this story along with other dispatches from correspondents around the world. 

In Iraq, the summer months can be a time of unbearable heat and fraying tempers - especially in the southern city of Basra, where local people are tired of high unemployment, shoddy services, and time-serving politicians. Lizzie Porter spoke to some of the young men turning out to demonstrate their disgust over these grievances.

BBC India correspondent Rajini Vaidyanathan has seen for herself how spirits in Delhi were downcast after a loss in the Cricket World Cup and a failed launch for the Chandrayaan 2 moon lander. But she also saw elation when it finally reached lift-off - and heard how it's inspiring schoolkids with a 
heightened pride in India's achievements. 

And Howard Johnson in Manila explores what's really behind President Rodrigo Duterte's notoriously near-the-knuckle humour. Some Filipino jokes just don't translate that well for an international audience - but there is also real menace lurking in some of his supposedly comic public remarks. 

(Image: Aung San Suu Kyi pays homage to her late father at a ceremony marking Martyrs' Day in Myanmar. Credit: EPA/LYNN BO BO)

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