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By Peter Shadbolt for CNN updated 3:39 AM EST, Wed November 30, 2011
CNN) -- Hillary Clinton was due to arrive in Myanmar on Wednesday looking for signs of real change following government reforms undertaken by the one-time reclusive military state. "I will obviously be looking to determine for myself what the intention is of the current government with respect to continued reforms," Clinton said from Busan in South Korea before taking off for Naypyitaw, the new capital of Myanmar.
"We and many other nations are very hopeful that these flickers of progress as President Obama called them in Bali will be ignited into a movement for change that will benefit the people if the country."
The historic two-day visit, the first by a U.S. Secretary of State in 50 years, comes in the wake of concessions by the new government of President Thein Sein. His government freed dozens of political prisoners last month following the earlier release of Nobel Peace Laureate and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
But Myanmar democracy veteran Win Tin, the 82-year-old National League for Democracy free speech campaigner who spent almost 20 years in prison, says the changes are cosmetic and will only benefit the country's ruling elite.
"We and many other nations are very hopeful that these flickers of progress as President Obama called them in Bali will be ignited into a movement for change that will benefit the people if the country."
The historic two-day visit, the first by a U.S. Secretary of State in 50 years, comes in the wake of concessions by the new government of President Thein Sein. His government freed dozens of political prisoners last month following the earlier release of Nobel Peace Laureate and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
But Myanmar democracy veteran Win Tin, the 82-year-old National League for Democracy free speech campaigner who spent almost 20 years in prison, says the changes are cosmetic and will only benefit the country's ruling elite.
