When repressive states choose terror over deathListen to this articleFyodor Dostoevsky -- one of the few writers to survive state terror and return with a psychology sharp enough to indict it. This is why The Idiot dwells on the minute before death rather than death itself. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is not imprisoned because she plotted violence. At nearly 80 years old, Aung San Suu Kyi endures conditions calibrated to erode rather than execute. Like Dostoevsky before the firing squad, Aung San Suu Kyi lives inside a sentence that has not yet concluded.
