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Aung San Suu Kyi won a Nobel for fighting repression. Now she's accused of genocide

HO CHI MINH CITY — Myanmar’s iconic Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is under siege from critics around the world who say the pro-democracy Peace Prize winner is guilty of the very repression she spent decades combating.

The de facto leader of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, fought back Tuesday by calling reports of genocide against the country's Rohingya minority in Rakhine state “fake news” and the “tip of a huge iceberg of misinformation.”

Her comments during a phone call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, are Suu Kyi's first statements about the violence that erupted in northwestern Rakhine State on Aug. 25.

The Rohingya are stateless Muslims in an overwhelmingly Buddhist country that has long been hostile to their presence. There are an estimated 1 million Rohingya living in Myanmar, where they are not recognized by the government as an official group and are denied citizenship.

According to the United Nations, nearly 125,000 Rohingya have fled in recent weeks to neighboring Bangladesh, a mostly Muslim nation, to escape a military crackdown and vigilante attacks that have burned villages and killed hundreds.

The latest round of violence erupted when a group of Rohingya militants attacked police outposts and a military base, killing a dozen officers. The military responded with coordinated attacks and widespread arson, according to numerous accounts from fleeing civilians.

Human Rights Watch, a New York-based rights organization, has analyzed satellite data from Rakhine state that it says shows the burning of several villages.

Suu Kyi’s comments were posted in a readout of a call on the Facebook page of the office of Myanmar's state counselor, her official title. She said "fake" news and photographs of the crisis in Rakhine state were being used to promote the interest of “terrorists.”

She also claimed during the call that her government was working to protect the rights of the Rohingya.

"We know very well, more than most, what it means to be deprived of human rights and democratic protection," Suu Kyi said. "So we make sure that all the people in our country are entitled to protection of their rights as well as, the right to, and not just political but social and humanitarian defense."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/wor ... 637110001/

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So how is it suddently all her fault, when claiming this at the same time???

The Rohingya are stateless Muslims in an overwhelmingly Buddhist country that has long been hostile to their presence.

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Aung San Suu Kyi complicit in Rohingya 'ethnic cleansing' in Myanmar, MPs told






Aung San Suu Kyi is implicated in the “ethnic cleansing” of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar, UK MPs heard on Tuesday.

Giving evidence before a parliamentary committee, Human Rights Watch (HRW), Burma Campaign UK and other rights groups urged the government and the international community to see the Nobel laureate as “part of the problem”. They said the bloody military crackdown in Rakhine state had left “thousands” of Rohingya Muslims dead, with others subjected to “appalling rape”, and 600,000 people driven from their homes.

HRW, which has been documenting sexual violence against Rohingya by the Burmese military, attacked the Foreign Office and the Department for International Development (DfID) for failing to send specialist teams to speak to victims who had fled to Bangladesh.
'When they began slaughtering us we ran for our lives': Rohingya trapped inside Myanmar
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The International Rescue Committee estimated there were 75,000 victims of gender-based violence, and that 45% of the Rohingya women attending safe spaces in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh had reported such attacks.

The witnesses giving evidence were asked if the international community had got it wrong in believing Myanmar’s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, to be a prisoner in her own country or whether she was complicit in the atrocities against a population described as the “most persecuted minority” in the world. The UN and Theresa May have said the military campaign is a textbook example of “ethnic cleansing”.

“Yes, I’m afraid she is complicit,” said Mark Farmaner, director of Burma Campaign UK. He said the Nobel peace prize winner had “authoritarian tendencies”, and used repressive laws to restrict freedom of expression, pointing out that she had refused to free political prisoners, one aged 14.

“On several issues she’s part of the problem, although a lot of the international community would also say she’s the best hope and part of the possible solution,” Farmaner told MPs.

“She has kept political prisoners in jail. Although she hasn’t the power to stop their arrests, she has the power to release them – including a 14-year-old recently jailed who was arrested by the Burmese army. It is something we are going to have to come to terms with, as well as the fact that we have the military controlling part of the government. She can repeal repressive laws, she has powers to improve human rights. She’s choosing not to.”

Farmaner said Aung San Suu Kyi had defended the military operation and that the “myth” of a political coup was being used as an excuse to do nothing.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-deve ... r-mps-told

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Thank you Tog Wajale for bringing this song to our attention. I always loved Momona's songs but this is my first time to hear this one. Superb music as always!!

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Nobel prize winner Myanmar leader’s image removed from Canadian Museum for Human Rights

There were calls to take any mention of the Nobel Peace Prize winner out of the Winnipeg museum because of the humanitarian crisis faced by the country’s minority Muslim Rohingya population.

Angela Cassie, who’s with the museum, says Suu Kyi will be removed from the museum’s timeline of human rights defenders and milestones.

https://globalnews.ca/news/4365490/myan ... an-rights/

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Believe me Issu doesn’t give a hoot about the westerns,and that’s why they send midget Meles to attack and stub him in the back.
They are waiting for him to die so they can lay their hands in the oil/gold/gas/potash sitting underground under Eri soil.
It’s obvious Abiy is another maid who’ll sell his country for power.

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Believe me Issu doesn’t give a hoot about the westerns,and that’s why they send midget Meles to attack and stub him in the back.
They are waiting for him to die so they can lay their hands in the oil/gold/gas/potash sitting underground under Eri soil.
It’s obvious Abiy is another maid who’ll sell his country for power.

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Haha! Now the Nobel Peace Prize is conveniently pegged to be about how you run your nation.

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Haha! Now the Nobel Peace Prize is conveniently pegged to be about how you run your nation.