Monday, November 28, 2016

Suu Kyi inaction over Rohingya atrocities a cowardly response



Suu Kyi inaction over Rohingya atrocities a cowardly response

Myanmar continues to commit atrocities against the Rohingya while Aung San Suu Kyi continues to look the other way.

There are reports of children being thrown into burning buildings and woman being raped. And a reporter was arrested for reporting these crimes. More than 3,000 Rohingya have fled their homes, some of them to neighbouring Bangladesh, where the UN’s top refugee official has labelled the Myanmar military’s actions ethnic cleansing.

For years I’ve been arguing that Suu Kyi is nothing but a hypocrite and a coward and now she is window dressing for a government that is clearly run by a murderous military. Whatever international economic sanctions that were removed from the “reform” government should be immediately reinstated.

Eric Bahrt