Post by Soutpeel on Apr 6, 2017 12:31:18 GMT 7
Aung San Suu Kyi Denies Ethnic Cleansing of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims
Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi said the country’s treatment of the Rohingya Muslim minority does not amount to ethnic cleansing.
"I don't think there is ethnic cleansing going on,” Suu Kyi said during an exclusive interview with the BBC, claiming that the term was “too strong an expression” to describe the government’s treatment of the group.
The Rohingya are a stateless Muslim minority numbering about 1.1 million who mostly reside in the country’s western Rakhine state, where they have suffered decades of persecution.
More than 120,000 were displaced by deadly violence that began in 2012, and most Rohingya still live in squalid displacement camps where they are denied proper health care, education and basic freedoms. Other Muslims throughout the state have also since been denied freedom of movement and basic government services on the pretext of heightened security measures.
time.com/4728153/aung-san-suu-kyi-ethnic-cleansing-rohingya/?xid=homepage
Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi said the country’s treatment of the Rohingya Muslim minority does not amount to ethnic cleansing.
"I don't think there is ethnic cleansing going on,” Suu Kyi said during an exclusive interview with the BBC, claiming that the term was “too strong an expression” to describe the government’s treatment of the group.
The Rohingya are a stateless Muslim minority numbering about 1.1 million who mostly reside in the country’s western Rakhine state, where they have suffered decades of persecution.
More than 120,000 were displaced by deadly violence that began in 2012, and most Rohingya still live in squalid displacement camps where they are denied proper health care, education and basic freedoms. Other Muslims throughout the state have also since been denied freedom of movement and basic government services on the pretext of heightened security measures.
time.com/4728153/aung-san-suu-kyi-ethnic-cleansing-rohingya/?xid=homepage
