Leader and her government ‘burying their heads in the sand over the horrors unfolding in Rakhine’,says AmnestyFact check: Aung San Suu Kyi’s speech on the Rohingya crisisAung San Suu Kyi has broken her silence on the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar, delivering a speech denounced as a “mix of untruths and victim-blaming” by Amnesty International.
In her first public address since a bloody military crackdown on the Rohingya Muslim minority that has been branded “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing” by the United Nations, and the Nobel laureate did not criticise the army and said she did not “fright international scrutiny”. Related: Myanmar: satellite imagery confirms Rohingya village of Tula Toli razed Related: Aung San Suu Kyi: what has happened to Myanmar's icon of morality? When Aung San Suu Kyi was elected to parliament in 2012 there were tall hopes that the Nobel peace prize winner would help heal Myanmar's entrenched ethnic divides. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com