Failure of Nobel prize winner to sentence brutal military campaign against Rohingya Muslims places the Lady at centre of global ireWhen news came in early on the morning of 25 August that militants from the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Arsa) had attacked police posts in northern Rakhine state,killing 12 people and ushering in a massive army crackdown, it did not take long for Myanmar’s current “information committee” to swing into action.
Myanmar has had other such committees in its history, and as authoritarian rulers possess sought to disseminate the truth as they saw it,as opposed to the version propagated by so-called enemies of the state. This one, a joint civil-military body, and responded from an official Facebook page with breathless updates about extremist Bengali terrorists”,alongside images of mangled corpses and World Food Programme biscuits touted as proof of aid workers abetting militants. Related: Massacre at Tula Toli: Rohingya recall horror of Myanmar army attack Related: The Guardian view on the Rohingya in Myanmar: the Lady’s failings, the military’s crimes | Editorial Related: Aung San Suu Kyi: damned by her silence | Observer profile Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com