TEHRAN, March 18 - Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been grilled by world leaders over her inaction regarding the persecution of the minority Rohingya Muslims in her country.
TEHRAN,Young Journalists Club (YJC) - Suu Kyi has been under intense global criticism for her public rejection of a brutal military crackdown that has forced nearly 700,000 of the Muslim-minority Rohingya to flee Myanmar’s Rakhine State for Bangladesh since August last year.
That campaign of state-sponsored violence originally began in late 2016.
Suu Kyi, who arrived in the Australian city of Sydney on Saturday to take part in a three-day special meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), was ostracized by other ASEAN members for her brazen denial of atrocities against the minority Rohingya community in Myanmar, which the United Nations says bears the “hallmarks of genocide.
The Rohingya crisis has sparked rare tensions within the bloc, with members demanding outside intervention to end the crisis.
The ASEAN members, namely, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, who used to take pride in the existing political harmony in the group, have been at loggerheads with Myanmar over the mishandling of the Rohingya crisis.
Malaysia and Bangladesh, who have borne the brunt of the problems resulting from the Rohingya’s displacement, have been most vocal in their criticism of Myanmar. The two Muslim-majority countries have taken a pincer approach against their Buddhist-dominant neighbor, exerting increased pressure to end the crisis.
Source: Press TV
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