Rohingya violence is 'Muslims killing Muslims' not ethnic cleansing, says Aung San Suu Kyi

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Rohingya violence is 'Muslims killing Muslims' not ethnic cleansing, says Aung San Suu Kyi


Leader is asked if she would be remembered as the Nobel Peace Prize winner who ignored ethnic cleansing in her own country

• Jon Sharman
• 4 days ago
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Burma leader Aung San Suu Kyi has said ethnic cleansing was too strong a term to describe what was happening in the country's Muslim-majority Rakhine region, claiming violence there was partly down to “Muslims killing Muslims”.

The UN has launched an investigation into allegations of Burmese security forces killing, raping and torturing Rohingya Muslims.

A report issued by the body earlier this year, based on interviews with 220 Rohingya among 75,000 who have fled to Bangladesh since October, accused Burma’s security forces of having committed mass killings and gang rapes in a campaign that “very likely” amounted to crimes again humanity and possibly ethnic cleansing.

“I don't think there is ethnic cleansing going on,” Ms Suu Kyi told the BBC in an interview when asked if she would be remembered as the Nobel Peace Prize winner who ignored ethnic cleansing in her own country.

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“I think ethnic cleansing is too strong an expression to use for what is happening,” said Ms Suu Kyi who is facing international criticism for her government's handling of a crisis in Rakhine. “I think there is a lot of hostility there—it is Muslims killing Muslims as well, if they think they are co-operating with the authorities.”

Attacks on Burma border guard posts in October last year by a previously unknown insurgent group ignited the biggest crisis of Ms Suu Kyi's year in power, with more than 75,000 Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh in the ensuing army crackdown.

The military denied the UN's claims, saying it was engaged in a legitimate counterinsurgency operation, and a spokesman for Ms Suu Kyi called them “exaggerated”.

“What we are trying to go for is reconciliation not condemnation,” Ms Suu Kyi told the BBC.

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When asked whether perceptions of her as an amalgam of Indian independence hero Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa of Calcutta were incorrect as she was more similar to former British leader Margaret Thatcher, she said:

“Well no. I am just a politician. I am not quite like Margaret Thatcher, no. But on the other hand, I am no Mother Teresa either.”


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[Hamza913]

If someone could assassinate this witch that would be great.

 

[Flynn Swagmire]

Pathetic Burmese liar...

 

[Kabira]

as the Nobel Peace Prize winner who ignored ethnic cleansing in her own country

Nobel peace prize is handed like candy to muslim killers

 

[Steve781]

I once got a warning for saying refugees were responsible for most of the rapes in Sweden. Now the mods are turning a blind eye when posters with jihadist flags in their avatars call for leaders to be assassinated.

 

[Hamza913]

I once got a warning for saying refugees were responsible for most of the rapes in Sweden. Now the mods are turning a blind eye when posters with jihadist flags in their avatars call for leaders to be assassinated.

I don't get a warning because I want a hag who supports genocide gone.

Nothing wrong with that. It's like saying that calling for Hitlers death would be wrong. It's an inconceivable notion.

 

[Saho]

She's a psychopath, how can she be so hidden from the public unlike other dictators who are known to the world?

 

[terry5]

I once got a warning for saying refugees were responsible for most of the rapes in Sweden. Now the mods are turning a blind eye when posters with jihadist flags in their avatars call for leaders to be assassinated.

did you get smacked around as a child or just born dumb ?
Which jihadi flag lol ?

 

[Hamza913]

did you get smacked around as a child or just born dumb ?
Which jihadi flag lol ?

Think he's talking about me.

Most people don't know what a shahada is so its fine.

 

[Dark-Destroyer]

now a days they hand out nobel peace prizes to even animals that belong in the jungle as we can see from her picture above

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

Bloody Kunt.

 

[kasper95]

Nobel peace prize is handed like candy to muslim killers

You guys make it religious issue than making it a humanitarian issue,thats the reason rohingyas dont get attention.muslims are hurting ronhingya muslims by making it religious issue.

 

[KediKesenFare3]

She's right, in a sense. Neighbouring BD with over 170 million people is doing nothing to safe the Rohingyas from rape and death. Aren't Rohingya Muslims closely related to the people of Bangladesh in terms of language and culture?

In addition, they could use this aggression as a pretext to seize fertile lands from Myanmar but yet, they are doing nothing. How can a Bangladeshi really defend the current leadership of BD? How can they be proud of this witch called Hasina?

 

[T-Rex]

She's right, in a sense. Neighbouring BD with over 170 million people is doing nothing to safe the Rohingyas from rape and death. Aren't Rohingya Muslims closely related to the people of Bangladesh in terms of language and culture?

In addition, they could use this aggression as a pretext to seize fertile lands from Myanmar but yet, they are doing nothing. How can a Bangladeshi really defend the current leadership of BD? How can they be proud of this witch called Hasina?

Buddy, we have got an un-elected regime posing as a democratic government. She's in power with the help of the crooks who are in charge of the weapons meant to defend the state. Recently she visited London and she and her minions had to use the rear entrance of the hotel during her entire stay in London because the BD community was showing her shoes and rotten eggs for robbing the democratic system which was in place before her regime. She has been ruling without being voted by the people. During the polls her thugs take over the polling stations and cast the votes for the people while her minions in the Election Commission make sure that rigging goes on smoothly. After the election drama they certify it as the most 'free and fair election' in the history of mankind. Many of the thugs that work for this system are paid RAW operatives. She is as democratic as the despot in Syria. Do you think a ruler with this kind of background can afford to antagonize a neighbouring state? I think I've said enough, you should be able to work out the rest.

 

[BlackIndian]

Sung Mohtarma needs to learn the art of lying from Modi.