Aung San Suu Kyi will focus attention on the "Rakhine terrorist attacks," her spokesman said, after announcing Wednesday the she will skip an upcoming UN General Assembly session in New York later this month.
Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, is facing global outcry over Myanmar security forces' fierce response to a series of Rohingya militant attacks in the western state of Rakhine. The military's brutal counteroffensive — which has been described by the UN as "ethnic cleansing" — has left hundreds dead and forced around 370,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee into neighboring Bangladesh in just the past three weeks.
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Attacks by an insurgent Rohingya group on police outposts in late August has set off a wave of violence across Rakhine state. Next to the significant human cost of the conflict, thousands of homes and whole Rohingya villages have been burned down. Myanmar authorities deny that their forces have been setting the fires.
Suu Kyi — who is not the country's president in name but effectively serves as leader — has refused to condemn the military's violent crackdown, which in turn has led to calls that she be stripped of her peace prize. Full story...
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Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, is facing global outcry over Myanmar security forces' fierce response to a series of Rohingya militant attacks in the western state of Rakhine. The military's brutal counteroffensive — which has been described by the UN as "ethnic cleansing" — has left hundreds dead and forced around 370,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee into neighboring Bangladesh in just the past three weeks.
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Attacks by an insurgent Rohingya group on police outposts in late August has set off a wave of violence across Rakhine state. Next to the significant human cost of the conflict, thousands of homes and whole Rohingya villages have been burned down. Myanmar authorities deny that their forces have been setting the fires.
Suu Kyi — who is not the country's president in name but effectively serves as leader — has refused to condemn the military's violent crackdown, which in turn has led to calls that she be stripped of her peace prize. Full story...
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