Myanmar

Genocide in Burma

Source: Washington Monthly by Joshua Kurlantzick Of all the ethnic, racial, and religious minorities in the world, wrote the Economist last year, the Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic group, may well be the most persecuted people on the planet. Today nearly two million Rohingya live in western Myanmar and in Bangladesh. […]

‘No-one told me I was going to be interviewed by a Muslim’: Moment Burma democracy heroine Suu Kyi lost her cool with BBC’s Mishal Husain after being quizzed over violence towards Muslim minority

By SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE FOR THE DAILY MAIL PUBLISHED: 23:51 GMT, 24 March 2016 She is a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and a beacon of saintly integrity in the West who remained under house arrest for 15 years in her native Burma. However, there is another side to Burmese politician Aung […]

Aung San Suu Kyi is a bust

There was so much hope for her as a moral leader in Myanmar, but power (or politics) has changed her ZAFAR SOBHAN 03.23.15 TOMAS MUNITA/THE NEW YORK TIMES In the face of scathing criticism from international human rights groups, supporters of the sainted Aung San Suu Kyi are left with […]