Myanmar treatment of Rohingyas

Pence takes Suu Kyi to task

The violence which drove 700,000 Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar into Bangladesh was "without excuse", US Vice President Mike Pence told Aung San Suu Kyi in stinging comments yesterday.

On the sidelines of a summit in Singapore Pence piled the pressure on Myanmar's de facto leader, calling for an explanation of the jailing of two Reuters journalists over their coverage of the crisis.

Suu Kyi has seen her reputation as a rights defender shredded by her refusal to speak up for the Rohingya, a stateless group reviled in the Buddhist-majority country.

She has already had an Amnesty International honour revoked this week and faced sharp words from Malaysia’s premier at a usually tepid meeting of Southeast nations in Singapore.

In direct marks as he sat next to Suu Kyi, Pence condemned the “violence and persecution” against the Rohingya as “without excuse”.

 

 

 

 

Myanmar treatment of Rohingyas

Pence takes Suu Kyi to task

The violence which drove 700,000 Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar into Bangladesh was without excuse, US Vice President Mike Pence told Aung San Suu Kyi in stinging comments yesterday. On the sidelines of a summit in Singapore Pence piled the pressure on Myanmars de facto leader, calling for an explanation of the jailing of two Reuters journalists over their coverage of the crisis. Suu Kyi has seen her reputation as a rights defender shredded by her refusal to speak up for the Rohingya, a stateless group reviled in the Buddhist-majority country. She has already had an Amnesty International honour revoked this week and faced sharp words from Malaysias premier at a usually tepid meeting of Southeast nations in Singapore. In direct marks as he sat next to Suu Kyi, Pence condemned the violence and persecution against the Rohingya as without excuse.