Aung San Suu Kyi, state counselor and foreign affairs minister and Myanmar's de-facto leader In Brief
The visit by Myanmar’s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi to Rakhine State failed to stem anger and frustration felt in the strife-torn state or in neighbouring Bangladesh, where more than 600,000 Rohingya have fled to over the past ten weeks.
During her one-day visit, Suu Kyi met both Rohingya and Rakhine villagers, telling them to “maintain peace” and “not to quarrel,” reported local media.
Ranjon Francis Rozario, assistant executive director of Caritas Bangladesh, criticized Suu Kyi for what he sees is “a visible lack of sympathy for the Rohingya”.
“Suu Kyi is a Nobel laureate and she must take concrete actions to end violence against Rohingya and to repatriate them peacefully,” he said. “Instead, she sums up ‘Rohingya genocide’ into a silly term like ‘quarrel’”, Rozario said.