Comments to Washington Post Letter on the plight of the Rohingya
Today, I came across a letter to editor in the Washington Post. Here below are my comments which got posted in the comments area of the paper.
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Mr. Lex Rieffel's letter seemingly tries to make excuses for Mrs. Suu Kyi. It ignores the fundamental fact that with leadership comes responsibility in which Suu Kyi has miserably failed. If she is not ready for that task, she should consider stepping down.
True that military has ruled apartheid Myanmar for more than 50 years and still continues to control the security apparatus of the country. But facts are the country is no longer run by military but by an NLD-led government under Suu Kyi.
When it comes to Rohingya people, her attitude has not been helpful at all to restore their rights to live as equals in Myanmar where they are born and raised. She has tried to deny their very existence (which is a sign of genocide, as experts would tell us); the R-term for the Rohingya by which the victims identify themselves is an unacceptable term to her. What an audacity denying rights of a people to self-identify itself!
Like President Trump of the USA vis-à-vis Charlottesville fascist rally and the violence that ensued there, Suu Kyi has evaded taking responsibility for the Rohingya plight, and worse yet, tried to blame 'all sides' for the troubles since 2012. Her government consistently won't allow international/ U.N. team to investigate allegations of serious human rights violations. What do such activities speak of if not hiding the crimes against humanity and ugly Myanmarism of which Rohingya and other minorities are victims in Suu Kyi's Myanmar? If she is a genuine leader, she ought to behave like a leader and not an ultra-Bamar nationalist, a.k.a. fascist, whose focus is narrow Myanmarism and not what is required to unify a divided country like Burma.
Let her implement the recommendations of the Kofi Annan report recently submitted, starting with restoring citizenship rights of the affected people.
Mr. Lex Rieffel's letter miserably fails to address the reality that is faced by the persecuted Rohingya and offers no solution to the problem. I am also concerned about his remarks of so-called intractability of the Rohingya problem and his conclusion that it may be impossible to resolve the Rohingya problem until the civil war pitting scores of non-Muslim ethnic minorities against the military, uninterrupted since independence in 1948, is ended.
I am simply disappointed with the quality of fellowship within the Brookings Institution. It is really shallow!!!
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Mr. Lex Rieffel's letter seemingly tries to make excuses for Mrs. Suu Kyi. It ignores the fundamental fact that with leadership comes responsibility in which Suu Kyi has miserably failed. If she is not ready for that task, she should consider stepping down.
True that military has ruled apartheid Myanmar for more than 50 years and still continues to control the security apparatus of the country. But facts are the country is no longer run by military but by an NLD-led government under Suu Kyi.
When it comes to Rohingya people, her attitude has not been helpful at all to restore their rights to live as equals in Myanmar where they are born and raised. She has tried to deny their very existence (which is a sign of genocide, as experts would tell us); the R-term for the Rohingya by which the victims identify themselves is an unacceptable term to her. What an audacity denying rights of a people to self-identify itself!
Like President Trump of the USA vis-à-vis Charlottesville fascist rally and the violence that ensued there, Suu Kyi has evaded taking responsibility for the Rohingya plight, and worse yet, tried to blame 'all sides' for the troubles since 2012. Her government consistently won't allow international/ U.N. team to investigate allegations of serious human rights violations. What do such activities speak of if not hiding the crimes against humanity and ugly Myanmarism of which Rohingya and other minorities are victims in Suu Kyi's Myanmar? If she is a genuine leader, she ought to behave like a leader and not an ultra-Bamar nationalist, a.k.a. fascist, whose focus is narrow Myanmarism and not what is required to unify a divided country like Burma.
Let her implement the recommendations of the Kofi Annan report recently submitted, starting with restoring citizenship rights of the affected people.
Mr. Lex Rieffel's letter miserably fails to address the reality that is faced by the persecuted Rohingya and offers no solution to the problem. I am also concerned about his remarks of so-called intractability of the Rohingya problem and his conclusion that it may be impossible to resolve the Rohingya problem until the civil war pitting scores of non-Muslim ethnic minorities against the military, uninterrupted since independence in 1948, is ended.
I am simply disappointed with the quality of fellowship within the Brookings Institution. It is really shallow!!!
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