Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Cancels U.N. Trip Amid Outcry Over Rohingya Slaughter
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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Cancels U.N. Trip Amid Outcry Over Rohingya Slaughter
A chorus of international leaders and rights groups, including the office of the top United Nations human rights official, have denounced the attacks as ethnic cleansing — some have called it genocide —
and castigated Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi over what they describe as her indifference.
In an open letter to Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi published last week, Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa said, "My dear sister: If the political
price of your ascension to the highest office in Myanmar is your silence, the price is surely too steep." Tess Felder contributed reporting.
An announcement of the cancellation on Wednesday from the office of the leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, came less than a week before the
annual gathering in New York of leaders from the 193-member General Assembly, the world’s largest forum for international diplomacy.
13, 2017
Facing a storm of global criticism over an ethnic slaughter in her home country, the Nobel laureate who
is Myanmar’s de facto leader has canceled her planned visit to the United Nations General Assembly.
The country’s majority party introduced a bill in Parliament in 2016
and created a new post for her as "state counselor," which some analysts have compared to prime minister.
Her decision to abandon the visit came amid an uproar over deadly attacks by the Myanmar
military on the Buddhist-majority country’s population of Rohingya Muslims.
A chorus of international leaders and rights groups, including the office of the top United Nations human rights official, have denounced the attacks as ethnic cleansing — some have called it genocide —
and castigated Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi over what they describe as her indifference.
In an open letter to Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi published last week, Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa said, "My dear sister: If the political
price of your ascension to the highest office in Myanmar is your silence, the price is surely too steep." Tess Felder contributed reporting.
An announcement of the cancellation on Wednesday from the office of the leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, came less than a week before the
annual gathering in New York of leaders from the 193-member General Assembly, the world’s largest forum for international diplomacy.
13, 2017
Facing a storm of global criticism over an ethnic slaughter in her home country, the Nobel laureate who
is Myanmar’s de facto leader has canceled her planned visit to the United Nations General Assembly.
The country’s majority party introduced a bill in Parliament in 2016
and created a new post for her as "state counselor," which some analysts have compared to prime minister.
Her decision to abandon the visit came amid an uproar over deadly attacks by the Myanmar
military on the Buddhist-majority country’s population of Rohingya Muslims.