DAILY SABAH
AYŞE BETÜL BAL
@bal_betul
ISTANBUL
Published
20.05.2019
In this photograph taken Aug. 28, 2018, an elderly Rohingya refugee
Noor Aisha Khatun, who used to visit spiritual healers, sits inside the
family shelter in Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh. (AP Photo)
"To view opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundations of democracy."
Those were the exact words Aung San Suu Kyi, the de-facto leader of Burma, or what has been come to known as Myanmar, wrote in her book "Letters from Burma."
In the book, the Nobel-laureate leader of one of the world's most ethnically-divided countries tells her story as an activist and a citizen, while describing her country with delightful details from its natural beauties to the beauty of the people's diversity. The book, although written by a politician, does not actually seem like a political writing at first, but rather it describes the daily life in Burma with serene details, aspects of Buddhist culture and ceremonies in a country home to a Buddhist majority of 90 percent, but also home to some 4 percent Christians and 4 percent Muslims.
She also mentions her days under house arrest or other similar days in which she proudly raised her voice against human rights violations directed at her people by the military junta.
Link:https://www.dailysabah.com/asia/2019/05/20/rohingya-muslims-forgotten-downtrodden-and-now-victims-of-religious-cleansing
Those were the exact words Aung San Suu Kyi, the de-facto leader of Burma, or what has been come to known as Myanmar, wrote in her book "Letters from Burma."
In the book, the Nobel-laureate leader of one of the world's most ethnically-divided countries tells her story as an activist and a citizen, while describing her country with delightful details from its natural beauties to the beauty of the people's diversity. The book, although written by a politician, does not actually seem like a political writing at first, but rather it describes the daily life in Burma with serene details, aspects of Buddhist culture and ceremonies in a country home to a Buddhist majority of 90 percent, but also home to some 4 percent Christians and 4 percent Muslims.
She also mentions her days under house arrest or other similar days in which she proudly raised her voice against human rights violations directed at her people by the military junta.
Link:https://www.dailysabah.com/asia/2019/05/20/rohingya-muslims-forgotten-downtrodden-and-now-victims-of-religious-cleansing
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