Showing posts with label Anti-Rohingya Rhetoric. Show all posts
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Saturday, November 7, 2020

As Suu Kyi Denies Genocide, Opponents Up Anti-Rohingya Rhetoric

Courthouse News Service
“The party runs the risk of losing its main prop.”Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi makes a hand gesture while wearing a face shield, mask and gloves during a September 8 flag-raising ceremony to mark the first day of election campaigning at the National League for Democracy party’s temporary headquarters in Naypyitaw. Myanmar holds a general election on November 8. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)


NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar (AFP) — As Aung San Suu Kyi is vilified internationally for denying genocide against the Rohingya, her opponents in Sunday’s Myanmar election are ramping up the rhetoric against the Muslim minority.

There was global revulsion at military-backed operations in 2017 that saw hundreds of thousands of people flee burning villages into the squalor of refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh.