Why is Suu Kyi defending the military?

Bangkok Post

Nehginpao Kipgen 

published : 6 Jan 2020
newspaper section: News

On Dec 11, Myanmar's State Counsellor-cum-Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi stood at the podium of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at the Hague and defended her country against the accusation of violating the 1948 Genocide Convention over the military's clearance operations in northern Rakhine state, which caused more than 700,000 Rohingya to flee the Southeast Asian country for Bangladesh.

UK Commissioner in Bangladesh Stresses 3-Point Rohingya Return Plan

The Irrawaddy
By Muktadir Rashid
9 July 2019

British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert Chatterton Dickson speaks at a press conference in Dhaka on Monday

DHAKA—British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert Chatterton Dickson reaffirmed a three-point plan for a permanent solution to the Rohingya crisis at a press conference on Monday, but said he looked forward to hearing more about the discussions Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held with her Chinese counterparts on the matter recently.

Top Myanmar court rejects appeal by massacre reporters.

Bangkok Post
23 Apr 2019

Detained Reuters journalists Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone are escorted by police as they leave after a court hearing in Yangon, Myanmar, Aug 20, 2018. (Reuters file photo)

NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar: Myanmar's Supreme Court rejected an appeal Tuesday by two Reuters journalists jailed for seven years each on charges linked to their reporting on the Rohingya crisis, one of the defence lawyers confirmed.

Reporters Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, have been behind bars since their arrest in December 2017 under the Official Secrets Act.