Showing posts with label Boris Johnson. Show all posts
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Sunday, February 14, 2021

Boris Johnson condemns Myanmar coup, but is silent on genocide

MIDDLE EAST EYE
Peter Oborne
12 February 2021

British inaction in the face of the Rohingya slaughter shows, yet again, that atrocities against voiceless Muslims count for little or nothing in the chanceries of the West 

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks in London on 10 February 2021 (AFP)


Within hours of last week’s Myanmar coup d’etat, the denunciations came pouring in. Britain began considering new sanctions. US president Joe Biden pledged action against the military leaders who had directed the coup, which dislodged Myanmar’s Nobel-prize-winning leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.

In London, the British Foreign Office hauled in Myanmar Ambassador U Kyaw Zwar Minn, citing the need for “a peaceful return to democracy”. Prime Minister Boris Johnson condemned the “unlawful imprisonment” of Aung San Suu Kyi.