Aung San Suu Kyi meets with Hungary’s Orbán to lament their “growing Muslim populations”

Vox
By Alex Ward
@AlexWardVox
alex.ward@vox.com  
Jun 7, 2019

This continues the Nobel Peace Prize winner’s fall from grace.

Aung San Suu Kyi and Viktor Orbán meet in Hungary on June 5, 2019. MTI/Miniszterelnöki Sajtóiroda

Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, who was once lauded internationally for her efforts to bring democracy to Myanmar, made a rare trip to Europe this week.

But the civilian leader’s purpose this time wasn’t to champion human rights and democracy. It was to meet with far-right Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán to lament the “continuously growing Muslim populations” in both of their countries.

Suu Kyi, Orban agree on challenge of ‘growing Muslim populations’

COCONUTS YANGON

By Coconuts Yangon 

Jun 6, 2019 | Yangon time 

Aung San Suu Kyi meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Obran via Hungarian Government Website

Aung San Suu Kyi hasn’t been making a lot of friends in the international community over the past two years, which made it kinda surprising when she found a European leader she appears to be in lockstep with — at least, until you consider who that leader is.

Aung San Suu Kyi and Viktor Orban bonded over a mutual dislike of Muslims

QUARTZ
By Isabella Steger

Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi has long been censured in the West for her refusal to defend the rights of the Rohingya Muslim minority in her country. A recent meeting between her and Hungary’s far-right leader won’t do anything to temper those criticisms.

Suu Kyi and Viktor Orbán met yesterday (June 5) in Budapest, where the two leaders agreed that “coexistence with continuously growing Muslim populations” was a challenge for both countries, according to a statement by the Hungarian government. A statement by the Myanmar government on the meeting did not specifically refer to Muslim immigration, saying only that the two sides discussed “constructive help from Hungary to the national reconciliation efforts by the Myanmar Government and for Rakhine issue,” referring to the western region where the Rohingya population is concentrated.

Aung San Suu Kyi and Viktor Orban discuss ‘Muslim population challenge’

TRT WORLD
06-06-2019

The Burmese politician and Nobel Peace Prize winner has been slammed for her silence amid Myanmar’s genocide of Rohingya Muslims, while Orban is a fierce critic of Islam and Muslim migration to Europe.

 

Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi has become a pariah in recent years over her lack of action and silence over Myanmar’s persecution of its mainly Muslim Rohingya minority.