Tag: Aung San Suu Kyi
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Voice of the Refugee
There is almost a collective sense of spurious satisfaction in Myanmar over the refusal of the 700,000 Rohingyas to return from the squalid camps of Bangladesh. Equally, much as it hoped to start the repatriation very shortly, there is little doubt that the government in Dhaka must be sorely disappointed ~ a month before the …
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November 19, 2018 -
Will plan for Rohingya repatriation work?
Despite the concerns expressed by the UN refugee agency and other human rights groups, the repatriation could go ahead if both Bangladesh and Myanmar choose to do so
November 16, 2018 -
Another award less
It is yet another subtraction from the garland of accolades that were once reserved for the “lodestar of democracy”. That embroidery has frayed over time, to say the least. Amnesty International has eventually sized up Aung San Suu Kyi with Monday’s assertion that Myanmar’s civilian leader “is no longer a symbol of hope”. Hopeless too …
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November 14, 2018 -
‘No longer a symbol of hope’: Amnesty strips Aung San Suu Kyi of highest honour
It was the latest in a string of awards the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner lost since Myanmar's military drove 720,000 Rohingya out of the Buddhist majority country in what the United Nations has called an act of genocide.
November 13, 2018 -
Suu Kyi seeks foreign investment at Asean summit
Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday appealed to members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to invest in her country.
November 12, 2018 -
Free for now
The discharge on bail of three journalists of Myanmar’s Eleven Media group, two weeks after they had been charged under provisions of the country’s penal code that allow no bail, suggests that the country is belatedly realising there are lines it cannot cross if it wishes to prolong the fiction that it is a democracy. …
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October 28, 2018 -
Indian foreign secretary discusses bilateral cooperation with Suu Kyi
Foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale called on Myanmar State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday during his official visit to the country.
October 22, 2018 -
Suu kyi calls for peace in trilateral talks
The event also came three months after the third session of Myanmar's 21st Century Panglong Peace Conference in July.
October 15, 2018 -
Rohingya Issue: Canada revokes Suu Kyi’s honorary citizenship
The honour was bestowed on Suu Kyi in 2007. Now, she has become the first person to have her honorary Canadian citizenship revoked.
October 3, 2018 -
Work still in progress
The Kaladan Multimodal Transit Transport Project in Myanmar, entirely funded by the Union government, is still far from completion owing to a host of unresolved reasons.
September 24, 2018 -
Gut-churning narrative
It is time for Aung San Suu Kyi to end her studied silence. Time also for her to appeal to the military to end the relentless repression of Rohingyas. That horrendous repression was graphically documented on Tuesday by the voice of the comity of nations, the UN Human Rights Council. The horrific accounts of murders, …
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September 21, 2018 -
Suu Kyi defends imprisonment of Reuters journalists
During her speech at the forum, Suu Kyi admitted to the moderator that the government could have handled the Rakhine crisis better.
September 13, 2018 -
Engage insurgents, unlock NE potential
India must consider a Panglong-type conference with insurgent groups in the North East to resolve outstanding issues, and ensure that the region becomes an effective counterweight in the region's strategic sphere.
September 10, 2018 -
Myanmar in tatters
The seven-year jail sentence awarded to two Reuters journalists ~ Wa Lone (32) and Kyaw Soe Oo (28) ~ for covering the state-sponsored massacre of Rohingyas, most particularly the killing of ten Rohingyas by soldiers and Buddhist villagers at Inn Din in the state of Rakhine, signifies a travesty of justice and an unabashedly severe blow to the certitudes of press freedom.
September 4, 2018 -
Why Rakhine state is important
While the media spotlight on Rohingyas has primarily focused on religious persecution and ethnic cleansing, the strategic importance of Rakhine State of Myanmar needs to be articulated. Rakhine State, where the Rohingyas have lived predominantly since time immemorial, is considered resourceful, but politically fragile. As we know, military operations ignited an ethnic conflict that resulted …
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September 4, 2018 -
Reuters reporters jailed for seven years in Myanmar ‘state secrets’ case
Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, who have been held in Yangon's Insein prison since their arrest in December, were charged with violating the Official Secrets Act, a draconian British colonial-era law which carries a maximum sentence of 14 years.
September 3, 2018 -
Genocide reaffirmed
The United Nations has spoken and the world must listen. Never in recent years has the voice of the entity been so resounding as it was on Monday. Its intrepid presentation on the violence perpetrated by Myanmar’s security forces on the Rohingyas is a severe indictment of the country’s army chief and, albeit indirectly, of …
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August 29, 2018