{"id":393,"date":"2017-04-10T11:42:54","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T11:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arakanwatch.org\/?p=393"},"modified":"2017-04-10T12:37:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T12:37:37","slug":"no-ethnic-cleansing-in-arakan-state-suu-kyi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arakanwatch.org\/en\/no-ethnic-cleansing-in-arakan-state-suu-kyi\/","title":{"rendered":"No Ethnic Cleansing in Arakan State: Suu Kyi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AW Reporter :<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Burma\u00a0leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi denies ethnic cleansing on Rohinyga Muslims in Arakan State of Burma. As so according her it was too strong a term to describe what was happening in northern Arakan State, the BBC reported on last Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think there is ethnic cleansing going on,\u201d State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi told the BBC in an interview when asked if she would be remembered as the Nobel Peace Prize winner who ignored ethnic cleansing in her own country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think ethnic cleansing is too strong an expression to use for what is happening,\u201d said the state counselor who is facing international criticism for her government\u2019s handling of a crisis in the Arakan region.<\/p>\n<p>Attacks on\u00a0Burma\u00a0border guard posts in October last year by a previously unknown insurgent group ignited the biggest crisis of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi\u2019s year in power, with about 90,000 Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh in the ensuing army crackdown.<\/p>\n<p>A United Nations report issued earlier this year said\u00a0Burma\u2019s security forces had committed mass killings and gang rapes against Rohingya during their what they called Clearance campaign \u00a0against the insurgents, which may amount to crimes against humanity.The military has denied the accusations, saying it was engaged in a legitimate counterinsurgency operation.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 176px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-393-1\" width=\"176\" height=\"144\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/arakanwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/VID-20170406-WA0007.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/arakanwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/VID-20170406-WA0007.mp4\">http:\/\/arakanwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/VID-20170406-WA0007.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;It is not just a matter of ethnic cleansing,\u201d she said. \u201cIt is a matter of people on different sides of a divide, and this divide we are trying to close up as best as possible and not to widen it further.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we are trying to go for is reconciliation, not condemnation,&#8221; \u00a0&#8220;It is Muslims killing Muslims as well&#8221; , Aung San Suu Kyi told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by the BBC whether perceptions of her as an amalgam of Indian independence hero Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa of Calcutta were incorrect as she was more similar to former British leader Margaret Thatcher, she said, \u201cWell no. I am just a politician. I am not quite like Margaret Thatcher, no. But on the other hand, I am no Mother Teresa either.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[BBC News]<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AW Reporter : Burma\u00a0leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi denies ethnic cleansing on Rohinyga Muslims in Arakan State of Burma. As so according her it was too strong a term to describe what was happening in northern Arakan State, the BBC reported on last Wednesday. \u201cI don\u2019t think there is ethnic cleansing going on,\u201d State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arakanwatch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arakanwatch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arakanwatch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arakanwatch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arakanwatch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/arakanwatch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/arakanwatch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arakanwatch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arakanwatch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arakanwatch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arakanwatch.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}