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April 7, 2017

Burmese Leader Aung San Suu Kyi Denies Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya
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Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi has denied that members of the Rohingya
minority group have experienced ethnic cleansing. The remarks came in an
interview with BBC correspondent Fergal Keane.

Fergal Keane: "Do you ever worry that you will be remembered as the
champion of human rights, the Nobel laureate, who failed to stand up to
ethnic cleansing in her own country?"

Aung San Suu Kyi: "No, because I don't think there's ethnic cleansing
going on. I think ethnic cleansing is too strong an expression to use
for what's happening."

Fergal Keane: "It's what I think I saw there, I have to say."

Amnesty International has accused the Burmese military of murdering,
raping and torturing Rohingya civilians in an ongoing campaign the human
rights group says may amount to crimes against humanity. At least 20,000
Rohingyas have been forced to flee into Bangladesh to escape the
violence.


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