Aung San Suu Kyi said she wanted to see peace restored in Rakhine state. She had faced international condemnation for her silence Soe Zeya Tun /ReutersThe Burmese leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, said that her government would take back some of the hundreds of thousands of fugitive Rohingya Muslims, but failed to speak out against the military violence which drove them into Bangladesh. In a speech to diplomats, military officers and government officials, Ms Suu Kyi refused to accept the evidence of journalists, aid agencies, the United Nations and the Bangladeshi government, that more than 400,000 Rohingya have fled from a campaign of ethnic cleansing led by the Burmese army. She said that her government needed to “verify” the truth of what happened in Rakhine state in the far west of Burma, also known as Myanmar. “It is not the intention of the Myanmar government to apportion blame or to…

Source: The Times September 19, 2017 05:03 UTC