His intervention — a rebuke — was an open letter to de facto Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi, condemning her refusal to call out the horror endured by the minority Rohingya Muslims in her country. It is to face that most enduring and insidious human sentiment: bigotry. Now I want to ask Aung San Suu Kyi: Please use your liberty to promote ours." During earlier flareups, Suu Kyi said ethnic cleansing was "too strong" a term. Suu Kyi doesn't have the power to order a halt to the military's operations.

Source: CBC News September 08, 2017 16:18 UTC