Foreign secretary Boris Johnson has sharpened criticism of Myanmar’s state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi over the Rohingya issue, doubting if she understood the “full horror” of the crisis that led the UN to describe it as “a textbook case of ethnic cleansing”. After meeting Suu Kyi in Yangon, Johnson told BBC: “To be honest, I don’t really think she understands the full horror. I don’t think she has been up in a helicopter to see what we have seen. It quoted Johnson as expressing to her his “deep concern” about the future of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Before travelling to Myanmar, Johnson visited a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh and met Prime Minster Sheikh Hasina.

Source: Hindustan Times February 12, 2018 11:26 UTC