Aung San Suu Kyi has set out plans for a new humanitarian project to enable Myanmar’s Rakhine state to emerge as a peaceful and developed region, which a close adviser said showed her determination to fix the country’s refugee crisis. Suu Kyi said in a televised address on Thursday evening that she would invite aid organisations, business leaders and civil society to take part in the initiative, which aims to defuse the violence that has caused 536,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee from Rakhine State to Bangladesh in the past two months. Representatives of Suu Kyi in Myanmar could not be reached to confirm the adviser’s comments. The United Nations has called the violence in Myanmar a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing”, and the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Suu Kyi has been widely criticised for failing to take action to stop it. But she really does,” Suu Kyi’s adviser told reporters.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 13, 2017 16:41 UTC