EU’s Mogherini ‘Encouraged’ by Rohingya Talks with Suu Kyi
TEHRAN – The EU’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini on Monday hailed “extremely encouraging” talks with Aung San Suu Kyi on the Rohingya crisis, welcoming steps towards the repatriation of Muslims driven from Myanmar into Bangladesh. But her optimistic tone appeared sharply at odds with the realities on the ground in a crisis that has […]
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi Condemns All Rights Violations in Rakhine State
TEHRAN – Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi condemned all human rights violations on Tuesday and said anyone responsible for abuses in troubled Rakhine State would face the law, and she felt deeply for the suffering of everyone caught up in conflict there. In her first address to the nation since attacks by Rohingya Muslim […]
Noble Prize winner Suu Kyi ‘US-Western darling’
TEHRAN – US columnist Stephen Lendman says that “Suu Kyi is a fraud and a US- Western darling.” “She reminds me in some ways of Mother Theresa, more myth than ‘saint of the gutters’”, Lendman tells the Mehr News. Following is the text of the interview: Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar are in a disastrous situation. […]