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Malala Yousafzai Criticizes Aung San Suu Kyi Over Violence On Myanmar's Rohingya
Malala Yousafzai, known as just Malala, has joined other human rights activists and officials in publicly criticizing Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's effective leader, for the treatment of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar.
More than 73,000 Rohingya have crossed into Bangladesh from Myanmar in the latest wave of violence by the Myanmar military, spurred by an attack from a group of Rohingya militants on a military post on Aug. 25.
The brutal treatment of Myanmar's Rohingya is longstanding — they've been called the most persecuted minority group on the planet.
A Pakistani education activist, Malala won the Nobel Peace Prize for her promotion of girls' education. She took to Twitter Sunday to criticize Aung San Suu Kyi, a fellow Peace Prize recipient.
The Rohingya people live in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 09 2017, @08:07AM (1 child)
They are an ETHNIC minority.
You can persecute a person for more than just their religion. Just look at the Kurds in Turkey.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday September 10 2017, @07:07AM
I wrote "Were they being persecuted exclusively because of their ethnicity". You answered with another factoid.
> Kurds in Turkey
You mean Kurds in Kurdistan.
Rohingya is persecuted because they want their own paki satellite state and because they got arms from English in WWII and used it against their own fellow countrymen. There might some abstract hate for muslims into that, but it is on you to prove that in light of the other ethnic groups around there.
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