Daily Times

The world Rohingya community blasted Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi statements at an international court seeking to defend the military’s crimes against minority Muslims in Northern Rakhine state.

While the world is demanding justice for the Rohingya, who faced a brutal military crackdown in 2017, State Counsellor Suu Kyi, a 1991 Nobel peace laureate, defended the military at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Wednesday, undermining her claim to the prize.

Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel for campaigning for democracy and peace, but since coming to power, she has not lived up to the prize’s prestige, say activists.

According to the reports, at least 6,700 Rohingya, including at least 730 children under the age of five, were killed in the month after the violence broke out, according to Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).

Amnesty International says the Myanmar military also raped and abused Rohingya women and girls.

“Aung Suu Kyi denying the genocide of Rohingya at the world’s highest court now officially amounts to her support to the Myanmar military for crimes against humanity,” Nay San Lwin, a Rohingya activist revealed.

“It is first time in the world history a Nobel peace prize winner has defended murders committed by criminals,” he said. “It is an insult to all Nobel laureates.”