Suu Kyi
Myanmar court allows Suu Kyi's 2-week detention, 400 others freed
A Myanmar court has granted a police request to detain ousted leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi until Feb. 15 for illegally importing and using communications equipment, members of her National League for Democracy said Wednesday.
Citizens in Myanmar protest coup with noise barrage
Scores of people in Myanmar’s largest city honked car horns and banged on pots and pans on Tuesday evening in the first known public resistance to the coup led a day earlier by the country’s military.
'Suu Kyi's compact with the devil has boomeranged': US diplomat
A day after Myanmar’s military pulled off a well-choreographed coup, the country’s civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, finds herself right back where she was just over a decade ago — under house arrest.
Official Myanmar vote count affirms Suu Kyi’s party control
Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy won enough seats in Parliament to return to power for a second five-year term, official results released by the election commission showed Friday.
Rohingya Repatriation: Why Suu Kyi unlikely to change her position
Bangladesh and the international community must intensify pressure on the Myanmar government over Rohingya repatriation as its military is unlikely to allow Aung San Suu Kyi to shift her position, says a global affairs expert.
"It's (intensified pressure) imperative," Dr Ali Riaz, a distinguished professor at Illinois State University, told UNB sharing three reasons why Suu Kyi's position on Rohingya issue will remain unchanged.
Though Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, she has widely been criticised for doing nothing to stop rape, murder and genocide in Rakhine by refusing to condemn the powerful military or acknowledge accounts of atrocities.
On three reasons why Suu Kyi is unlikely to change her position, Prof Riaz said she personally adheres to a position which does not see Rohingyas as a part of the Myanmar nation.
Secondly, he said, anti-Rohingya which is also anti-Muslim sentiment acts as a mobilizing element for Suu Kyi's support base.
Thirdly, Prof Riaz said, Myanmar’s military may not allow her to shift her position.
"There should be no doubt that military holds the real key to power," said Prof Riaz, also President of the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies (AIBS).
He said Bangladesh has previously proposed establishing a safe zone inside Myanmar as the first step.
Suu Kyi’s visit to Dutch parliament cancelled
The planned visit of Myanmar’s State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi to the Tweede Kamer (House of Representatives) of the Netherlands has been cancelled.
Myanmar's Suu Kyi's defense of army puzzles former admirers
What drives Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Myanmar who this week defended her country at the International Court of Justice against charges that it carried out genocide against its Muslim Rohingya minority?
Hundreds rally in Myanmar to show support for Suu Kyi
About 700 people have rallied to show support for Myanmar's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, as she prepares to defend the country against charges of genocide at the U.N.'s highest court.
Myanmar: Suu Kyi to lead team to fight genocide accusation
Myanmar's government says its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, will head a legal team it will send to the International Court of Justice in the Netherlands to contest a case of genocide filed against it by Gambia on behalf of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
Talks with Cameron: Suu Kyi lies over Rohingyas’ identity
Dhaka, Sept 21 (UNB) - Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, during her conversation with former British prime minister David Cameron, claimed that Rohingyas are not from her country but are Bangladeshis, reports Newsweek.