Former Nobel prize winner and Myanmar’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi visited the violence-ridden northern Rakhine state today. This is the first visit to the area by the leader since violence broke out. Suu Kyi is a target of worldwide criticism for standing by as her country’s military wages a campaign of murder, rape, and torture against the Rohingya minority group.
The Rakhine State is home to the Rohingya community of Myanmar, ethnic Muslims, who have long faced persecution in the Buddhist-majority country, especially from the country’s Buddhist extremists.
More than 500,000 Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh since the Myanmar security forces launched an operation against the minority community, in response to alleged attacks by militants on August 25 against 30 police posts and a regimental headquarters.
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