Few people have ever heard of Myanmar’s Rohingya people. Not many more could find Myanmar on a map – particularly after its name was changed some years ago from Burma to Myanmar.
The exception is Burma’s sainted lady leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who became a worldwide celebrity and Nobel Prize winner. The media loved her, a sort of Burmese Joan of Arc versus its brutal military junta.
But now, tragically, the Rohingya are headline news thanks to Myanmar’s brutal ethnic cleansing of one of the...
Published on September 10, 2017 21:01