Amid
UN Excitement
at Aung
San
Suu Kyi,
Rohingya
Forgotten?
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
September 21
-- After Aung
San Suu Kyi
met with UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon on
Friday
morning, a
floor below a
throng of
media and even
Ambassadors
gathered.
There was a
smattering of
applause as
Aung San Suu
Kyi walked
from the
elevator to
the
adjacent
rostrums at
the stakeout.
ASSK,
as many here
call her, was
in the past a
UN staff
member, and
now an
icon. But
still more
messy
questions
exist, such as
her silence on
the plight of
the Rohingya
in Myanmar, or
Burma, as some
here call
it.
Ban
Ki-moon's
summary of
their meeting
did not
mention the
issue; nor did
ASSK or the
questions
Ban's
spokesman
selected. Yes,
ASSK is in
context a rare
UN good news
or success
story. But
particularly
for
that reason,
questions of
the stateless
Rohingya who
suffer
religious
prejudice in
majority
Buddhist
Myanmar as
Muslim should
not be swept
under the rug.
Watch this
site.
Footnote:
In
the crowd
awaiting ASSK
was the
Permanent
Representative
of New
Zealand, with
his cell phone
out to take a
photo. Such is
the star
power of ASSK.
Then, just
after the
stakeout, a
meeting of the
Latin
American
grouping CELAC
was suspended,
with "no
consensus"
after a
Paraguay
arrival. But
that's another
story - watch
this site.
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