Rohingya Muslims: Fellow Canadians and Suu Kyi

rohingya muslims: It is with profound surprise, disappointment and dismay that your fellow Canadians have witnessed your continuing silence in the face of the brutal oppression of Myanmar's Burma's Rohingya Muslim people, Trudeau wrote Monday in a letter to Suu Kyi, the de facto leader of Burma, according to Toronto Star. The powerful military in Burma is accused of burning down the homes of Rohingya Muslims, forcing more than 400,000 members of the persecuted minority to flee to neighbouring Bangladesh, according to the latest UN figures. Justin Tang / THE CANADIAN PRESS By Joanna Smith The Canadian Press Mon., Sept. 18, 2017 OTTAWA Aung San Suu Kyi must publicly condemn the atrocities being committed against Rohingya Muslims in Burma, or else her rhetoric and global reputation as a champion of human rights will mean nothing, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Read more India says it has evidence there are extremists among Rohingya Muslims Article Continued Below What Canada must do about the human rights crisis in Burma Burma's leader has one last chance' to stop Rohingya crisis, UN chief says Suu Kyi, an honorary Canadian citizen and a long-celebrated Nobel Peace Prize winner, has come in for withering international criticism for failing to stop or even speak out against the violence. react-empty 156 The letter from Trudeau, which follows a telephone call last week, outlines the reports of what Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, recently called a textbook example of ethnic cleansing, including extrajudicial killings, burning villages and landmines. As the de facto democratic leader of Burma and as a renowned advocate for human rights, you have a particular moral and political obligation to speak out against this appalling cruelty, and to do whatever is in your power to stop it, he wrote. It was released publicly Monday after the prime minister made reference to it in a joint news conference in Ottawa with British Prime Minister Theresa May. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.