Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi should have resigned as Myanmar’s de facto leader over last year’s brutal Army campaign against the Rohingya, the outgoing UN human rights chief has told the BBC.
Ms. Suu Kyi had suggested an “iceberg of misinformation” had obscured the real picture of what had taken place inside Rakhine and had backed the Army campaign as a justified response to “terrorist” acts.
“She (Suu Kyi) was in a position to do something,” UN rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said.
“She could have stayed quiet — or even better, she could have resigned. There was no need for her to be the spokesperson of the Burmese military,” he said.