Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Cancels U.N. Trip Amid Outcry Over Rohingya Slaughter<br />A chorus of international leaders and rights groups, including the office of the top United Nations human rights official, have denounced the attacks as ethnic cleansing — some have called it genocide —<br />and castigated Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi over what they describe as her indifference.<br />In an open letter to Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi published last week, Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa said, "My dear sister: If the political<br />price of your ascension to the highest office in Myanmar is your silence, the price is surely too steep." Tess Felder contributed reporting.<br />An announcement of the cancellation on Wednesday from the office of the leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, came less than a week before the<br />annual gathering in New York of leaders from the 193-member General Assembly, the world’s largest forum for international diplomacy.<br />13, 2017<br />Facing a storm of global criticism over an ethnic slaughter in her home country, the Nobel laureate who<br />is Myanmar’s de facto leader has canceled her planned visit to the United Nations General Assembly.<br />The country’s majority party introduced a bill in Parliament in 2016<br />and created a new post for her as "state counselor," which some analysts have compared to prime minister.<br />Her decision to abandon the visit came amid an uproar over deadly attacks by the Myanmar<br />military on the Buddhist-majority country’s population of Rohingya Muslims.
