U.N. Rights Official ‘Very Disappointed’ in Myanmar Leader on Rohingya Crisis<br />The comments by the investigator, Yanghee Lee of South Korea, a leading child rights expert appointed to her United Nations human rights post in 2014,<br />underscored international frustrations over the behavior of the Myanmar leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, regarding the persecution of the Rohingya.<br />I’m very disappointed." She said if the Myanmar leader were to "reach out to the people<br />and say, ‘Hey, let’s show some humanity,’ I think people will follow her — she’s adored by the public." There was no immediate response to Ms. Lee’s comments from Myanmar’s diplomatic mission to the United Nations.<br />Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, a hero of democratic rights who endured years of house arrest by Myanmar’s military to become the top civilian politician of her country<br />and de facto head of the government, has not criticized the deadly campaign against the Rohingya, who are widely reviled among the country’s Buddhist majority.<br />26, 2017<br />The United Nations investigator of human rights abuses in Myanmar expressed deep disappointment Thursday at what she described<br />as an indifferent response by the country’s Nobel laureate leader to the violence raging against the Rohingya Muslim minority.<br />Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi skipped the annual United Nations General Assembly last month in what was<br />widely viewed as a way to avoid hard questions and confrontations over the Rohingya crisis.<br />Ms. Lee spoke a day after she delivered a sharp critique of Myanmar’s human rights situation to the United Nations General Assembly.<br />Speaking to reporters at the United Nations on Thursday, Ms. Lee said "there is so much hatred<br />and hostility against the Rohingya" in Myanmar that few dare speak out against it.
