“So
many people blame The Lady,” said Nyan Win, using a nickname for Aung San Suu
Kyi made popular during Myanmar’s police state era, when speaking her name in
public could attract unwelcome government attention. “For
example, in the Rakhine case, she very rarely says anything about this. She says
she was forced to speak about the Rohingya group,” Nyan Win said. “She believes,
in Burma, there
is no Rohingya ethnic group. It is a made-up name of the Bengali. So she
can’t say anything about Rohingya. But there is international pressure for her
to speak about Rohingya. It’s a problem.” (thanks Devan)