TIL Desk/World/Myanmar/ Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi delivers the State of the Union address in Nay Pyi Taw. Her silence on the continued communal violence scorching through the Rakhine state of Myanmar has been condemned world over with demands that her Nobel Peace prize be recalled.
In this televised speech on the Rohingya refugee crisis she says Myanmar is ready to accept Rohingya refugees back into the country. Around 40,000 Rohingyas have settled in India. About 16,000 are registered with the United Nation’s refugee agency.
Highlights of her speech
>Myanmar ‘feels deeply for suffering’ of all groups in Rakhine. Would like to find out why this exodus is happening, would like to talk to people.
>Myanmar is a complex nation. People expect us to overcome all challenges in shortest time possible.
>We condemn all human rights violations, we are committed to peace and rule of law.
> We do not fear international scrutiny. Peace and stability was something we had to achieve after nearly 70 years of internal conflict.
> We are now starting another round of humanitarian aid. She said the earlier round of humanitarian aid had reached 95 per cent of those affected.
> We are ready to start a verification process and refugees from Myanmar will be accepted back. We will start a verification process for those Rohingya who wish to return.
> Action will be taken against those who broke the law and violated human rights.
>Throughout the last year, we continued with our program of development and establishment of peace.
> We are concerned to hear about Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh. But many Muslim villagers have remained, not all have fled.
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