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Clinton worked tirelessly to help Suu Kyi behind the scenes which
ended up with her election on 2015 to a post called state
counsellor, the equivalent of Prime Minister.
She called Suu Kyi, clear eyed about the challenges ahead.
She proclaimed, Now the country was on the brink of a new era.
It was only the last page of her memoirs chapter glowing with
praise for Suu Kyi, that she mentions the Rohingya.
Over the last month nearly 410,000 more than one third of the
countrys Rohingya population -- have fled the governments
violence and are desperately seeking shelter in neighboring
Bangladesh,
At one time, human rights groups once praised Suu Kyi when she
won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize for her pro-democracy efforts.
But that has dramatically changed. Today, the liberal web site
Change.org has gone so far as to launch an online petition asking
the Nobel Prize committee to take away her prize. More than
425,000 have signed the petition.
The de facto ruler of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi has done
virtually nothing to stop this crime against humanity in her
country, the petition states.
https://www.change.org/p/take-back-aung-san-suu-kyi-s-nobel-
peace-prize
https://www.amnestyusa.org/press-releases/myanmar-scorched-
earth-campaign-fuels-ethnic-cleansing-of-rohingya-from-rakhine-
state/
At one time, Suu Kyi was happy to meet with international leaders
who supported her. But today she has refused to attend this
weeks UN General Assembly meeting in New York.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/07/world/asia/myanmar-
rohingya-aung-san-suu-kyi.html
(UNHC document)
Her Burmese work has been widely viewed as the one clear cut
triumph of her tenure as secretary of state, the magazines
authors wrote.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/03/27/hillarys-burma-problem/
http://refugeewatchonline.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-rohingya-
scenario-role-of.html
Burma has 135 national races and eight major ethnic minorities,
including the Rohingya. Minorities make up 40 percent of the
population, according to the liberal Transnational Institute.
https://www.tni.org/sites/www.tni.org/files/download/bpb_13.pdf
Olivia Enos, a policy analyst with the Asian Studies Center, a part
of the conservative Heritage Foundation, told TheDCNF in an
interview one of the of the cardinal Obama mistakes was his
decision to lift all economic sanctions against the brutal military
regime once Suu Kyi was elected.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-myanmar-
usa/exclusive-u-s-presses-myanmar-to-cease-military-ties-with-
north-korea-idUSKBN1A62PG
The sanctions were really Aung San Suu Kyis last sort of stick or
leverage that she could hold over the military, Enos told
TheDCNF in an interview.
Rarely reported in the West is that Suu Kyis own political party,
the NLD, has been hostile to many of the many ethnic groups in
Burma.
Go into the country and talk to the different ethnic parties that
were not able to run their own candidates in their ethnic states
because the NLD Party ended up running their own candidates
that were not ethnic minorities, Burton said.
It sounded to me like the NLD Party pulled the rug out from a
couple of the ethnic parties and decided to run their own NLD
candidates instead of different ethnic minority party groups, she
said.