Via KMGH:
Myanmar still doesn’t recognize a minority Muslim population in its borders — and doesn’t want the U.S. to, either.
Human rights groups say the the Rohingya people are one of the most persecuted ethnic groups in the world. About 800,000 people in Myanmar from the Muslim minority are currently stateless, and violence in the country’s west has put thousands in internment camps.
Myanmar’s majority party leader Aung San Suu Kyi recently asked the U.S. ambassador to not use the term Rohingya.
That’s because most of Myanmar doesn’t recognize them as an ethnic group. The country has a majority Buddhist population, and the Rohingya are seen as a religious threat.
For many, this seems somewhat unexpected from Suu Kyi — who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for “her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights.”
An author and longtime political prisoner, Suu Kyi’s recently elected party, the National League for Democracy, pulled the country out of a military-led government last year.
That government didn’t recognize the persecuted Muslims group, either.