Daw Aung San Suu Kyi should avoid becoming a scapegoat in the Rohingya Issue -

Aung San Suu Kyi - a sad moment at the NED Awards Ceremony - Sept 20th, 2012, Washington DC - Photo copyright Kyi May Kaung. After all she is not the sitting government - she is being used by the junta to "prove" they are liberalizing. The disturbances in June were most likely instigated by the junta, who at least fanned the flames. As recently as a few days ago, there was a rumor (in Burma rumors are often planted by the government) that a young (Arakanese) boy had gone into the Rohingya refugee camp to sell ice popsicles and not come out - he emerged safely a few hours later unscathed saying nothing happened. Rohingya Blogger has complained about RFA coverage of the event. Here is PressTV interview of Raza Kahim of Islamic Human Right Commission, who blames Suu Kyi for her silence - http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/09/30/264286/aung-san-suu-kyi-denies-rohingyas-rights/ but her silence did not cause it. I don't believe she is unsympathetic to the Rohingya or Kachin. In fact, in the few days she was in Rangoon, between her Thai trip and her European tour, she was photographed with her hand on the heart of a Muslim demonstrator in front of the big mosque near the Sule Pagoda. I think after each of her foreign trips, the junta yanks her chain and reins in her remarks further. K. M. Kaung