Very sad--halo dropped to the floor.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/world/asia/myanmar-rohingya-genocide.html?action=click&module=RelatedCoverage&pgtype=Article&region=Footer

As long ago as the late 1990s, Jack Healey, former head of Amnesty International, warned Burmese dissidents in Washington DC that "dissidents often come to resemble the regime they oppose."

Healey went to see ASSK and said he was very disappointed in her isolation, "she railed against (a woman who abandoned her first husband and ran away with another)--(wasting valuable time."

Healey told me "I would have done anything she asked me to" (but she was too isolated to know or understand international politics.)"

He also said, "I've met a lot of impressive figures before, including Nelson Mandela, but I was most impressed by her."

He said he managed to get out the most important item, a signed photograph of her.

Jack Healey pioneered the practice of enlisting celebrities in the struggle for human rights.  He was isntrumental is arranging for Shepherd  Fairey to paint his iconic portrait of Dr Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Laureate.

I didn't relate everything Jack Healey said earlier, because Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was still under house arrest.

She didn't set the Rohingya up to be persecuted--she didn't set up the 2 journalists nor arrest them,

but I think she has an "identity problem" and she is in a hard place, whereas the generals are used to poker-facing the world without losing their temper.  She also has to survive, but she needs to be careful.

Either way the Rohingya issue is unlikely to subside.

1 m displaced refugees don't and can't become suddenly invisible--and the ICC is still a real possibility.

When I related to a strong international human rights crusader how this picture had suddenly disppeared online, he said angrily, "How can it?"--(he was a liberal Muslim, non-Burmese, a strong supporter of ASSK).  When I described this same photo which I found later to another Burmese woman (not very political) she said, "But that's not very Burmese, to touch a man on his chest."

I was trying to say that she is not a racist.

She wouldn't have married a foreigner and had 2 bi-racial children if she were, and in college, she allegedly was in love with an Indian student.

But all that is personal.

I don't believe we should look at politics or economics in a personalized way. 

A Rohingya activist (not a Muslim, Not a Rohingya and not Burmese) told me in 2012 that the junta wants the Rakhine/Arakan Coast for their Shwe Pipeline to Yunnan in China.  It's already built and gas already flowing.

So they invented this crisis.


kmk
5-10-2019