Burma: the strange silence of Aung San Suu Kyi on the issue of the Rohingyas

Appeals to the plight of the Rohingya people, victims of extremism present in Buddhist Burma, joined several Nobel prizes for peace, including the highest authorities of the Buddhist religion, the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, as well as various world personalities and humanitarian organizations. The story of the people of the Muslim Rohingya has neglected for years by the international community, this population, although present for some time in Burma and allocated on state land is widely discriminated against and excluded from the most basic rights, such as citizenship and, among others, access to employment and medical care. The untenable situation, also because of recent religious clashes caused by Buddhist extremists, causing over 120 deaths, the Rohingyas have been forced to flee the country and the Burmese migrants to become hostage of criminal organizations. The increased influx of illegal immigration, in a kind of repetition of the situation in the southern Mediterranean, forced the countries of destination of migration flows, such as Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand to close its borders, providing material aid only on the high seas; the result is that the merchant freighter crammed of people have become veritable floating concentration camps, where the migrants are subjected, as well as economic blackmail, to all forms of violence, to murder. In this whole situation surprising silence of the Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, urged the intervention in favor of Muslim migrants, including from the Dalai Lama. For now, the Burmese Nobel laureate replied that only the incumbent government could do something, despite his continued participation in parliamentary sessions, Aung San Suu Kyi, gives the impression of not wanting to intervene in the matter. According to several analysts the party of Nobel Prize is given for favorite in the upcoming national elections and its possible pronouncement in favor of the Muslim refugees, could be the only reason to prejudice a victory announced. If this scenario were to be truthful Aung San Suu Kyi would keep a speculative behavior, with the sole purpose of obtaining votes, in stark contrast with his personal history and politics. This feeling is shared by the representative of Human Rights Watch, which has serious doubts about the coherence of the woman who won the Nobel Prize in 1991. Aung San Suu Kyi was a real symbol for the civil and democratic rights, it has been for fifteen years under house arrest and has sacrificed her role as mother in the fight for democracy in his country. Aung San Suu Kyi appears to have bowed to political demands imposed by an environment where Buddhism extremist is increasingly important in a society that has become intolerant and who uses religious matrix to resolve issues, which should be addressed in an opposite way. If this analysis is true, the myth of Aung San Suu Kyi decade miserably and prospects for an eventual government of his party do not offer hope for a democratic process, long awaited by the international community. Do not precede the protection of minorities, which should become a point of the election program of each political force that fights for civil rights, the mere outcome of the election, shows a lack of political personality, which does not assure a guarantee to install a democratic path in sufficiently. If Aung San Suu Kyi will win the election, could be embarrassing for the democratic nations and supranational organizations have relationships with the major representative of a political force that has not said, he did nothing to help a persecuted people and its last legs.