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By Maung Zarni, Published by Anadolu Agency<\/a> on June 8, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nobel laureate and de-facto ruler of Myanmar is joining ranks of far-right leaders like India’s Modi, Hungary’s Orban<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

ANKARA<\/strong> — The wire pictures from Budapest of a smiling Nobel Peace Laureate and Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi shaking hands with Viktor Orban, Hungary\u2019s president, strikes fear down my spine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is, fear for my Muslim friends back home in Mandalay in particular and Myanmar\u2019s Muslims in general, including the systematically persecuted Rohingya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two reportedly exchanged their unconcealed fear and loathing of Muslims and migrants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Suu Kyi\u2019s Myanmar the military has very successfully misframed the country\u2019s Rohingya people as illegal Bengali migrants from across the borders in Muslim Bangladesh. Myanmar\u2019s icon of democratic transition has become the killers\u2019 echo-chamber wittingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my 30 years of political activism and scholarship about my country\u2019s affairs, I have learned to read well the deeply racialised Burmese society, politicized Buddhist Order and the ultra-nationalist Tatmadaw or the military. And I had for years supported the woman the country\u2019s Buddhist majority call, with undying affection, Mother Suu, and have very closely studied her words, deeds and even facial expressions over these last three decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can tell that the pictures from Budapest weren\u2019t simply about Myanmar state counsellor performing in accord with the diplomatic protocol of being polite to the host and looking pleasant for the camera. It was more like a meeting of two racist, xenophobic minds, which are typically indifferent to either the warnings of the Fascist histories of the two respective countries during the World War II, or the ugly facts on ground including the countries\u2019 Islamophobic policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a report by the Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights, Orban\u2019s administration has been accused of spreading “xenophobic attitudes, fear and hatred” while Orban himself is emerging as a pivotal figure among European and North American far-right leaders and demagogues, from Trump\u2019s former right hand Steve Bannon to former U.K. Independence Party leader Nigel Farage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the case of Myanmar, the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission officially accuses her civilian leadership of being involved in the ongoing genocide against Muslim Rohingya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Orban government\u2019s statement following their meeting, Suu Kyi and Orban \u201chighlighted\u201d \u201cmigration\u201d and \u201cthe issue of co-existence with continuously growing Muslim populations\u201d as the two \u201cgreatest challenges\u201d to \u201cSouth-East Asia and Europe\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not the first-time when Myanmar’s state counsellor shared the limelight with a far-right leader and echoed unconcealed racist views about Muslims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In September 2017, Suu Kyi shared the press podium with India\u2019s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Hindu fundamentalist, from where both leaders openly misframed Myanmar\u2019s mass persecution of Rohingya as a state\u2019s legitimate response to \u201cterror\u201d — that is, \u201cMuslim terror\u201d. In her words: \u201cI would like to thank India for taking a strong stand on the terror threat that Myanmar faced recently.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have noticed how the Burmese leader — whom I supported so actively for my first 15 years of international activism in the diaspora in the United States — keeps on shifting her justifications for the anti-Muslim racism which has infested Myanmar\u2019s public opinions, government policies — and her own views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As early as October 2013, on Britain\u2019s domestic flagship BBC Four — Suu Kyi framed her own views of Muslims as a general Burmese popular perception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suu Kyi, then the country\u2019s iconic opposition leader, said to the British interview host Mishal Husain, a British Muslim: \u201cI think you will accept that there is a perception that the global Muslim power is very great. Certainly, this is a perception in many parts of the world — and in our country too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Six years since her shocking interview, Myanmar\u2019s Suu Kyi, now in power as state counsellor and foreign minister, has come out of her closet of Islamophobia, making a common cause with one of Europe\u2019s certifiably far-right national leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her concerns about the growing immigration and the problem of the ever-growing Muslim population at home in Myanmar are not supported by facts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2012, the then serving Minister of Immigration and former chief of police Brig. Khin Yi put the Rohingya population at about 1.33 million, a conservative estimate, subsequent to the two bouts of organized violence against Muslims in Rakhine state. Similarly, his boss ex-General and President Thein Sein also told the Voice of America Burmese Language Service in July the same year that \u201cwe discovered that the great majority of ‘Bengali’ [i.e. official racist reference to Rohingya] were born in our country after our independence.\u201d These facts make it impossible to frame Rohingya as \u201cimmigrants\u201d from the neighboring Bangladesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Myanmar\u2019s pervasive, grinding poverty — contrary to the misleading GDP statistics and mildly positive economic forecasts — and decades of political repression by the country\u2019s security forces, Myanmar\u2019s brain-drain and the out-migration of Burmese continue unabated. Today estimated 4-5 million Burmese of all ethnic and religious backgrounds, that is, at the ratio of 1 in 10 persons, have left the country as largely migrant laborers to South East Asia\u2019s middle-income countries such as Thailand, Malaysia and, to a lesser extent, Singapore. After Syria, Myanmar is the world\u2019s largest producer of refugees, the great majority of whom are Muslims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besides, Myanmar\u2019s Muslim population of which the Rohingya are numerically the largest group — out of a total of 16 groups — is not growing. It is quite the opposite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seven years on, only about 0.33 million Rohingya remain in their country of origin — with 120,000 of them in the barbed-wired internally displaced camps from where they are not allowed to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the UN fact-finding mission, Myanmar obliterated roughly 400 Rohingya villages during the Burmese military\u2019s \u201csecurity clearance operations\u201d of 2017 and slaughtered thousands of Muslims including infants, children, women, men and elderly people. The actual death-toll may never be known, but the number of Rohingya slaughtered is certainly far greater than those Bosniaks massacred at Srebrenica in July 1995, which was judicially declared an act of genocide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is zero growth among Myanmar\u2019s largest Muslim population within their own ancestral homeland of Rakhine. Quite the contrary, chronic waves of violent mass deportation via genocidal rape and slaughter and demolition and burning of Muslim villages since 1978 have more than halved the country\u2019s largest pocket of Muslims \u2013 ethnically Rohingya \u2013 in Western Myanmar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The remaining Rohingya Muslim population in Buthidaung township are in apartheid-like conditions, stricken with pervasive and constant fear of being slaughtered in the next round of Myanmar\u2019s state-directed mass atrocities — like the ones the world watched on Facebook and Twitter in 2017 — or killed in the current crossfires between the (Buddhist) Arakan Army and Myanmar government troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on my first-hand professional experience of running numerous sessions on racism sensitivity and awareness to groups of Myanmar\u2019s opinion-makers including nuns, monks, journalists and rights activists, I have learned one sordid thing: facts do not puncture racism or change racist minds. Suu Kyi is no exception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One typically hears the lame explanation that Suu Kyi has no control over the Burmese military, hence her studied silence regarding the latter\u2019s misdeeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her crimes are no longer confined to her refusal to condemn her \u201cfather\u2019s army\u201d, or \u201cthe crime of omission\u201d as the UN fact-finding mission\u2019s 444-page report (released on 18 September 2018) states. Nor are they merely her widely repeated denials of Myanmar\u2019s \u201cethnic cleaning\u201d as she had done most infamously on BBC and Channel News Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a matter of fact, Myanmar state counsellor is proving herself to be a wilful accomplice in the racially motivated atrocity crimes that the armed forces which her father founded under Japan\u2019s fascist patronage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Modern world history since Hitler\u2019s mass-murderous days is full of populist regimes that come to power through ballot boxes, mobilizing a majoritarian racism of the electorates at the expenses of religious, ethnic, and racial minorities. Myanmar\u2019s current transition under Suu Kyi\u2019s leadership is not toward an inclusive, democratic society nor a liberal democracy; rather, it is toward a Buddhist nationalist, exclusionary political system where Muslims and other ethnic minorities are demonized and rendered without rights or state\u2019s protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In light of these developments, the United States and the European Union should seriously review their policies of ostensibly supporting \u2018the fragile transition\u201d with Suu Kyi as the only capable and popular midwife for a Burmese democracy. The Lady, or the West\u2019s \u201cDemocracy Queen\u201d \u2013 as UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar Yanghee Lee put it to UK\u2019s Channel Four News in 2018 \u2013 has been actively engaged in the articulation, justification and propagation of a venomous worldview which qualifies as \u201cfar right\u201d, instead of promoting and defending civil liberties, press freedom, human rights and minority protection of all peoples and communities of faith within Myanmar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suu Kyi is Myanmar\u2019s Marine Le Pen, not simply a pragmatic politician trying to juggle the demands, priorities and expectations placed on her leadership in a fragile transition. The sooner the world comes to terms with Suu Kyi\u2019s metamorphosis the better for the Burmese activists who are engaged in community-level efforts to build an anti-racist, inclusive and democratic society. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

*The author is a coordinator of the Free Rohingya Coalition and co-author, with Natalie Brinham, of Essays on Myanmar Genocide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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