
Here’s the link. Click on the embedded video. Have a listen for yourself. Four years ago, BBC journalist Mishal Husain @MishalHusainBBC interviewed Aung San Suu Kyi about the plight of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.
Ms Suu Kyi pre-viewed US president Donald Trump’s “many sides” moral equivalence about the neo-fascist march in Charlottesville.
She said that all the trouble was caused by “the fear felt by both sides(Buddhist and Muslim”. She makes a vague but fairly suggestive reference to Muslims’ “global power”, which she says is feared by many (Buddhists as well as everyone else).
And at a time when 140,000 Rohingya Muslims had been forced to leave their homes, Ms Suu Kyi said: “Muslims have been targeted but Buddhists have also been subjected to violence.
Like President Trump, she created a troubling moral equivalence.
It may be pragmatism – the Burmese military is very powerful – but principle is what made Ms Suu Kyi a shining symbol for the world.