U.S. top diplomat calls for release of two reporters arrested in Myanmar
Reuters Staff
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UNITED
NATIONS (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on
Friday that the U.S. government has demanded the release of two Reuters
reporters being held in Myanmar.
Reuters journalist Wa Lone, who is based in Myanmar, is seen in this undated picture taken in Myanmar. REUTERS/Stringer
“Our
local representatives at the mission in Myanmar, at the embassy, are
expressing our concerns over the detention of individuals, demanding
their immediate release or information as to the circumstances around
their disappearance,” Tillerson told reporters.
Myanmar’s
information ministry said on Wednesday that the reporters faced charges
under the British colonial-era Official Secrets Act, though officials
have since said they have not been charged.
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She was the perfect symbol of democracy. Highly intelligent, well-read, articulate and photogenic.
Set
against this, the thuggish Burmese generals could never hope to capture
the good opinion of the international media. Not that they ever cared
to try.
Those of us who worked undercover in Myanmar remember a
constant struggle to stay out of the way of the secret policemen and
spies. We were despised by the junta and feted by the pro-democracy
movement.
Defiance against tyranny
When
I first encountered Aung San Suu Kyi shortly after her first release
from house arrest in July 1995, she was - after Nelson Mandela - the
most important global symbol of defiance against tyranny.
The world's media related how she had faced down soldiers with their rifles levelled in her direction.
Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption
Her fight for democracy in Myanmar was backed around the world
The UN and others demanded her release from house arrest and worked hard to achieve that goal.
We listened to her address supporters at the gates of her lakeside villa about the need for tolerance and discipline.
In her interviews with me back in the 1990s, she repeatedly stressed the need for non-violence.
She
was always keen to know how the African National Congress had managed
the transition to majority rule in South Africa, my previous posting.
The phrase "freedom from fear" was repeated, and became the title of a bestselling book. Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption
Aung San Suu Kyi, swarmed by supporters on her release from house arrest in 2002
It was language which Western journalists (including
myself), were eager to hear. Many who found their way to Myanmar in
those days were veterans of recent tragedies in Rwanda and the Balkans.
After witnessing genocide and ethnic cleansing, we were inspired by the words of the lady by the lake.
Complex ethnic rivalries
Here
was a peacemaker in a world made dark by the actions of Slobodan
Milosevic of Serbia, Franjo Tudjman of Croatia, and the Hutu power
extremists of Rwanda.
In retrospect, we knew too little of
Myanmar and its complex narratives of ethnic rivalries, deepened by
poverty and manipulated over decades by military rulers. And we knew too
little of Aung San Suu Kyi herself. Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption
Malala has called on her fellow Nobel peace laureate to intervene
We did not calculate that the stubbornness which
refused to concede to the military junta might, if she came to power,
prove equally forceful when confronted with foreign criticism.
Her
greatest strength in adversity could prove a defining weakness. Old
friends in the international human rights movement and some previously
sympathetic politicians have become strongly critical.
Anybody
who has spent time in her company knows that shifting her mind when she
is set on a course of action is extremely difficult.
Media captionAung San Suu Kyi talking to Fergal Keane in April 2017Last December, when Vijay Nambiar, the UN Special
Representative to Myanmar, urged Aung San Suu Kyi to visit Rakhine
state, he was rebuffed.
Ethnic cleansing
As one member of her inner circle put it to me: "She will never ever be seen to do what Nambiar tells her to do."
Nor
will she ever concede that the Rohingya Muslims are being subjected to
ethnic cleansing, not even when tens of thousands are being burned from
their homes amid widespread reports of killing and sexual violence.
This is not the first time she has faced criticism over the Rohingya.
It was the same story five years ago during a campaign that displaced more than 100,000 Rohingya.
Media captionWatch: Who are the Rohingya?Daw Suu, as she is known, did not visit the area or speak out in defence of the persecuted minority.
While
her government has moved to tackle hate speech by Buddhist extremists,
she has not made the kind of public gestures in support of Muslims made
by her hero Mahatma Gandhi and his colleague Jawaharlal Nehru during the
violence of India's partition.
Gandhi paid with his life and the
leaders did not succeed in ending the slaughter. But both men laid down a
marker about the values of the India they wished to see emerge from
partition. Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption
Jawaharlal Nehru (L) and Mahatma Gandhi publicly condemned violence against Muslims during India's partition
The memory of Nehru wading into Hindu mobs to
prevent sectarian violence is one of the 20th Century's defining acts of
personal courage.
Nobody expects this of Aung San Suu Kyi, but
it is the absence of even rhetorical intervention that disturbs many
former supporters.
The suffering of the Rohingya is a tragedy in
itself. But the palls of smoke from Rakhine state is indicative of a
military that feels it can carry on in the old brutal way, whatever the
world says. Image copyrightVarun Nayar/BBC Image caption
Tens of thousands of Rohingya have fled violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state
The action unleashed now against the Rohingya will
be familiar to the residents of other ethnic areas in Myanmar such as
Shan state, or in the war against the Karen.
Political cover
Aung
San Suu Kyi does not control the military and they do not trust her.
But her refusal to condemn well-documented military abuses provides the
generals with political cover.
It goes further than silence.
Her diplomats are working with Russia and the UN to prevent criticism of the government at Security Council level, and she herself has characterised the latest violence as a problem of terrorism.
Image copyrightGetty ImagesStubbornness in the face of what she feels is unfounded criticism is part of the equation.
But
there is a more troubling question: is her long-declared commitment to
universal human rights partial, a concern that does not and never will
embrace the beleaguered Rohingya Muslims in this Buddhist majority
country?
She may yet answer that question by pressing the
military to end its brutal crackdown. At this moment there is little
sign of that happening.
