Criticizing Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi not the answer

She can only do so much, given military constraints. She is still the best hope for this fragile democracy.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with Aung San Suu Kyi, state counsellor of Myanmar, on June 7 on Parliament Hill. Since then, upwards of 400,000 minority Rohingya Muslim people have fled Myanmar amid violence. Mr. Trudeau has said Ms. Suu Kyi, an honorary Canadian citizen, must publicly condemn 'the brutal oppression of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim people.'The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY BRYON WILFERT

September 20, 2017

The current crisis involving the Rohingya people in western Myanmar is both tragic and complex. There have been calls in Canada to strip Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi of her honorary Canadian citizenship and even demands to have her Nobel Prize revoked. Such calls are both short-sighte...

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