Arakan News Agency
Myanmar’s state councilor Aung San Suu Kyi said on Thursday that the Arakan region crisis needs some time to come up with a proper solution.
“We have been working for a year and a half since we took over the country to protect the lives of Arakan Muslims,” she said.
“Do not wait for us to solve all the crises that the country is experiencing in 18 months,” she said in a press statement. “This is impossible.”
Since August 25th, Myanmar’s army and Buddhist militias have been committing crimes, attacks and brutal massacres against the Muslim minority of Rohingya in Arakan, killing and displacing tens of thousands of innocent people.
Suu Kyi said her government is making every effort to implement the recommendations of the Arakan Advisory Committee report, chaired by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
“We face many problems in the path of development, notably lack of resources and possibilities.”
In a related context, human rights activists in Indonesia launched an online campaign to collect signatures online to withdraw the Nobel Peace Prize from Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi, received in 1991.
The Anadolu correspondent said the campaign, launched through Change.org, had managed to collect 366,000 signatures by noon.
There is no clear statistics on the victims of attacks on Muslims in Myanmar, but on August 28, the European Council of Rohingya announced the killing of between 2,000 to 3,000 Muslims in the Arakan army attacks in three days.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said the number of Arakan Muslims who arrived in Bangladesh to escape attacks by the army and Buddhist nationalists in Arakan has risen to 300,000.
