Aung San Suu Kyi defended genocide charges three decades after winning the Peace Prize.
Evidence
In 1991, Suu Kyi won the Peace Prize for her nonviolent struggle for democracy and human rights. The woman who claimed that esteemed honor and declared, “It is not power that corrupts but fear,” later turned her back on her humanitarian courage and those very words. Three decades later, she was back in Europe defending herself, and her Buddhist populists carrying out the violent campaign against the Rohingya people, against charges of genocide. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 656
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
Related
- The Rohingya genocide destroyed Suu Kyi’s international moral standing (similarity 0.84)
- Malala Yousafzai publicly pressed Aung San Suu Kyi to stop the Rohingya genocide (similarity 0.84)
- Rohingya genocide killed roughly 30,000 people and displaced nearly one million (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Aung San Suu Kyi stood silent during the late-2016 onslaught on Rohingya.
#expands(0.70) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 657