Westerners disbelieved the Rohingya genocide because of their high opinion of Suu Kyi
Evidence
After she became the de facto ruler of Myanmar, 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi—previously known as “The Dame of Rangoon” for being a champion of justice and human rights—stunned the global community by publicly whitewashing the genocide of Rohingya Muslims during her high-profile fall from collective grace. Because opinion of her was so high in Western countries, when reports of anti-Muslim genocide emerged, many Westerners felt that they could not be true. Most liberal Westerners assumed they must have misunderstood a nuance of the situation, or that some aspect was being “lost in translation.” But nothing was being lost. The reports were accurate. Considering what most in the West believed she stood for, the disgraced dame Aung San Suu Kyi had done a complete 180. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 144
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 144
- XREF: connects to: After 1945 the question shifted from whether to which western nation could commit genocide — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 570
Related
- The Rohingya genocide destroyed Suu Kyi’s international moral standing (similarity 0.81)
- After 1945 the question shifted from whether to which western nation could commit genocide (similarity 0.78)
- Aung San Suu Kyi defended genocide charges three decades after winning the Peace Prize. (similarity 0.78)