Suu Kyi must halt massacre of Rohingyas

By Mahmood Elahi, Canada
15 September 2017, 18:00 PM
UPDATED 16 September 2017, 00:00 AM
The Nobel Committee should invite Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Myanmar's de facto head of government, to come

The Nobel Committee should invite Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Myanmar's de facto head of government, to come to Oslo to explain what she is doing to stop the massacre of her country's Rohingya Muslim minority.

As a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, Suu Kyi has a moral obligation to tell the Committee how she will restore peace in her own country. She has lost all credibility by not standing up against persecution of the Muslim minority by the Buddhist majority.

Mahatma Gandhi stopped Hindu-Muslim bloodletting on the eve of India's independence by resorting to the hunger strike. If she has the courage of conviction, she should do something similar.