Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi's speech on Tuesday on the Rohingya refugee crisis was bewildering and unconvincing (“Suu Kyi promises to resettle ‘verified’ Rohingya refugees”, Sept. 20). Her call for “patience and understanding” looks hollow in the current circumstances. Patience is quickly running out in India and Bangladesh. By saying that the situation is “not so severe”, the icon of peace has revealed her ignorance. Her willingness to take all the refugees back subject to a verification process is ridiculous. How can one expect those who have fled their land fearing for their lives to carry all their documents? Equally baffling is her disinclination to talk about the Army’s excesses. Ms. Suu Kyi had said long back that it is “not power that corrupts”, but “the fear of losing power that corrupts.” Has that fear crept into her mind? One hopes that she proves her detractors wrong.
Ganapathi Bhat,
Akola
