the world used to see this woman as a
symbol of peace and human rights on Sen
su Chi even won a Nobel Peace Prize for
her efforts to bring democracy to
Myanmar now she's the civilian leader
and she's fighting charges that the
country on her watch has committed
genocide it's hard to get your head
round just what an incredible turnaround
this is for nearly 20 years on and off
Hong sang-soo she was kept under house
arrest here in the city of Yangon by the
brutal military dictatorship now though
she's standing up for the same army
which took away her freedom and even
trying to justify its actions to the
world this is what it's accused of
targeting and killing the Ranger Muslim
minority UN experts say Myanmar's army
acted with genocidal intent when in 2017
troops forced out more than 740,000
revenger these refugees tell horrific
stories of rape and murder and they're
still trapped in camps across the border
in Bangladesh then this happened this
tiny West African Muslim country for
Gambia brought a case against Myanmar at
the United Nations top court the
International Court of Justice
it's doing this on behalf of dozens of
other Muslim countries they want the
court to issue an emergency ruling to
protect the revenger from further harm
but Myanmar rejects all allegations of
genocide the army which still holds
enormous power insists it was only
clearing out those it calls terrorists
and that really the rehén jur are
illegal immigrants on sand su Chi
appears to agree for years she's denied
that myanmar has been persecuting the
revenger I don't think that ethnic
cleansing going on I think ethnic
cleansing is too strong an expression to
use or what's happening now she
continues to accuse the international
community of failing to understand the
situation in troubled Rakhine State we
are of the opinion that they are certain
extremist elements who do not want peace
in their crime okay so we are
disappointed in the fact that the
international community has been very
little attention to the terrorist
element so why is Aung San su Chi now
backing the Army so publicly well some
believe she sees it as her duty to
defend her country even if she doesn't
have constitutional control over the
military and let's not forget many in
Myanmar which is a majority Buddhist
country do not care about the reinjure
Muslims or they outright despised them
being seen to give a patriotic defense
of the country in the face of so much
international criticism could boost Aung
San su Chi's popularity even more ahead
of the next general election in November
2020
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justice for the ranger is still a long
way off even with this court case and
that's because the ICJ has no way of
enforcing a ruling against Myanmar and
there is no international police force
to protect the revenger from further
abuse neither on Sun Tzu Chi nor the
generals would automatically be arrested
and put on trial but it could lead to
sanctions against Myanmar damaging an
economy only just finding its feet after
military rule it could also give
momentum to other ongoing legal cases
brought on behalf of the revenger this
means for years to come
Hong sang-soo Qi will have to defend
herself against one of the worst crimes
imaginable an international beacon of
freedom fairness and equality who was
fallen so far
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