Asked
of Rohinga
& ASSK, UN
Sends Dictum
Ban
Ki-moon, But
to Whom?
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
September 21
-- After UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon met
Friday morning
with Aung San
Suu Kyi, his
statement to
the press
about the
meeting did
not mention
the plight of
the Rohingyas
in
Myanmar, or
Burma, as some
here call it.
Nor was he
asked about
it,
in the two
questions
selected.
As
noted, Aung
San Suu Kyi is
in context a
rare good news
or success
story at the
UN, where she
was once a
staffer. But
particularly
for
that reason,
questions of
the stateless
Rohingya who
suffer
religious
prejudice in
majority
Buddhist
Myanmar as
Muslim should
not be swept
under the rug.
An
hour later at
the day's noon
briefing,
Inner City
Press asked
Ban's
spokesman
Martin Nesirky
if the
Rohingya had
come up. He
said yes,
but when Inner
City Press
asked for
details, he
only said,
they
discussed it.
Late
Friday
afternoon the
following
arrived:
Subject:
Your
question on
Myanmar
From: UN
Spokesperson -
Do Not Reply
[at]
un.org
Date: Fri, Sep
21, 2012 at
4:18 PM
To: Matthew
Russell
Lee [at]
innercitypress.com
Regarding
the
question of
the Rohingya
in Myanmar,
the
Secretary-General
hopes
that the
recently
formed
27-member
Commission
will carry out
an
independent,
impartial and
fair
assessment of
the situation,
and will
come up with
practical
recommendations
for the
future.
It
is not clear
how this
dictum, it is
said, relates
to the
question that
Inner City
Press
asked: did Ban
Ki-moon raise
the plight of
the Muslim
stateless
Rohingya to
Aung San Suu
Kyi, who has
been
noticeably
silent about
them, or she
to he? This is
a hope stated
by Ban
Ki-moon: but
to
whom? Watch
this site.
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