Suu Kyi says cannot back Myanmar's Rohingya: BBC
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Myanmar Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrives to attend a regular session of parliament at Myanmar Union Parliament on Friday, Nov 2, 2012, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar.Aung San Suu Kyi has declined to speak out on behalf of Rohingya Muslims and insisted she will not use "moral leadership" to back either side in deadly communal unrest in west Myanmar, reports said. -- PHOTO: AP
YANGON (AFP) - Aung San Suu Kyi has declined to speak out on behalf of Rohingya Muslims and insisted she will not use "moral leadership" to back either side in deadly communal unrest in west Myanmar, reports said.
The Nobel laureate, who has caused disappointment among international supporters for her muted response to violence that has swept Rakhine state, said both Buddhist and Muslim communities were "displeased" that she had not taken their side.
More than 100,000 people have been displaced since June in two major outbreaks of violence in the state, where renewed clashes last month uprooted about 30,000 people.
Dozens have been killed on both sides and thousands of homes torched.
