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Aung San Suu Kyi Downplays Anti-Rohingya Violence

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09/13/2018

09/13/2018

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Aung San Suu Kyi Downplays Anti-Rohingya Violence

Top News: “There are of course ways in which, with hindsight, the situation could’ve been handled better,” Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s de facto leader, said at the World Economic Forum on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Hanoi, Vietnam, in reference to her country’s brutal crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state.

Some 700,000 Rohingya have been displaced since last year, and the United Nations has called for a genocide investigation.

Aung San Suu Kyi also defended Myanmar’s imprisonment of two Reuters journalists who were investigating the military’s killing of Rohingyas. They have “every right to appeal the judgement and to point out why the judgement was wrong,” she said.

The Vatican: Pope Francis is set to meet Thursday with U.S. bishops and cardinals amid accusations that the Vatican covered up for ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who is accused of groping a teenager and sleeping with seminarians. Francis has summoned bishops from around the world to gather in Rome in February to discuss sexual abuse in the church.

AFRICA

•  Salva Kiir, South Sudan’s president, signed a peace deal with rebel leader Riek Machar.

•  At least 20 people died in a truck accident in Mali.

•  Prehistoric humans may have killed off the giant elephant birds of Madagascar.

AMERICAS

•  Antonio Saca, the former president of El Salvador, received a 10-year sentence for embezzlement and money laundering.

•  The United States asked for another round of trade talks with China.

•  More than a million people in the southeastern United States have been told to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Florence, which is bearing down on the coast.

ASIA

•  Super Typhoon Mangkhut, which is stronger than Hurricane Florence, is headed toward the Philippines, where it is expected to make landfall on the island of Luzon on Saturday, before continuing westward toward Hong Kong and southern China.

•  Muhammad Shafee, the lawyer for former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak, was charged with money laundering.

•  Malcolm Turnbull—Australia’s former prime minister, who left office last month after an intra-party power struggle—called for Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, the colleague who orchestrated Turnbull’s ouster, to face a High Court investigation due to allegations of conflicts of interest arising from his family’s childcare business.

EUROPE

•  A member of Russian activist punk group Pussy Riot was hospitalized—and other band members said they thought he had been poisoned.

•  French President Emmanuel Macron is set to acknowledge France’s culpability for the torture and killing of the Algerian Communist Party activist Maurice Audin in 1957.

•  The Danish Social Democrats have been moving to the right on immigration for years; now they are trying to outflank their competitors on the populist right, the Danish People’s Party, by adopting even harsher asylum and integration policies.

MIDDLE EAST

•  The United Nations called on anti-government rebels in Syria’s Idlib province to leave cities in order to spare civilians from government forces.

•  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has banned property sales using foreign currency.

•  Turkish intelligence officials operating in Latakia, Syria, captured a suspect in the 2013 bombing of the Turkish town of Reyhanli.

- By Benjamin Soloway

(Ye Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images)

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