British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has condemned ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in the Muslim-majority Rakhine region in Myanmar.
Johnson on Sunday warned Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s de facto leader, that the atrocities against Rohingya Muslims are “besmirching” her country’s reputation.
He urged Suu Kyi to “use her remarkable qualities” to end violence against Muslims in Rakhine state, where the United Nations believes the government might have committed ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity in its crackdown on Muslims.
Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize for her political activism Myanmar’s military rulers, but her failure to condemn and stop ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims by Myanmar’s security forces have damaged her reputation.
Suu Kyi is constitutionally barred from holding the office of president but her party’s Htin Kyaw was sworn in as president in 2016 after the National League for Democracy won a…