Suu Kyi defends court decision to jail Reuters reporters

She can say what she wants, but the world knows they were jailed for being journalists reporting on genocide and torture.

Glad to see Suu Kyi learned valuable lessons about oppression whilst she was being oppressed.

I used to respect Suu Kyi for her bravery.

What the hell happened to her?

She's forgotten the importance of free speech now she's in a position of responsibility.

Good lord as above. Nelson Mandela would never condone let alone try to justify such brutal actions by his own state. I say this as she has been compared to him in the past...well that was a seriously bad call. Credibility obviously is not her goal.

Here at home and around the world, journalists stand as the indispensable witnesses to the events that every society needs to know. The facts of wars, murders around the corner, politics, embezzlement, racism, agricultural issues, economics, obituaries, weather and social unrest. This is what reporters and editors do every day.

Aung San Suu Kyi turned out to be a snake in the grass.

The Nobel Institute should withdraw the peace prize they bestowed on this witch.

She might have dementia?

People of Bangladeshi ancestry - most older than the country itself - are being driven away primarily due to climate reasons: scarcer resources leads to genocide. The same is threatening to happen to Indians of Bangladeshi ancestry as the government requires them to register their ancestry. Worst, Bangladesh is one of the countries greatest threatened by climate change, ironically due both to drought and seawater inundation.

A tragedy of historical proportions is under progression.

A leopard can change it's spots!

We've created a monster!

Aung San Suu Kyi is a known con artist, she played the victim card, the west cried over her, now shes queen dictator, she was playing the west and Japan the whole time to get to power.

I used to respect Suu Kyi for her bravery

Me too..

What the hell happened to her?

Power.

Aung San Suu Kyi is a known con artist, she played the victim card, the west cried over her, now shes queen dictator, she was playing the west and Japan the whole time to get to power

You do come up with some gems. How exactly does a victim of persecution and oppression "play the victim card" when they are the victim? Didn't think that one through, did you?

If she was a 'victim' why did she not treat everyone with equal rights,now that she has full power, you would think she could change the country in her favor, but clearly she did not.

If she experienced her goverments dictactorship of the past, you would think she would come out being all Gandhi like and more peaceful to ALL, yet she just proved to be no different to the past.

She was never interested in freedom/ democracy for Myanmar... she only wanted power.

I never trusted her for one reason: she essentially abandoned her family and children in the UK and chose not to see her sick husband who was dying of cancer in the late 90’s. The Myanmar government at the time gave her permission to visit her family in the UK to say goodbye to her husband. She declined stating that the plight of Myanmar was more important and she feared she would not be able to enter the country again if went to see her family.

what kind of person does that? Now we know.

As a President and her in house arrest before becoming President, one would think the past experiences would change a persons way to make their own country prosper.

If she was a 'victim' why did she not treat everyone with equal rights,now that she has full power, you would think she could change the country in her favor, but clearly she did not.

Not all victims act alike.

> If she experienced her goverments dictactorship of the past, you would think she would come out being all Gandhi like and more peaceful to ALL, yet she just proved to be no different to the past.

Not everyone acts alike.

This entire argument is based on the false assumption that all victims act a certain way. Another post that wasn't thought through.

As a President and her in house arrest before becoming President, one would think the past experiences would change a persons way to make their own country prosper.

One would also think that posters think through their comments to find any failures in logic before posting, but that clearly doesn't happen, does it?

Japanese have their own views too.

You yourself do not think before talking. If you were oppressed and tortutred, abused etc etc shown sympathy from the west via the media, people power got you to be President/PM of your country, you would not think to change your country to the right direction in life so no one else would suffer the same fate as the past?

I personally would, but that doesn't mean everyone would. Not everyone thinks alike, not even all Japanese.

> Where is your logic? and read carefully next time before downvoting everyone and being all high and mighty..

My logic is in full display pointing out the failures of your posts.

Japanese have their own views too.

I never disputed that.

Wow, you sure make a lot of faulty assumptions.

I agree, though my point is, the liberal media always makes someone a hero or to feel empathy for someone, but her mask has come off and who is the fool now? sadly the media is always vomiting all these lies and the ones being conned are the ones brainwashed by the media and by these hidden agendas the very people making everyone feel sorry for..

The bottom line is that the ‘lady’ doesn’t want a Muslim state in Myanmar - most Myanmarese obviously feel the same.

The jailed journalists were reporting the truth but the truth is always secondary to political considerations..,

Suu Kyi disgraces herself again by defending corruption and genocide. She should explain why the officials who passed "secrets" to the jailed journalists have not been jailed with them. She should explain how it is possible for the entire population of a village to be "terrorists" and why that justifies murdering and raping the inhabitants without evidence or trials.

I'm not entirely surprised Suu Kyi takes this rather hardline stance on the rule of law. For years she had to consider the moral legitimacy of her own house arrest. The world thought it was completely unacceptable, but the reality was that under the rules and laws created by her own society it was perfectly legal and acceptable. Which set of rules were more legitimate? The global rules or the local rules? I think she probably came to the realisation that true democracy requires the local rules of the community to always take precedence even when those rules are deeply flawed.

Lots of water under the bridge since 1991 Nobel Peace Prize.

Mandela she ain't.

Daw Aung San Su Kyi doesn't deserve to blame for conviction and prosecution of these two Reuters reporters. Daw Aung San Su Kyi and her NLD Government did not write the current Constitution or the law.

These two Reuters reporters have violated Burma's Colony-era Official Secrets Act. Burma was still practicing many Colony-era laws which are written by British Colony Government. The NLD Government is trying to amend the Colony-era laws but the Home Affair Ministry was controlled by the Military.

The case was two Reuters reporters have illegally obtained Burmese border guard position Map from unauthorized Police Officer and also they have illegally obtained the information of the Police investigation of murder of 10 Bengali Muslims in Inn Din which was still investigation from same Police Officer. This kind of sensitive information was official press released to reporters by Home Affair Department.

The illegal possessing of the Border Guard Position Map is serious crime and breaking the State Secrets Act. Other domestic and foreign reporters did not go to collect news in Inn Din Village because they know it was prohibited by authority.

The Police have made error in arrest them. They should have arrested in Rakhine State. The Police may have received the information too late the unauthorized Police Officer has already hand-over the Border Guard Position Map and the investigation of murder of 10 Bengali Muslim Inn Din Village and document to these two Reuters reporters. The Police have used Colony-era method and framed to arrest these two accused because they have already obtained the Map and information document from unauthorized Police Officer in Rakhine State. It’s fatal error in this case. There’s no question, the case was collapsed if they were tried in the Australia because the method Police choose to arrest them. It was deemed to be illegal in West. However, they were prosecuted by under Burmese law.  They were not prosecuted as reporter.

Also, there's ethnic conflict between native Buddhist ethic and illegal Bengali Muslim settlers from Chittagong region, Bangladesh since 2016. Government cannot let happen another communal riot in Rakhine State and the rest of Burma. Two Reuters reporters' inaccurate story can lead to another ethnic conflict and destabilize the whole country. Northern Rakhine state was ruled by curfew since August, 2016.

Daw Aung San Su Kyi and Burmese Government was constantly attacked by Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, former the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation) and they have bought out the newsman from the West and spreading untrue story about genocide and ethnic cleansing against Bengali Muslims in Rakhine State. The genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Bengali Muslims is untrue and it was fabricated story by Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein. That’s why Daw Aung San Su Kyi does not reply to press and she was trying to explain by diplomatic channel.

This case is not simple as foreigners though. The Middle East Arab Governments lead the OIC has plenty of money. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein and the OIC was behind the Reuters sending two naïve reporters to Rakhine to gather information about murder of 10 Bengali Muslims in Inn Din Village and get Burmese Border Guard Position Map on Burmese – Bangladeshi border. I have no doubt about the Burmese Border Guard Position on Burmese – Bangladeshi border will go to the OIC and then the OIC will hand-over the Map to the Islamic Terrorist group the ARSA.

Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein and the OIC were aggressively trying to establish an independent Muslim State in Northern Rakhine State, Burma. Zeid Ra’af Al Hussein and the OIC were pressuring on the UN Security Council to establish a safe zone for those illegal Bengali Muslims from Bangladesh in Northern Rakhine State, Burma. Later, they will declare an independent Islamic State. The Islamic terrorist the ARSA group was created by Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein and the OIC. That’s why they didn’t denounce the Islamic terrorist ARSA massacred over 100 Hindu children, women and men in August, 2016 in Rakhine State.

Burmese Government and the Military must prevent civil war like Syria and Iraq. The OIC and Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein were trying to create war like Syria and to expand the territory for Bengali Muslims in Rakhine State, Burma. Daw Aung San Su Kyi and her Government have duty to protect its citizens and sovereignty.

https://www.quora.com/Did-the-Buddhists-in-Myanmar-really-brutally-killed-Muslims-as-we-see-in-picture