{"id":2805,"date":"2015-11-05T11:25:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T10:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/2805-myanmar-s-suu-kyi-says-don-t-exaggerate-rohingya-plight.html"},"modified":"2015-11-05T11:25:31","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T10:25:31","slug":"myanmar-s-suu-kyi-says-don-t-exaggerate-rohingya-plight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/2805-myanmar-s-suu-kyi-says-don-t-exaggerate-rohingya-plight.html","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar's Suu Kyi says don't 'exaggerate' Rohingya plight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Myanmar opposition leader\u00a0Aung San Suu Kyi\u00a0Thursday said it was important not to \"exaggerate\" the plight of the nation's persecuted Rohingya, hundreds of thousands of whom have been barred from Sunday's landmark polls.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Suu Kyi has faced international censure for not speaking out in support of the Rohingya, a Muslim minority who have been hardest hit by deadly bouts of communal violence in Buddhist-majority\u00a0Myanmar\u00a0at a time of surging religious nationalism.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The general elections in the former junta-run state are being touted as the fairest in decades, yet hundreds of thousands of Rohingya from western Rakhine state have been disenfranchised.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"It is very important that we should not exaggerate the problems,\" she told mostly foreign reporters at a press conference in\u00a0Yangon\u00a0when asked if the group were victims of genocide.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"I am not saying that this is a small problem,\" she was quick to add, saying that if victorious her party would secure everybody in the country \"proper protection in accordance with the law\".\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last week a human rights clinic at the United States-based Yale Law School published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortifyrights.org\/downloads\/Yale_Persecution_of_the_Rohingya_October_2015.pdf\" rel=\"alternate\">an 80-page legal analysis <\/a>claiming it had found \"strong 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