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    Fact check: Aung San Suu Kyi's speech on the Rohingya crisis

    Address by de facto leader of Myanmar on forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of Muslims contained truths, half-truths and falsehoods
    by Oliver Holmes, South-east Asia correspondent Sep 20, 2017 4 minutes
    Aung San Suu Kyi breaks her silence on the Myanmar Rohingya crisis

    Following weeks of silence in the face of claims of ethnic cleansing against Myanmar’s Rohingya population, the country’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has delivered a controversial speech.

    In it, she claimed her government did not “fear international scrutiny” over its handling of violence in Rakhine state. But she was criticised for what some saw as her ongoing reluctance to address the crisis and the government’s role in it.

    How do Aung San Suu Kyi’s remarks stand up to scrutiny?

    I think it is only fitting that I should remind you today that our government has not yet been in power for

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