To govern, Aung San Suu Kyi seems prepared to turn a blind eye to the Rohingya issue. “If we mix religion and politics then we offend the spirit of religion itself,” said Myanmar’s independence hero Aung San, addressing his Anti-Fascist People’s Freedom League party in 1946. Seventy years on, for his daughter and globally revered human rights icon, Aung San Suu Kyi, the doctrine has changed.
