New Delhi: Nobody knew that Myanmar's iconic pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi would get to face bunch of protesters while her visit to India as she made "racist" remarks. Notably, civil rights activists on Friday protested in front of the city's Lady Shri Ram College, where Suu Kyi was delivering a lecture on her vision for a democratic Myanmar.
The protesters criticised Suu Kyi’s silence over the brutal killing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and questioned the significance of her talk on the democracy.
"Ms. Su kyi has remained silent on the state sponsored genocide instead of spreading the voice of Budhist compassion as she and her party claim. She has clearly refused to support or even recognize the plight of 2 million persecuted Rohingyas," said Akhlaq Ahmed, coordinator of Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR).
"Being a mute spectator to the violence against a minority community in her own country, which also goes against basic doctrine of democracy, how could one acknowledge her talk on democracy here?" he asked.
"Let Suu Kyi speak against the showpiece kind of democracy and act towards stopping the violence against minorities, who have been oppressed since decades," he said.
The protesters shown play cards against sectarian violence in Burma and "misleading" and "racist comments" of Aan san Sui Kui on that problem.
In her alleged racial remarks, Sui Kui had said that "Burma considers the Rohingya Muslims to be illegal immigrants. The genocide and mass exodus are nothing but ‘cross border terrorism’ that needs 'a strict maintenance of rule of law.'"
After 45 minutes of the protest, all the protesters were detained by the police and escorted to the Greater Kailash Police Station.
Various organizations have been demanding that the government in India's eastern neighbour immediately stop the violence that has reportedly killed over 100 and turned thousands homeless.
The government is said to consider the ethnic Muslims, known as Rohingya Muslims, as illegal migrants into Myanmar.
The violence against Muslims began in a coastal region known as Arakan in June after a Buddhist girl was found murdered. It was alleged that she had been raped.
Buddhists blamed the Muslims for the girl's death. The Muslims say the Myanmar military had killed the girl.
The Myanmar government subsequently imposed a state of emergency in the region. It was also said that UN relief was not being allowed into the Muslim areas by the Myanmar Government.
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