Suu Kyi and Kerry tip toe around Rohingya issue

Aung San Suu Kyi Saturday says her opposition party will shortly decide whether to contest crucial elections in Myanmar later this year - AFP

NAYPYIDAW: Aung San Suu Kyi (pic) addressed controversy over the use of the word “Rohingya” to describe the persecuted and stateless Muslim minority, warning that use of the term risked inflaming communal tensions in Myan­mar.

Suu Kyi said that her new go­vernment was determined to address deep hatreds in western Rakhine State, where tens of thousands of Rohingya are confined to squalid displacement camps after waves of deadly unrest with local Buddhists in 2012.