Rohingya crisis elicits little sympathy in Buddhist-majority Myanmar

Working together: Suu Kyi posing with Ambassador Rosario Manalo (fourth from left), the chairperson of the Independent Commission of Inquiry for Rakhine, and other commissioners and officials following a meeting in Naypyidaw. — AFP

Yangon: Baffled, hurt or indignant, many inside Myanmar are struggling to digest a week of opprobrium heaped on their country by the UN and even Facebook over the treatment of the Rohingya, a stateless Muslim group whose plight elicits little sympathy in the Buddhist-majority nation.

Last year’s military crackdown ostensibly on Rohingya militants pushed out some 700,000 of the minority in violence that horrified the world.