FILE PHOTO: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks during an interview with Reuters in Washington, U.S., October 17, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican leader of the U.S. Senate said on Wednesday that civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi remains the best hope for Myanmar and that it would not be helpful for Congress to join an international "pile-on" against her over a military crackdown on the country's Rohingya Muslims.
"The pile-on has been quite obvious. It’s also noteworthy that it hasn’t done any good," Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in an interview with Reuters. "And I just don’t think joining that and further undercutting the best hope we have for genuine Burmese democracy in the future is good policy."
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