“I don't think there is ethnic cleansing going on. I think ethnic cleansing is too strong an expression to use for what is happening.”— Aung San Suu Kyi, bbc.com
“It is not just a matter of ethnic cleansing as you put it - it is a matter of people on different sides of the divide, and this divide we are trying to close up.”— Aung San Suu Kyi, bbc.com
“We know very well, more than most, what it means to be deprived of human rights and democratic protection. So we make sure that all the people in our country are entitled to protection of their rights as well as, the right to, and not just political but social and humanitarian defence.”— Aung San Suu Kyi, bbc.com