Suu Kyi: no ethnic cleansing

london - Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has denied the existence of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya in Myanmar. Suu Kyi, the former Burma, In an interview with the BBC's head of government is that there are problems in the region of Rakhine, where Muslims are a majority, but that 'ethnic cleansing is an expression too strong for what is going on. '

A report by the United Nations raised the issue that the Myanmar security forces were guilty of mass killings and rapes against the Rohingya. That might fall under crimes against humanity. The military has always denied these accusations.

'I think there is much animosity,' said Suu Kyi. 'They are also Muslims against Muslims. It is not so much ethnic cleansing, but it is we are trying to solve people on different sides of a conflict and that conflict. '