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Eugene

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Wed Nov 14, 2018, 09:28 AM Nov 2018

Pence issues sharp rebuke to Myanmar's Suu Kyi over 'persecution' of Rohingya

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS NOVEMBER 14, 2018 / 1:17 AM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO

Pence issues sharp rebuke to Myanmar's Suu Kyi over 'persecution' of Rohingya

John Geddie
5 MIN READ

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence expressed the Trump administration’s strongest condemnation yet of Myanmar’s treatment of Rohingya Muslims on Wednesday, telling leader Aung San Suu Kyi that “persecution” by her country’s army was “without excuse”.

Pence also pressed Suu Kyi to pardon two Reuters journalists who were arrested nearly a year ago and sentenced in September to seven years in prison for breaching the Official Secrets Act.

“The violence and persecution by military and vigilantes that resulted in driving 700,000 Rohingya to Bangladesh is without excuse,” Pence told Suu Kyi in remarks open to the media before they went into private talks on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific summit in Singapore.

“I am anxious to hear the progress that you are making of holding those accountable who are responsible for the violence that displaced so many hundreds of thousands and created such suffering, including the loss of life,” he added.

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