UN chief warns of ‘last chance’ for Aung San Suu Kyi over Rohingya crisis

‘Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi has a “last chance” to halt the Rohingya crisis which the United Nations has described as “ethnic cleansing”, the organisation’s Secretary-General has said. Antonio Guterres said Ms Suu Kyi, still has the “opportunity” to “make sure the carnage stops”.
“I would expect that the leader of the country would be able to contain it, and would be able to reverse the situation,” Mr Guterres said in a BBC interview. “She has a chance, she has a last chance, in my opinion, to do so.”
Otherwise, he said, “the tragedy will be absolutely horrible.”
Ms Suu Kyi a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, is facing growing pressure over Burma’s military crackdown on the ethnic group, which has seen hundreds of thousands of Rohingya flee the country.
In an address to the nation on Tuesday, Ms Suu Kyi is expected to speak about the situation, her spokesperson said.
She is not attending the UN General Assembly, taking place at the moment, and is staying in Burma to try and “control the security situation”, a government official said.’
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