“If the West wants to alleviate the suffering of the Rohingya, it has to stop looking for actors who will act against their own political interests. In other words, the West has to stop looking for heroes, for there are none.”
“The refusal by Aung San Suu Kyi to take a firm stance on the (Rohnigya) issue exasperated and baffled the UN rapporteur and Western observers alike. In fact, as the international pressure mounted on her, the few comments she made reflected the viewpoints of the Bamar people, the dominant ethnic group in Myanmar, instead. The question arises why did a prominent human rights icon refuse to condemn the army-sponsored abuse? How did we get to this situation? And what can we do about it?”
“The gender binary is policed through the operation of an invisibilized power where it is least apparent – in the ‘everyday’.” “Macro level concerns such as sovereignty and militarized security are steeped in these micro level ‘domestic’ politics – and the politics associated with going to the washroom, thus, become extremely pertinent.”
