State counsellor addresses Rakhine attacks while in India
“We as a nation are struggling to make the democratic culture take root,” State Counsellor Daw Aung Suu Kyi told reporters after meeting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 19. The state counsellor was on her first official visit to New Delhi where she attended the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation and the economic grouping of five nations known as BRICS. She returned to Yangon on October 19. “We too have many challenges to face, but we are confident that these challenges can be overcome because our people are determined to overcome them,” she said at the joint press conference in New Dehli. Her comments were made as the Tatmadaw conducts a manhunt in northern Rakhine State following a deadly attack on three border guard posts. According to the deputy minister for home affairs, 30 “attackers”, including two women, have been killed by security forces.
