Indian Nobel Peace laureate child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi has expressed his disappointment with Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi's stand on the Rohingya issue, calling it among this “era's biggest humanitarian crises.”
“Almost the entire Nobel Peace laureate community is hugely disappointed with our fellow Nobel laureate Suu Kyi. We have written to her,” Satyarthi said during his tour of India's northeastern state of Assam on Saturday, reports the Washington Post.
Satyarthi added that the Myanmar government's handling of the crisis is "bad and unacceptable," with more than 400,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state in the past month to neighbouring Bangladesh.
“The politics aside, it is a humanitarian crisis of gigantic proportions and Suu Kyi has to deal with that from that perspective," said Satyarthi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, sharing it with Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai.
However, India is considering supplying arms to Myanmar’s government in a sign of strong support for a neighbour that faces criticism for its crackdown on Rohingya Muslims.
More than 422,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh to escape fresh spell of violence which was triggered by attacks of Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army.
The insurgent group attacked on 30 police posts and an army base, and killed 12 security personnel on August 24 and 25 in Rakhine state. After that Myanmar security forces started a violent campaign on Rohingya Muslims in the name of counter-insurgency drive.
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
