Muhammad Yunus: Suu Kyi 100 percent to blame for the Rohingya crisis

Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus has blamed Aung San Suu Kyi for continued violence against the Rohingya in Myanmar. "I'll put 100 percent of the blame on her [State Counsellor of Myanmar Suu Kyi] because she is the leader," Yunus made the statement at UPFRONT, a programme broadcast on Aljazeera. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), some 588,800 Rohingya have entered Bangladesh since the violence erupted in Myanmar on August 25. When asked if Myanmar's military is actually wielding the power and rendering her essentially powerless, Yunus replied: "Well, then she should resign." He said her fellow Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is giving her blessing to the military and its actions in Myanmar by staying on in government. Yunus said: "Not only that, verbally she's defending it. She says, 'I don't know why these people are going. No, we don't have atrocities. “No, it is Arakanese who are attacking us.' All kinds of things ... She gets all the blame and she's responsible for it, and she has to fix it." During the interview, Muhammad Yunus also talked about his new book A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions.