DALAI LAMA SPEAKS OUT AGAINST VIOLENCE
He says Buddha himself would have helped Myanmar’s Muslims
NEW DELHI
THE Dalai Lama has spoken out for the first time about the Rocrisis, hingya refugee saying Buddha would have helped Muslims fleeing violence in Buddhist-majority Myanmar.
The top Buddhist leader is the latest Nobel Peace laureate to speak out against the violence, which the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar says may have killed more than 1,000 people, most of them Rohingya.
“Those people who are sort of harassing some Muslims, they should remember Buddha,” the Dalai Lama told journalists, who asked about the crisis on Friday.
“He would definitely give help to those poor Muslims. So still I feel that. So very sad.”
Myanmar’s de facto civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been condemned for her refusal to intervene in support of the RoArchbishop hingya, including by fellow Nobel laureates Malala Yousafzai and Desmond Tutu.
Tutu, who became the moral voice of South Africa after helping dismantle apartheid there, last week urged her to speak out.
“If the political price of your ascension to the highest office in Myanmar is your silence, the price is surely too steep,” Tutu
said. AFP