Hunt shames dismal Boris — but must go further

FOREIGN Secretary Jeremy Hunt put his predecessor, Boris Johnson, to shame this week, when, on his visit to Myanmar (formerly Burma), he made it a priority to meet political prisoners who have suffered at the hands of the repressive government led by Nobel Peace Prize-winner Aung San Suu Kyi. Johnson had dismally failed to challenge her and raise the issue of the genocide of minority Rohingya Muslims. However, Hunt should have gone further and repeated the demand of a recent United Nations report that Myanmar’s murderous generals should be sent for trial at the International Criminal Court. And it would have helped the cause of human rights worldwide if Hunt had used the word ‘genocide’.