Give Kyi a chance

Has there been too speedy an international rush to judgment over Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar(scotsman, 20 September)?

Already the British government has suspended co-operation with the military in that country;pressuretohavemore international observers in the northern part of Rakhine state is growing.

It should go without saying thateveryassistanceshouldbe afforded to charities like Save the Children in their efforts to ease suffering. But the sometimes knee-jerk calls for the withdrawal of the State Counsellor’s international awards are not just premature, they ignore the very real political environment in which she is operating.

It is one thing to award laurels because a campaigner for human rights and the extension of liberty has spent the best part of three decades in prison. It is another to try to appreciate that she is now a political leader trying to achieve a delicate balancing act between the forces of