Too soft on Myanmar

ON HIS recent visit to Myanmar (formerly Burma) to see the devastation inflicted by the country’s army on the minority Rohingya Muslims, Boris Johnson challenged the government’s false propaganda that the Rohingya burnt down their own houses. He should have gone further and accused the Myanmar government — led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi — of carrying out genocide. I’m convinced he held back because it would have necessitated the British government stepping in to try to stop the killing — something it hasn’t the stomach for. Why won’t the Foreign Office do anything to halt the rape and murder in our former colony?