This is in reference to your brilliantly written editorial, “For Suu Kyi, it’s time to speak up” (Nov. 2). However, my guess is that she will never speak on the issue in question and even if she speaks she will be extremely careful not to offend the perpetrators of the crime on Rohingya Muslims. After all she is a politician, who is looking forward for votes of the majority and not for justice.
Therefore, political interests can bring together people who otherwise have little or nothing in common. Tony Benn, an outspoken British Labour party politician, divided politicians into two categories: The “signposts” who point the way they think we should go and the “weathercocks” who haven’t got an opinion, until they have studied the polls focus groups and spin doctors.
He said that he has no time for weathercocks and prefer signposts even if they point in the wrong direction. In Suu Kyi’s case, she is a politician belonging to the category of weathercocks and not signposts, who can bravely tell the people what is right and what is wrong. Rohingya issue made me lose all the respect and regards I had for her all these years and as for me, now, she is nothing but just a politician. —S.H. Moulana, Riyadh
