Friday, February 15, 2019

Another Violent End for Maintaining Peaceful Intentions



The assassination stunned the country, and tens of thousands of mourners attended Ko Ni's funeral. Ko Ni, a Muslim in the predominantly Buddhist country, had written several books on democracy and had just returned from a Jakarta visit to study interfaith peace in Indonesia. A legal adviser for the country's ruling National League for Democracy, he routinely condemned state violence against the minority Rohingya population, which human rights investigators have since said could constitute a genocide.

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