Naypyidaw, Myanmar • During the three months that Myanmar has been rocked by a refugee exodus the United States has now deemed "ethnic cleansing," de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has for the most part remained hunkered down in her office in this capital city, hewn out of the jungle just over a decade ago by the military regime.
Witnesses have alleged that the military and Buddhist mobs raped women, executed civilians and burned more than 200 villages in a crackdown that followed an attack by Rohingya extremists on Aug. 25, causing more than 600,000 Muslim Rohingya to flee into neighboring Bangladesh.