Citing ‘Whitewash,’ Bill Richardson Quits Rohingya Post

By artappraiser on Fri, 01/26/2018 - 12:17am |

By Hannah Beech & Rick Gladston @ NYTimes.com, Jan. 24

BANGKOK — Delivering an unusual public rebuke, former Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico resigned Wednesday from a Myanmar advisory board on the Rohingya crisis, calling it a pro-government “cheerleading squad” and chastising the country’s civilian leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, whom he has long considered a friend.

“She has developed an arrogance of power,” Mr. Richardson said by telephone during a layover in Tokyo on his way back to New Mexico from Myanmar. “I’ve known her a long time and am fond of her, but she basically is unwilling to listen to bad news, and I don’t want to be part of a whitewash.” [....]

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/24/world/asia/bill-richardson-myanmar-rohingya.html?smid=tw-share