{"id":114920,"date":"2017-04-20T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T02:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=114920"},"modified":"2017-04-20T11:58:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T03:58:17","slug":"syed-hamid-syed-albar-i-have-lost-total-confidence-on-aung-san-suu-kyi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=114920","title":{"rendered":"Syed Hamid Albar: \u0153I have lost total confidence in Aung San Suu Kyi\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Mahadhir bin Monihuldin<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>GOMBAK, 20 April 2017: Tan Sri Syed Hamid Albar, on Friday (14 April), expressed his discontentment with the leadership of Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmars known political leader.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at IIUM&#8217;s Humanitarian Symposium 2017 on the topic &#8216;Rohingya: Plight, Despair and Hope&#8221;, the former Malaysian Foreign Minister said, \u0153I have lost total confidence in Aung San Suu Kyi. We supported her fully, but now shes been completely hesitant.\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Tan Sri Syed Hamid spoke at the possible solution to humanitarian system on the topic, &#8220;Rohingya humanitarian crisis and the possible solutions to overcome it through international law&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He said a degree of injustice was perpetrated against the Rohingya people by the Myanmar military organisation called the Tatmadaw, as well as by the Myanmar Buddhist nationalists who have caused a lot of ruckus.<\/p>\n<p>\u0153The Rohingya is not a question of the refusal to give them citizenship. Its a question of depriving what was actually theirs all along,\u009d Tan Sri Syed Hamid said.<\/p>\n<p>He was quick to point out that the Rohingya people do not have champions and are in need of grassroots support.<\/p>\n<p>It was here where Tan Sri Syed Hamid expressed his stand not to rely on Aung San Suu Kyi, who is the President of the National League for Democracy (NLD), Myanmar.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Tan Sri Syed Hamid told the audience that they should continue with their research and international instruments to account for Myanmars military for their unlawful actions.<\/p>\n<p>\u0153Its of considerable importance that we work with the minorities of Myanmar and empower them as a whole,\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Being a former special to envoy to Myanmar for the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Tan Sri Syed Hamid has a considerable amount of attachment to the people of Rohingya.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u0153I am always very emotional when I speak about Rohingya.\u009d ***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mahadhir bin Monihuldin GOMBAK, 20 April 2017: Tan Sri Syed Hamid Albar, on Friday (14 April), expressed his discontentment with the leadership of Aung&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":114924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/MG_8069.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114920"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120608,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114920\/revisions\/120608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}