Aung San Suu Kyi ‘exceeding her mandate’ says military spokesman

A military spokesperson has accused State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi of exceeding her mandate, at the end of a week dominated by the controversy over the resignation of Bill Richardson from the Advisory Board to the Committee for Implementation of the Recommendations on Rakhine State.

“It’s not the State Counsellors job to keep journalists and political prisoners in jail, deny human rights violations are happening, and lie to the international community, it’s ours” said the military spokesperson, speaking exclusively to Burma Tha Din. “She is not meant start committing her own human rights violations, that’s not part of the work of the civilian government, it’s outside her mandate.”

The spokesperson went on to tell Burma Tha Din that Min Aung Hlaing is reportedly ‘furious’.