Ever since she became Myanmar's de-factor leader last year, the one huge stain tarnishing the image of Nobel peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi has been the painful, awkward silence over the ongoing humanitarian crisis engulfing Rohingya Muslims in her country.
International pressure rose to an unavoidable pitch of late regarding the reports of grave rights abuses carried out in strife-torn Northern Rakhine, home to the Rohingya Muslim minority. Despite the community living in Myanmar for generations, the government refuses to acknowledge them as citizens, labelling them as illegal Bengali migrants instead of "Rohingya".