Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrived in Canberra on Monday to meet a military honor guard and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who he said would raise the issue of human rights during his visit.
Suu Kyi has been in Australia since Friday, the top special federation of leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Sydney, where she saw her causing street protests and a law enforcement that accused her of committing crimes against humanity.
The Australian Attorney General said that he will not reject the law filed by lawyers in Melbourne on behalf of the Rohingya community in Australia because Suu Kyi has diplomatic immunity.
Since coming to power in Myanmar in 2016, the woman who won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize for her struggle for democracy in Myanmar, is now facing increasing criticism for failing to condemn or stop a military offensive against the Rohingya Muslim minority in her country.
Officials from the United Nations (UN) say that nearly 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled the Buddhist-majority country to Bangladesh. After militant attacks on August 25 last year sparked a crackdown led by security forces in Rakhine state, which according to the UN is an ethnic cleansing action.
The UN's independent investigator on human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, said in Geneva this month, that he saw growing evidence to suspect that genocide had been committed.
Myanmar has denied the allegations and has asked for evidence of violations by the security forces.
Both Suu Kyi and Turnbull made public statements before their meeting, but the Australian leader said that Suu Kyi spoke long enough during the ASEAN meeting on the state of Rakhine, which drew the attention of her neighbors in Southeast Asia for humanitarian aid.
According to Amnesty International's report released last week, there are indications that Myanmar is cleaning up the former Rohingya settlement villages for security posts or military bases.
It was reported Amnesty based on the latest satellite monitoring images that capture images of the location of villages that have been abandoned by Rohingnya residents.
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