"Suu Kyi's denial of what Human Rights Watch has called "ethnic cleansing" and "crimes against humanity", deserves international scrutiny," writes Maung Zarni [AFP] Myanmar's Muslim minority, demonised and persecuted for decades, is facing a fresh wave of violence amid media silence. By Dr. Maung Zarni Al Jazeera November 3, 2013 Aung San Suu Kyi, one of the contemporary world's most celebrated icons of human rights, non-violence and reconciliation, crossed the line into Myanmar's world of "Buddhist" Islamophobia. Disturbingly, on BBC Radio Four's flagship programme, "Today", she characterised the waves of organised violence and Nazi-like hate campaigns currently being committed by her fellow Buddhists - the lay public and clergy alike - as violence of two equal sides, claiming that Burmese Buddhists live in the perceived fear of the rise of great Muslim power worldwide. As a revered dissident,