Addressing the Chatham House think tank in December, Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said that "people around the world are looking for a lead from Britain". He pledged to provide it: using Britain's global influence "for good" and to be "more engaged with the world than ever before".
Lofty sentiments. But there is little evidence of such leadership in the British government's tepid response to rampant atrocities in Burma perpetrated by government security forces against the Rohingya Muslim community.
During a visit to Burma last month, Johnson expressed concern about the situation facing the Rohingya. But his comments were scarcely commensurate with the scale of repression in Rakhine State, where most Rohingya live. (Courtesy of ibtimes.co.uk)
