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5 in the Morning — 16 December 2019
5 in the Morning is a daily digest of interesting, relevant, and underreported news stories curated by Skylar Baker-Jordan.
Suu Kyi’s denials make mockery of Nobel past — The Sydney Morning Herald
The genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar is one of the great travesties of our time, and Aung San Suu Kyi — a Nobel Peace Prize laureate — going from revered champion of democracy to defender of mass murder is one of the greatest falls from grace in living memory. Yet last week Suu Kyi sat before a tribunal at the Hague, brought there not by the United States or the European Union, but by Gambia. It’s a sign of the West’s failing moral leadership, but also just how bad things have gotten for the Rohingya. Suu Kyi’s cold indifference (she called it an “internal armed conflict”) to the more than 24,000 Rohingya estimated to have been killed 2017 is chilling and should make her and Myanmar international pariahs.
The DNC chairman knows nobody is happy. Neither is he. — The New York Times
In this profile of DNC chair Tom Perez, the New York Times looks at his election to that post in 2017, in which he defeated now top-tier presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, as well as his handling of the 2020 Democratic Primary…
