Aung San Suu Kyi treats Rohingya crisis as a mystery: 'We want to find out why this exodus is happening'

MUMBAI, India - With nearly half of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim population having fled the country in the past three weeks, Aung San Suu Kyi addressed the crisis publicly for the first time - and called it a mystery.

"We want to find out why this exodus is happening," Suu Kyi, the leader of Myanmar's governing party, said Tuesday in a nationally televised speech from the capital, Naypyitaw.

The reasons why more than 400,000 Rohingya have escaped over the border into Bangladesh have been well documented by human rights groups: the Myanmar army, responding to an Aug. 25 insurgent attack, is carrying out