Controversial Sayings

No one told me I was going to be interviewed by a Muslim.

These were all made-up stories.

the 'UN is so one-sided, they are not helping the situation'.

If you continue the narrative of the UN, you know, you might not get that access (to Rakhine State).

Muslims have been targeted but also Buddhists have been subject to violence. There's fear on both sides.

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.

I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.

All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original.

The U.S. government has been too optimistic. What significant reform steps have been taken in the last 24 months?

immigration issue

I have condemned Rohingya persecution but perhaps I don't use the kind of kind of pyrochnic language that people would like.

You can't shut down internment camps without making alternative arrangements people say shut down the camps. and where are those people going to go to.

To stay neutral between an aggressor and a victim is to side with the aggressor.

I want to find out why this is happening.

there have been no armed clashes and there have been no clearance operations for the past two weeks.

more than 50 percent of Muslim villages are intact.

(Refused to use the word 'Rohingya', instead using 'Muslim' or 'Bengali' to describe the community).

terrorists... a huge iceberg of misinformation... calculated to create a lot of problems between different communities and with the aim of promoting the interest of the terrorists.

The events in Rakhine... did not constitute genocide.