Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Thursday “genocide” was taking place in Myanmar and he was willing to accept Rohingya Muslim refugees fleeing from it, though Europe should help too. In a meeting with Myanmar’s state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi in March, Duterte presented her with a bouquet of roses and $300,000 for humanitarian assistance to the marginalized Rohingya people in the Rakhine region. Duterte told Suu Kyi, who has been heavily criticized abroad for failing to stand up for largely stateless Rohingya Muslims, that she shouldn’t bother about rights activists as they are “just a noisy bunch”.