State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has defended her administration’s relationship with the military, saying that things were “not that bad” and that the generals serving in the cabinet were “rather sweet”. Aung San Suu Kyi was speaking at an event in Singapore, and responding to a question about the prospect of a military coup in Myanmar. Although Myanmar’s military constitutionally holds the power to conduct a coup, most analysts agree that such a move is unlikely, given the army’s continued role in administrative matters and the economic benefits it is seeing from the country’s reforms. “Our relationship with the army is not that bad,” she said. In rare public comments, Aung San Suu Kyi also said that “terrorist activities” remained a threat not only to Myanmar, but the whole of Southeast Asia, an apparent reference to the attacks launched in August last year by fighters from the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA). With regards to the process of repatriating refugees from Bangladesh, she said the responsibility lies with Bangladesh. “The returnees have to be sent back by Bangladesh. We can only welcome them at the border. I think Bangladesh would also have to decide how quickly it wants the process to be completed,” she said. After a visit to northern Rakhine State earlier this month, a Bangladeshi official said that conditions on the ground were not conducive to returns taking place. “We saw mosques burned while the pagodas of the Buddhists were intact,” said Habibul Kabir Chowdhury, who accompanied Bangladeshi Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali on the trip.