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In 2015, when Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi won a landmark election in Myanmar, it looked like the start of a new era. But the country is now in crisis, with tens of thousands of Muslim Rohingyas fleeing to neighbouring Bangladesh after a military crackdown in response to attacks on police posts by Rohingya militants. Aung San Suu Kyi has not said much - except that the crisis in Rakhine state was being distorted by what she called misinformation. Her two-time biographer, Peter Popham, told Owen Bennett Jones she should resign over the violence. (Photo of Rohingyas entering Bangladesh by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
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