Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi will lead a fresh effort to bring peace and development to the impoverished, troubled Rakhine state in Myanmar, where violence between majority Buddhists and minority Muslims has cast a shadow over democratic reform.
Sectarian violence in Rakhine State in 2012 killed more than 160 and 140,000 people were displaced, and the two communities have remained segregated since then.
Ms Suu Kyi holds the rank of state counsellor in Myanmar (formerly Burma), where she is considered de facto leader after a landslide election win in November but is barred from holding the presidency because of rules imposed by the military junta, which still wields considerable power in the southeast Asian nation. (Courtesy of irishtimes.com)
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