Burmese Leader Aung San Suu Kyi Says Terrorism a Threat to Wider Region

Newly sworn in Burma Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi (L) attends the handover ceremony at the president's house in Naypyidaw on March 30, 2016. Nyein Chan Naing/AFP/Getty Images
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SINGAPORE—Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday defended her government’s actions in Rakhine state, where about 700,000 Rohingya fled from a brutal counterinsurgency campaign to neighboring Bangladesh. She said terrorism, not social discrimination or inequality, triggered the crisis.

Suu Kyi made the comments in a lecture in Singapore in which she reviewed her two years in power.