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Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi, a human-rights icon, is criticized on anti-Muslim violence
RANGOON, Burma — When it comes to human rights, few names carry quite as much weight as Aung San Suu Kyi’s.
In more than two decades of facing down Burma’s former military junta, the opposition leader earned reverence at home and admiration across the globe — not to mention the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. Her release from years of house arrest in 2010 and her election to Burma’s parliament in 2012 helped persuade Western nations to relax sanctions on the current, civilian-led government.
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