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In this May 5, 2019, photo, Buddhist monk and anti-Muslim community leader Wirathu is seen during a nationalist rally in Yangon, Myanmar. A court issued Wednesday, May 29, 2019, an arrest warrant for the Buddhist monk famous for his incendiary comments about the country's Muslim minority and criticisms of the government. The warrant issued in Yangon charges Wirathu with sedition for remarks he made on May 5 about the government of Myanmar's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. (AP Photo/Aung Naing Soe)

Myanmar issues arrest warrant for nationalist Buddhist monk

By AUNG NAING SOE - Associated Press

Parliament Chairman T Khun Myat leaves after a regular session of the Union Parliament in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019. Myanmar's parliament on Tuesday voted to set up a committee to amend the country's 2008 Constitution, which was written to ensure that the country's military retains major influence over government, including veto power over changes in constitutional law. The proposal to set up the committee was submitted by the ruling National League for Democracy party of Aung San Suu Kyi, and opposed by the military, who hold 25% of the seats in the national legislature, and who boycotted the vote. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)

Myanmar parliament approves step toward charter change

Associated Press

Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi delivers the keynote speech at the ASEAN Business and Investment Summit 2018, a parallel summit in the ongoing ASEAN Summit 2018 in Singapore, Monday, Nov. 12, 2018. Twenty heads of states are gathering in Singapore for the Summit. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Amnesty International strips Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi of award

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi addresses participants during the opening session of the World Economic Forum on ASEAN Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018 in Hanoi, Vietnam. The World Economic Forum has attracted hundreds of participants for the three-day forum with the theme: ASEAN 4.0: Entrepreneurship and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi to skip UN General Assembly session

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Aung San Suu Kyi, the State Counsellor of Myanmar, gestures during a one-on-one discussion at the World Economic Forum's meeting at the National Convention Center Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018, in Hanoi, Vietnam. Suu Kyi says the country's handling of its Rohingya Muslim minority crisis could have been handled better. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Aung San Suu Kyi says handling of Rohingya could have been better

By Elaine Kurtenbach - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 1, 2015, file photo, Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks during an election campaign rally of her National League for Democracy party for upcoming general election in Yangon, Myanmar. Myanmar's government looks as if it's under siege from an international community concerned about the condition of its nascent democracy, with widespread calls for a genocide tribunal to hold its military to account for brutal treatment of its Muslim Rohingya minority. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win, File)

World criticism doesn’t have Suu Kyi or Myanmar on the ropes

By GRANT PECK - Associated Press

Aung San Suu Kyi defends policies toward Rohingya Muslims

By DEREK CAI - Associated Press

Demonstrators march to protest against a toughening Myanmar public assembly law in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, March 5, 2018. About 200 demonstrators marched against the government's plans to amend the Peaceful Assembly and Peaceful Procession Law, a law governing public protests in a manner making it easier to charge protesters with crimes while increasing the penalties for violations. The portrait seen in the background is Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi who led the civilian government proposed adding a clause that is punishable by a maximum three years imprisonment or fines. The placards read: &quot;Stop amending the Peaceful Assembly and Peaceful Procession Law to the unfair law.&quot; (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

Holocaust Museum revokes Suu Kyi’s human rights award

By ASHRAF KHALIL - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017, photo, F, 22, who says she was raped by members of Myanmar's armed forces in June and again in September, cries as she speaks to The Associated Press in her tent in Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh. The Associated Press has found that the rape of Rohingya women by Myanmar's security forces has been sweeping and methodical. The AP interviewed 29 women and girls who say they were raped by Myanmar's armed forces, and found distinct patterns in their accounts, their assailants' uniforms and the details of the rapes themselves. The most common attack involved groups of soldiers storming into a house, beating any children inside and then beating and gang raping the women. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Rohingya women methodically raped by Myanmar’s armed forces

By KRISTEN GELINEAU - Associated Press

Myanmar's Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi poses with other counterparts of members of the Asia Europe Foreign Ministers (ASEM) for a group photo before their meeting at Myanmar International Convention Centre Monday, Nov. 20, 2017, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

Aung San Suu Kyi blames world conflicts partly on illegal immigration

By Esther Htusan - Associated Press

Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a televised speech to the nation at the Myanmar International Convention Center in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. After a mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims sparked allegations of ethnic cleansing, Suu Kyi said her country does not fear international scrutiny. (AP Photo)

Aung San Suu Kyi, under fire over Rohingya, defends Myanmar actions

Associated Press

Myanmar says ethnic rebels stage raid on northeastern town

By ESTHER HTUSAN - Associated Press

A Buddhist monk holds a portrait of Ko Ni, a legal adviser and prominent member of Myanmar's Muslim minority, as the funeral car left from his home, Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, in Yangon, Myanmar. Myanmar politicians and activists were shocked by the assassination Sunday of a longtime adviser to leader Aung San Suu Kyi are gathering at a cemetery for his funeral. (AP Photo/Esther Htusan)

Ko Ni, Aung San Suu Kyi adviser, mourned by Myanmar ruling party

By Esther Htusan - Associated Press

In this Nov. 30, 2016 photo, a Kachin Independence Army (KIA) soldier sits inside the bomb shelter along the bunker at the front line of Alen Bum near Laiza, the headquarters of KIA in Kachin State, Myanmar. Ethnic Kachin rebels long at war with Myanmar troops say the government has only escalated fighting since Aung San Suu Kyi took over as leader, crushing the hopes that had led many ethnic minorities to support her party and leaving them with no confidence in the peace process that Suu Kyi has identified as a priority.(AP Photo/Esther Htusan)

Kachin rebels see more Myanmar attacks, no hope for peace

By ESTHER HTUSAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 30, 2016 file photo, Aung San Suu Kyi, right, and Htin Kyaw, second from right, newly elected president of Myanmar, attend a ceremony to take oaths in parliament in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. For nearly 30 years, Aung San Suu Kyi starred as arguably the world’s most prominent and revered political prisoner, a courageous champion of human rights and democracy in her military-ruled nation. As she completes her first 100 days in power, the Nobel Prize laureate’s halo has all but vaporized on the global stage: Suu Kyi is being assailed for ignoring the plight of the oppressed Rohingya Muslims, failing to stop atrocities against other ethnic minorities and abetting moves to erase from collective memory the bloody history of the generals she replaced. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo, File)

Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi: Falling star or beacon of hope

By DENIS D. GRAY and ESTHER HTUSAN - Associated Press

Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, center, arrives to participate in the inauguration session of Myanmar's lower house parliament Monday, Feb. 1, 2016, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo) ** FILE **

Aung San Suu Kyi will not become Myanmar’s next president

By Esther Htusan - Associated Press

Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, center, arrives to participate in the inauguration session of Myanmar's lower house parliament Monday, Feb. 1, 2016, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo) ** FILE **

Myanmar house begins new session dominated by Aung San Suu Kyi party

By Esther Htusan - Associated Press

A man rides past graffiti congratulating Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in her party's election victory in Mandalay, Myanmar, Wednesday Nov. 11, 2015. Suu Kyi has won her parliamentary seat, official results showed Wednesday, leading a near total sweep by her party that will give the country its first government in decades that isn't under the military's sway. (AP Photo/Hkun Lat)

Myanmar government promises peaceful power transfer

By Vijay Joshi and Esther Htusan - Associated Press

Leader of Myanmar's National League for Democracy party, Aung San Suu Kyi, delivers a speech with party patron Tin Oo from a balcony of her party's headquarters in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, Nov. 9, 2015. Suu Kyi on Monday hinted that her party will win the country's historic elections, and urged supporters not to provoke their losing rivals. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Aung San Suu Kyi party projects landslide in historic Myanmar vote

By Esther Htusan and Shonal Ganguly - Associated Press

Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi addresses the media at a press conference at her home in Yangon, Myanmar, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015. On Sunday Myanmar will hold what is being viewed as the country's best chance for a free and credible election in a quarter of a century.(AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Aung San Suu Kyi: Myanmar’s historic poll may be moment of destiny for opposition leader

By Grant Peck and Jerry Harmer - Associated Press