YANGON - Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi will address the nation next week on the Rohingya refugee crisis as international pressure mounts on the government to end it. Government spokesman Zaw Htay said Suu Kyi would speak to the nation in a televised address on Tuesday about the worsening violence in northern Rakhine. Suu Kyi will speak about the situation in conflict-hit Rakhine state for the sake of "national reconciliation and peace," her spokesman said. Suu Kyi, who rules Myanmar as state counsellor, is skipping the UN General Assembly next week to "manage humanitarian assistance" and "security concerns," he said. Guterres, who used to be the head of the UN's refugee agency, said he had spoken to Suu Kyi several times about the crisis, triggered on August 25 when Rohingya militants attacked police outposts in the Buddhist-majority country.

Source: The China Post September 14, 2017 09:11 UTC