Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi has set up at least half a dozen commissions, panels and boards dedicated to the turmoil in Rakhine, including the Advisory Commission Board on Rakhine State, to which Mr. Richardson was named. Mr. Richardson, a former United Nations ambassador under President Bill Clinton, has a reputation as a diplomatic troubleshooter. But ever since Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi entered a power-sharing agreement with the military in 2016, she has grown distant from her international supporters. Some of Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi’s closest advisers are now former military men. “She is in a bubble where she has people always telling her how great she is,” Mr. Richardson said.

Source: New York Times January 25, 2018 00:43 UTC