Popular figure: Suu Kyi greeting her supporters upon arrival for her campaign rally for the upcoming general election in Thandwe. — Reuters
THANDWE: Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi began her campaign in volatile Rakhine state with a hundreds-strong security force, as she risks a rare brush with hostility in a region where Buddhist hardliners accuse her of sympathising with maligned local Muslims.
The opposition leader was whisked out of Thandwe airport yesterday in a convoy surrounded by supporters of her National League for Democracy (NLD) passing on its way around two dozen riot police gathered in the town.
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