Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech at the opening of a dinner hosted by Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the State Guest House in Tokyo, Japan, on November 2, 2016. REUTERS/David Mareuil/Pool
TOKYO (Reuters) - Myanmar must have peace to carry out sustainable development, leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Friday, as human rights activists say conflict in the north of the troubled state of Rakhine has led to civilian abuse by the military.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Suu Kyi is in Japan on a five-day visit to court investment and aid, as an upsurge in violence against the persecuted Muslim minority Rohingya at home poses the worst crisis of her six months in power.
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