90,000 Rohingya flee violence in Myanmar

Human rights monitors and Rohingya fleeing to neighbouring Bangladesh say the Myanmar army is trying to force the Rohingya out with a campaign of arson and killings.

Over the past five years, Rakhine has been divided along ethnic and religious lines, but the current violence is the worst yet.

The treatment of the roughly 1.1 million Muslim Rohingya in Buddhist-majority Myanmar is the biggest challenge facing Ms Suu Kyi, accused by the West as well as Muslim countries of not speaking out for the minority that has long complained of persecution.