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In 2011, it appeared to move away from this and free elections were held four years later, which Aung San Suu Kyi won.

The shocking violence against the Rohingya prompted an international outcry, and demands for accountability - something which proved difficult, with the-then Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi refusing to prosecute her generals.

Myanmar’s de facto civilian leader at the time, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, had brushed off questions about the military’s conduct.

Myanmar’s military leader Min Aung Hlaing is on his first visit to China since he ousted the elected government led by Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021.

President Xi Jinping had spent years cultivating ties with his resource-rich neighbour when the country’s elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi was forced from power.