A landslide victory by Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar's historic election has raised questions over whether the Nobel laureate can overcome distrust from leaders of ethnic minorities and solve long-simmering conflicts along Myanmar's borders.
Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) scored a huge win in the nation's Nov. 8 poll, sweeping aside the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) of former generals.
But also crushed in the rout were dozens of parties representing ethnic minorities, who make up less than half the country's 51.5 million population, and who have a history of antagonism and insurgency against the junta that ruled Myanmar for half a century.
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