The last time Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi traveled to Western Europe, she was feted as the freshly elected civilian ruler of a fledgling democracy who had brought an end to half a century of military dictatorship.
When the Nobel Peace Prize laureate returns next week — her first trip to the region since a 2017 military crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in western Myanmar — it will be to face accusations of genocide, alongside the army she spent much of her life battling.
Gambia, a tiny, mainly Muslim West African state backed by the 57-nation Organization for Islamic Cooperation, lodged a lawsuit at the International Court of Justice last month against Myanmar for genocide, including mass murder and rape.
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