BELFAST, United Kingdom (AFP) - Ms Aung San Suu Kyi said Northern Ireland's peace process could help reconciliation in Myanmar, as the Nobel peace laureate visited the British province on Thursday.
The Myanmar opposition leader said she wanted to learn lessons about how Protestants and Catholics ended three decades of sectarian bloodshed and formed a power-sharing administration.
Myanmar has recently been rocked by anti-Muslim bloodshed and is also trying to overcome the legacy of decades of rampant human rights violations and conflict between the government and various ethnic groups.
Ms Suu Kyi met politicians, police and schoolchildren during her visit to the province.
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