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She has won the Nobel Peace Prize, she leads Myanmar’s pro-democracy opposition, but Aung Sang Suu Kyi has been reluctant to speak out for Myanmar’s Rohingya minority. Aung Zaw is the editor of Irrawaddy Magazine, an independent publication banned in Myanmar until 2012. In this excerpt from The Inquiry, he explains that prejudice against the Rohingya is so intense that if Aung Sang Suu Kyi spoke up for them it would wreck her chances in November’s elections.

(Photo: Journalist Aung Zaw. Credit: James Fletcher, Â鶹Éç)