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Myanmar's Suu Kyi picks ex-UN head Annan to lead Rakhine State team

YANGON, Aug 24 (Reuters) Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi picked former UN chief Kofi Annan today to lead a commission to stop human rights abuses in Rakhine State, where violence between Buddhists and minority Rohingya Muslims has cast a pall over democratic reforms.
More than 100 people were killed in violence in the northwestern state in 2012, and some 125,000 Rohingya Muslims, who are stateless, took refuge in camps where their movements are severely restricted.
Thousands have fled persecution and poverty in an exodus by boat to neighbouring South and Southeast Asian countries.
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