SITTWE, Myanmar: Hundreds of Buddhists jeered former UN chief Kofi Annan as he arrived in Myanmar's troubled Rakhine state Tuesday to examine a bitter religious conflict that has displaced tens of thousands of Muslim Rohingya.

Annan has been tasked by the de facto leader of Myanmar's new government, Aung San Suu Kyi, to head a commission charged with finding ways to heal wounds in the poor western state.

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