GENEVA: Aung San Suu Kyi’s government in Myanmar risks getting bracketed with “pariah states” like North Korea and Syria over its refusal to grant visas to a UN team investigating the plight of Rohingya Muslims, activists said Wednesday (Thursday in Manila).

The civilian government of the Nobel peace laureate said on June 30 that the three investigators designated by the UN’s Human Rights Council were not welcome, insisting it was conducting its own probe into alleged atrocities against the minority group.

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