Suu Kyi decries war rapes

Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday appealed for an end to rapes by troops in her country, in a video address to her sister Nobel laureates in Montebello, Canada.
Violence against women, the Nobel Peace Prize winner said, "is a very real problem."
"Rape is used in my country as a weapon against those who only want to live in peace, who only want to assert their basic human rights. It is used as a weapon by armed forces to intimidate the ethnic nationalities and to divide our country," she said.
Suu Kyi, 65, was released in November shortly after the country's first election in 20 years, having spent most of the past two decades in detention.