AUNG San Suu Kyi, the leader of Myanmar, has reportedly asked neighbouring southeast Asian countries for help to tackle the Rohingya crisis.

More than 650,000 of the Rohingya ethnic and religious minority have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh since August and she has been widely criticised for a perceived lack of action to tackle what the UN has said 'bears all the hallmarks of genocide'.

The city council took the unprecedented move of stripping her of the Freedom of Oxford following the violence last November. She had lived and studied in Oxford.