Yangon: Suu Kyi denounces two-child limit on Myanmar Rohingya families

Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi talks to reporters after giving a speech at the first meeting of the central executive committee of the National League for Democracy party in the Royal Rose hall in Yangon May 27, 2013.

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(Reuters) - Myanmar opposition leader and pro-democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi condemned on Monday a policy by a district government to limit Muslim Rohingya families to two children in an effort to curb their population growth.

Myanmar’s minority Muslims under attack

A Rohingya Muslim village burns in recent violence in Myanmar

Amnesty International has accused Myanmar’s army of “indiscriminate attacks” against the Rohingya, which are tantamount to “war crimes.”

Myanmar Fighting Tests Suu Kyi as Politician Before Nobel Speech

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, center, leaves the Swiss Federal Palace with Swiss Foreign minister Didier Burkhalter, second right, in Bern. Photographer: Sebstien Bozon/AFP/GettyImages

Clashes in western Myanmar involving Muslim Rohingyas are giving opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi one of her first political tests since an April by-election win that prompted Western nations to ease sanctions.