A rift between Aung San Suu Kyi and some prominent western supporters has deepened after she criticised an international mission tasked with probing alleged Myanmar army abuses against the country’s Muslim Rohingya minority.

The de facto Myanmar leader publicly clashed with Federica Mogherini, the EU’s foreign policy chief, arguing that an EU-backed review of the Rohingya crisis was not “in keeping with what is actually happening on the ground”. 

The EU and the US — which also endorsed the proposed review by the UN human rights council — have been among Ms Aung San Suu Kyi’s most vocal international backers. They lauded her long journey from pro-democracy prisoner of conscience under Myanmar’s former ruling generals to landslide election victor in 2015.