PHILIPPINES President Rodrigo Duterte urged Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi today to ignore human rights campaigners who criticise her military’s attacks on the country’s Muslims.

Mr Duterte told businesspeople in New Delhi, where he and Ms Suu Kyi are attending an international summit, that activists against state murder were “just a noisy bunch.”

Ms Suu Kyi, a Nobel peace prize laureate, has presided over military persecution of the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority, to which Myanmar denies citizenship.