“Hate narratives” from abroad have driven communities in Myanmar further apart, the Southeast Asian nation’s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, said in a social media statement on Thursday. Patience and time are required to restore trust between the communities, Suu Kyi told Christine Schraner Burgener, the United Nations special envoy on Myanmar on Wednesday, according to the statement on the Nobel Peace laureate’s Facebook page. Since August, nearly 700,000 Rohingya Muslims from mainly Buddhist Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state have fled to Bangladesh following a military response to Rohingya insurgent attacks, the United Nations and aid agencies have said. The United Nations has called the campaign a textbook example of “ethnic cleansing”, a charge Myanmar denies.