A key member of an international advisory panel on Myanmar’s crisis-hit Rakhine state has resigned, saying on Saturday that the Aung San Suu Kyi-appointed board risks becoming “part of the problem” in a conflict that forced 700,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee. Explaining his decision, Kobsak Chutikul, a retired ambassador and former member of Thailand’s parliament, told Reuters that the panel of foreign and local experts, which met for the third time in the capital Naypyitaw this week, had “been kept on a short leash” and achieved little in the six months since its formation in January. In that same month, while visiting Myanmar, Bill Richardson, a veteran American diplomat resigned from the panel,  calling it a “whitewash” and questioning Aung San Suu Kyi’s “moral leadership”.