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| ‘Rakhine Buddhist army kills seven in Independence Day attack on police posts’ |
| 2019-01-05 |
| [Dhaka Tribune] Buddhist Rakhine fighters killed seven Myanmar security forces in attacks on four police posts in Myanmar's troubled Rakhine state on Friday as the country marked Independence Day, spokesmen for the military and the gang said. The western state has been torn by violence once again since early December, when fighting intensified between government forces and the Arakan Army, which wants more autonomy for the Buddhist Rakhine ethnic minority. Rakhine was where a brutal military-led crackdown in 2017 drove hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Moslems into bordering Bangladesh. The recent fighting with the Arakan Army had forced 2,500 civilians to flee their homes by the end of last year, according to the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... Arakan Army front man Khine Thu Kha told Rooters the group attacked four police posts and later retrieved the corpses of seven "enemies." The group also detained 12 Myanmar security force members, he said. "We will process them according to international law. We will not harm them," he said. The attacks were a response to a Myanmar military offensive against the Arakan Army in recent weeks that had also targeted civilians, he said. The Myanmar military last month announced a four-month halt in fighting in the north and northeast of the country to kick-start peace talks with multiple gangs fighting for ethnic autonomy, but that announcement excluded Rakhine. Myanmar state media earlier reported an attack by the same group on Tuesday that seriously injured one coppers. |
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