Renewed Violence Puts Rohingya, Rakhine on Edge

More than 3,000 Rakhine Buddhists have been driven from their homes in Maynamar's Northern Rakhine state after a series of attacks by a group of suspected militants raised the possibility of another sectarian conflict. Deaths of 9 policemen Nine policemen died after a group, said to be 250 strong, raided their posts in Maungdaw township, a Muslim area in North West Myanmar,  where the majority of the population are from the stateless Rohingya minority.  While eight of...

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