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2024-05-27 Southeast Asia

Some 45,000 Rohingya flee amid allegations of beheading, burning in Myanmar

[Al Jazeera] Escalating violence in conflict-torn Myanmar’s Rakhine State has forced another 45,000 minority Rohingya to flee, the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
warned, amid allegations of beheadings, killings and burnings of property.

Clashes have rocked Rakhine State since the Arakan Army (AA) rebels attacked forces of the ruling military government in November, ending a ceasefire that had largely held since a military coup in 2021. The fighting has caught in the middle the Moslem minority group, long considered outsiders by the majority Buddhist residents, either from the government or the rebel side.

The AA says it is fighting for more autonomy for the ethnic Rakhine population in the state, which is also home to an estimated 600,000 members of the persecuted Rohingya Moslem minority, who have chosen to remain in the country.

More than a million Rohingya have taken shelter in neighbouring Bangladesh
[must be pretty bad]
after fleeing Rakhine, including hundreds of thousands in 2017 during an earlier crackdown by the military that is now the subject of a United Nations genocide court case.

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