Violence Shakes Myanmar’s Rakhine State During Ethnic Rally<br />"And they just push Rakhine people around as their slaves." Ethnic Rakhine Buddhists have also been angered by an announcement by the Myanmar government<br />that it will accept back a limited number of Rohingya Muslim refugees who have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar in recent months.<br />More than 655,000 Rohingya have fled western Myanmar since August, when an attack on police posts by Rohingya insurgents catalyzed a brutal campaign of rape, murder<br />and arson by Myanmar’s army and associated ethnic Rakhine vigilantes.<br />Most of the dead were Rohingya, and many of the Rohingya remain in internment camps set up by Myanmar’s government,<br />while ethnic Rakhine affected by the 2012 violence were long ago allowed to integrate back into society.<br />"But my brother is just a writer who also loves charity work." Dr. Aye Maung noted<br />that his position in Parliament could give him immunity from any charges, but nevertheless called the legal action "hitting with an ax instead of with a pin." In his earlier speech, Dr. Aye Maung had made his feelings known about the ethnic Bamar, who make up Myanmar’s majority, including its civilian and military leadership.<br />17, 2018<br />HONG KONG — Violence has again convulsed the western state of Rakhine in Myanmar, the same region where the<br />United Nations has accused the country’s authorities of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya minority.<br />For years before the Rohingya crisis exploded, Myanmar’s military battled the<br />Arakan Army, a guerrilla group fighting for the rights of ethnic Rakhine.
