The Briefing Room
General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on August 27, 2017, 07:50:29 am
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At Least 71 Dead in Muslim Insurgent Attacks in Northwest Myanmar
Muslim militants in Myanmar staged a coordinated attack on 30 police posts and an army base in Rakhine state on Friday, and at least 59 of the insurgents
and 12 members of the security forces were killed, the army and
government said.
The fighting - still going on in some areas - marked a major escalation in a simmering conflict in the northwestern state since last October, when similar attacks prompted a big military sweep beset by allegations of serious human rights abuses.
The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), a group previously known as Harakah al-Yaqin, which instigated the October attacks, claimed responsibility for the early morning offensive, and warned of more.
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