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Myanmar forces kill 3 in raid on ‘terrorist training camps’: state media
Myanmar security forces have killed three people in raids on "terrorist" training camps run by Rohingya Muslim militants in the north of Rakhine state, state media reported on Thursday.
Guns, ammunition and gunpowder were found at the camps in the Mayu Mountains, part of a remote strip of land on the
More than 70,000 Rohingya have fled the area to nearby Bangladesh since
Rohingya escapees have told harrowing accounts of security officers slaughtering babies, burning people alive and staging gang rapes — abuses UN investigators said may amount to crimes against humanity.
Myanmar denies the claims and says troops were conducting valid clearance operations to crush a Rohingya insurgency.
The government has refused to allow in a UN fact-finding mission to investigate.
The training camps found this week were allegedly run by the same group that carried out the October raids that killed nine policemen, according to state media.
The report said security forces killed three “armed attackers in self-defence” during the
The militants, now called the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), were
The report also blamed the “terrorists” for a recent spate of murders of villagers and local community leaders that
The ARSA has denied killing any civilians, saying it is fighting for the political rights of the oppressed Rohingya.
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Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, whose civilian government ended decades of military rule last year, has faced global criticism for not defending the Rohingya — who are maligned by the Buddhist majority — or condemning the army’s brutal crackdown. DM