“The situation is really bad here,” he says, sitting in a bamboo hut inside an internment camp on the outskirts of Sittwe, capital of Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine state. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Myanmar police officers patrol Maungdaw, Rakhine State, Myanmar, in the wake of October’s attacks. Tin Maung Shwe, a senior Rakhine state official, says security had been boosted across the country. Photograph: Aung Naing Soe for the GuardianMilitancy in Rakhine state is not a recent phenomenon. “They [Myanmar military] looked down on us, ignored us and kept silence by saying that our kalars [a derogatory term for Muslims] do not have anything.

Source: The Guardian November 18, 2016 03:56 UTC