(AP Photo)YANGON -- Suspected insurgents killed at least six members of a Buddhist ethnic minority in western Myanmar on Thursday, the government and regional sources said, amid spiralling violence in troubled Rakhine state. Muslim-majority Northern Rakhine was plunged into violence last October when Rohingya insurgents killed nine police in coordinated attacks on border guard posts. In the ensuing military operation, security forces allegedly shot villagers at random, raped Rohingya women and burned down houses. Ms Suu Kyi is refusing to cooperate with a UN fact-finding mission set up to look into abuses in Rakhine and elsewhere. Security forces had begun an "intensive clearance operation" to hunt the killers on Thursday, a military officer in Rakhine said.

Source: Bangkok Post August 04, 2017 07:22 UTC