The Foreign Ministry summoned Naypyidaw's envoy Myo Myint Than on Thursday to express concern over the crisis in Myanmar's Buddhist majority western Rakhine state bordering Bangladesh. He said the envoy was told that thousands of Myanmar citizens continued to make their ways to Bangladesh despite tightened border vigil. "Dhaka requested Naypyidaw to initiate urgent measures so that the Muslim minorities are not forced to seek shelter across the border," the statement read. Witnesses and media reports suggested paramilitary coastguards joined the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) to enforce a tighter vigil on the borders with Myanmar to prevent the Rohingya influx. Myanmar troops poured into the western state of Rakhine along the frontier with Bangladesh in response to coordinated attacks on three border posts on October 9 that killed nine police officers.

Source: The Nation Bangkok November 25, 2016 03:06 UTC