Unknown six months ago, the group has ignited a conflict in Rakhine State that has marred Myanmar's transition toward democracy and confronted leader Aung San Suu Kyi with her biggest crisis yet. Communal tensions have long-festered in northwestern Rakhine State, where 1.1 million Rohingya Muslims live in apartheid-like conditions, often despised by the Buddhist majority. Their accounts, which could not be independently verified, shed new light on how the group prepared for its campaign. Once he came across 30 people training in a forest clearing near his village with wooden dummy weapons. A Myanmar policeman stands in a check point outside Rohingya refugee camp in Sittwe, Myanmar March 3, 2017.

Source: bd News24 March 10, 2017 14:06 UTC