YANGON: At least two policemen were killed in coordinated attacks an unknown group mounted early Sunday morning on security posts in the impoverished Rakhine state along Myanmar’s border with Bangladesh, an official and police said. The assaults hit three border posts around 1:30 am near Maungdaw in Rakhine and seized a number of weapons from the border posts. The Muslim Rohingya are largely confined to camps and slapped with restrictions that rights groups have likened to apartheid. Compared with the country’s civil war-ravaged eastern and northern border states, Rakhine does not boast a significant rebel military presence. In May armed attackers stormed a security post at a camp for Rohingya refugees in southern Bangladesh just across the border from Maungdaw.

Source: Manila Times October 09, 2016 10:07 UTC