Myanmar’s ethnic conflicts are a hugely complex mosaic
ago ethnic cleansing by the army forced 700,000 Muslim Rohingyas to flee Rakhine state, in western Myanmar, and seek sanctuary across the border in Bangladesh. On August 22nd, outside dismal refugee camps near Cox’s Bazar, buses and lorries lined up for the first of many envisaged repatriations taking Rohingyas back home. But there was a hitch: not a single Rohingya came forward.
Would that the displacement of the Rohingyas was Myanmar’s only source of ethnic conflict. Even in Rakhine state a far more violent insurgency is being fought by a group which claims to have little in common with the central government apart from a shared hatred for Rohingyas. The Arakan Army is fighting to defend the interests of the Buddhist Rakhine in a country so often run on behalf of its Burman majority.
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