OPINION

Myanmar govt faces its next Rakhine showdown

News, Larry Jagan, Published on 27/04/2018

» International pressure is again mounting on the Myanmar government over its treatment of ethnic communities in the strife-torn western region of Rakhine. Unprecedented violence there over the last 12 months has forced more than 700,000 Muslim refugees -- or Rohingya -- to flee to neighbouring Bangladesh for safety.