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Nine police killed in attack in Myanmar’s Rakhine: police

The northern Rakhine state has been plagued by violence, and armed forces are now waging a war against a militant group claiming to represent the state’s ethnic Rakhine Buddhists. [AFP]

Nine policemen have been killed in a militant attack in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state, police said on Sunday, as tensions ratchet up in a state riven by ethnic and religious conflict.

A bloody military crackdown in 2017 forced some 740,000 Rohingya Muslims over the border into Bangladesh in violence UN investigators have said warrants the prosecution of top generals for genocide and crimes against humanity.

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