Buddhist Violence Portends New Threat to Myanmar
Ethnic Rakhine Buddhists are fighting national military for autonomy in state that is still grappling with ethnic cleansing of Rohingya
A sharp escalation in fighting between a heavily armed Buddhist militia and Myanmar’s military heralds a new threat to the conflict-ridden nation, just as it is seeing tentative progress in quelling other long-running ethnic and religious violence.
The clashes have dire implications for future peace in the western state of Rakhine—the same state where Myanmar’s military expelled more than 700,000 mainly Muslim Rohingya in a purge beginning in 2017.
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