The UN’s refugee arm said on Wednesday it had permission from Thailand to access some 850 people, many thought to be from Myanmar’s Rohingya minority, held after raids on hidden camps in the Thai...
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- May 26, 2013
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Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has urged the government to send more troops to western Myanmar to restore peace to a region gripped by violence between Buddhists and Muslims.
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Aung San Suu Kyi has declined to speak out on behalf of Rohingya Muslims and insisted she will not use "moral leadership" to back either side in deadly communal unrest in west Myanmar.
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