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Channel News Asia
19 Mar 2019
Ethnic Mro refugees displaced by fighting between Arakan Army rebels and Myanmar soldiers gather at a pagoda compound during a January 2019 government-organised visit to Buthidaung, in the restive Rakhine state. (AFP/Richard SARGENT)
YANGON: Fighting between Myanmar's military and ethnic Rakhine insurgents has now reached the ancient temples of Mrauk U, the former capital of the Rakhine kingdom and a popular tourist site, local residents said on Monday (Mar 18).
Rakhine state in Myanmar's west is riven with ethnic and religious divisions.