Showing posts with label West Myanmar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label West Myanmar. Show all posts

Sunday, June 28, 2020

Thousands in western Myanmar flee as army plans operations, monitors say

bdnews24.com
Reuters
 28 Jun 2020
Myanmar army soldiers walk along a road near Laukkai. (Reuters Photo/Soe Zeya Tun)b


Thousands of villagers have fled their homes in Myanmar’s Rakhine state after a local administrator warned dozens of village leaders that the army planned “clearance operations” against insurgents, a lawmaker and a humanitarian group said.

But a government spokesman said late on Saturday an evacuation order issued by border-affairs officials had been revoked. Border affairs acknowledged issuing the order through the local administrator but said it affected fewer villages.