Reuters: At least 12 dead in Muslim insurgent attacks in northwest Myanmar
YANGON (Reuters) - At least five police and seven Rohingya Muslim insurgents were killed overnight in Myanmar's Rakhine state, the government said on Friday morning, after militants staged coordinated attacks on 24 police posts and tried breaking into an army base.
The attacks mark a dramatic escalation in a conflict simmering in Rakhine since last October, when similar attacks that killed nine police prompted a massive military counter-offensive beset by allegations of killings, rape and arson.
The military operation then resulted in some 87,000 Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh and the United Nations accused Myanmar's security forces of likely committing crimes against humanity.
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WNU Editor: Talk about timing .... just a day before former UN chief Kofi Annan was warning that the threat of radicalization among the Muslim population would increase if the Rohingya crisis is not resolved .... Myanmar tensions: Annan warns on Rakhine 'radicalisation' (BBC).
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