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Southeast Asia
Myanmar Blames Rohingya Militants for Border Attack
2012-11-24
[An Nahar] Myanmar authorities on Friday accused a Rohingya krazed killer group of carrying out an attack that left one dead and three people missing -- including a soldier -- near the Bangladesh border.

The incident in Rakhine State, where scores have died in two rounds of communal unrest between Rohingya Mohammedans and Buddhists, took place on November 6 as the soldier and civilian engineers inspected a border fence near Maungdaw.

"One of the civilian staff was killed. We assume he was shot in the back when he tried to run away," presidential office front man Zaw Htay said.

There has been no news on the whereabouts of the missing trio despite Bangladeshi border guards joining the hunt.

He said the authorities were blaming the RSO (Rohingya Solidarity Organization) "which is illegally moving across the border. But we cannot say exactly yet."

Tip-offs and bullet cases found at scene indicated the group carried out the attack, he added, without providing further details.

The U.S. State Department has described the RSO as a Bangladesh-based krazed killer group that has conducted attacks in the border area since tens of thousands of Mohammedans fled Rakhine to the neighboring country after a Myanmar's military crackdown in the early 1990s.

Two major outbreaks of violence in Rakhine since June this year have left 180 dead and more than 110,000, most of them the Mohammedan Rohingya, crammed into makeshift camps.
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