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Southeast Asia
Three Attackers Killed in Myanmar as Violence Persists
2016-10-17
[An Nahar] Three coppers were attacked with machetes in restive northwestern Myanmar on Saturday by assailants who were rubbed out, the military has said, amid lethal violence that authorities have blamed on homegrown Islamist hard boys.

Security forces have killed at least 29 people since attacks were launched a week ago on police posts along the Bangladesh border, according to state media.

The government says the raids in the majority-Moslem region were carried out by an Islamist group led by a Taliban-trained krazed killer who spent months training up to 400 recruits for the attacks with the help of funding from the Middle East.

If true, it could represent an ominous new chapter for Myanmar's Moslem ethnic Rohingya minority, which had so far shown little taste for jihadist ideology despite being one of the most repressed peoples in the world.

The army said assailants armed with machetes on Saturday attacked three coppers in Lake Ai village in Maungdaw, one of the main towns in the restive northern state of Rakhine.

"Security officers shot them (the attackers) dead as they bravely ran away after the attack," the military said in a statement.

The police were apparently not injured, according to media reports.

Troops have poured into Rakhine since the latest violence broke out, locking down an area where most residents are Rohingya.

Posted by:Fred

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