YANGON: Buddhist hardliners backed by monks protested in Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine state against help being offered to desperate migrants found adrift on boats in the Bay of Bengal.
Rakhine, one of Myanmar’s poorest states, is a tinderbox of tension between its Buddhist majority and a persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority, many of whom live in displacement camps after deadly unrest erupted there in 2012.
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