Mro ethnic people displaced from the surge of fighting between ethnic armed rebel group of the Arakan Army and government troops take refuge at a compound of a Buddhist pagoda are seen during a government-organized visit for journalists in Buthidaung township in the restive Rakhine state. An internet blackout in Myanmar's northwest entered a second year on June 21, 2020 as locals and rights groups appealed for an end to the world's longest internet shutdown in a zone where scores have died in 18 months of conflict. - AFP
YANGON (AFP): The internet shutdown in Myanmar's conflict-ridden northwest, described by rights groups as the world's longest, entered a second year Sunday (June 21) with locals and campaigners appealing for an end to the blackout as coronavirus fears grip the region.
The Myanmar military has been embroiled in a bloody civil war since January 2019 against the Arakan Army (AA), an insurgent group fighting for more autonomy for ethnic Rakhine Buddhists.
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