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Aung Sang Suu Kyi's office accuses aid workers of helping 'terrorists' in Myanmar
Source: The Guardian
Aung Sang Suu Kyi's office accuses aid workers of helping 'terrorists' in Myanmar
Human rights groups say Suu Kyi must stop ‘profoundly irresponsible’ accusations which could prove deadly amid violence in Rakhine state
Oliver Holmes, Southeast Asia correspondent
Monday 28 August 2017 07.25 BST
Aung San Suu Kyi’s office has accused international aid workers of helping “terrorists”, a claim that has prompted fears for their safety and been condemned as dangerously irresponsible.
The state counsellor office said it had learned that international aid staff had “participated while extremist terrorists besieged” a village in Rakhine state, adding it would investigate the claims.
The office, headed by Suu Kyi who is the country’s de facto leader, also posted a photo of United Nations world food programme biscuits which it said were found on 30 July “at the camp where terrorists sheltered”.
The government statements come during a time of spiralling anti-Muslim sentiment, stoked by hardline religious leaders in majority Buddhist Myanmar who accuse UN agencies, with little evidence, of supporting a faction of Islamist militants.
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Human rights groups say Suu Kyi must stop ‘profoundly irresponsible’ accusations which could prove deadly amid violence in Rakhine state
Oliver Holmes, Southeast Asia correspondent
Monday 28 August 2017 07.25 BST
Aung San Suu Kyi’s office has accused international aid workers of helping “terrorists”, a claim that has prompted fears for their safety and been condemned as dangerously irresponsible.
The state counsellor office said it had learned that international aid staff had “participated while extremist terrorists besieged” a village in Rakhine state, adding it would investigate the claims.
The office, headed by Suu Kyi who is the country’s de facto leader, also posted a photo of United Nations world food programme biscuits which it said were found on 30 July “at the camp where terrorists sheltered”.
The government statements come during a time of spiralling anti-Muslim sentiment, stoked by hardline religious leaders in majority Buddhist Myanmar who accuse UN agencies, with little evidence, of supporting a faction of Islamist militants.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/28/aung-sang-suu-kyis-office-accuses-aid-workers-of-helping-terrorists-in-myanmar
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