YANGON: Communal bloodshed in western Myanmar risks developing into "armed
terrorist acts", the government said Wednesday, after homemade firearms
were used in the latest deadly fighting.
The government said 180 guns were
seized during the new wave of conflict between ethnic Rakhine and minority
Rohingya in Rakhine state, which has killed dozens and seen whole neighbourhoods
razed.
It said several people had been
arrested on suspicion of making the weapons.
"The clashes between two
communities are likely to turn from normal unrest to armed terrorist acts after
the security forces were attacked with handmade guns," the government
said, in a statement on the president's website.
Myanmar said both local and
international organisations were "involved" in the conflict, without
elaborating on their identities or exact role.
Decades-old animosity between the
Rakhine and minority Rohingya exploded in June after the apparent rape and
murder of an ethnic Rakhine woman sparked a series of revenge attacks.
The latest clashes have caused
more than 32,000 people to flee their homes this month, the United Nations
refugee agency said, adding to the 75,000 people already displaced after the
earlier fighting.
- AFP/fa
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