Refugees accuse Burmese government of ignoring ethnic cleansing: 'If we stayed, we would have been killed'

Refugees accuse Burma's civilian government of standing by as dozens die in communal violence    

Pete Pattisson, Sittwe, Sunday 28 October 2012    

 

When the fire truck arrived at his burning village in Burma's western Rakhine state late last Monday, local teacher Khin Maung Kyi thought help had finally come. Muslim villagers in Kyauk Pyu township had been battling the blaze for hours, after a petrol bomb attack by their Buddhist neighbours. But instead of dousing the flames with water, Khin Maung Kyi claims that the firemen sprayed the fire with petrol.

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