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Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi blamed fake news and a misinformation campaign for fueling a crisis that the UN says has now pushed more than 125,000 minority Rohingya Muslims into Bangladesh with tales of atrocities at the hands of security forces. Suu Kyi told Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a phone call Tuesday…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Myanmar of ‘“genocide’” against Rohingya Muslims in the country’s western Rakhine state after a crackdown by security forces last week forced 58,000 to flee their homes for neighbouring Bangladesh, according to UN estimates. “There is a genocide there,” Erdogan said in a speech in Istanbul to mark the Islamic…

At least ten policemen, one army soldier and twenty-one Rohingya Muslim insurgents have been killed in a fresh wave of violent attacks in the northern part of Myanmar’s Rakhine state, official sources said. The militants staged coordinated simultaneous attacks on 19 police outposts that cover 24 villages around Maung Taw and tried unsuccessfully to storm…

LARRY JAGAN The Myanmar military has air-dropped hundreds of troops into the country’s strife-torn western Rakhine state in preparation for a surgical operation intended to route out accused Muslim rebels and insurgents, according to military sources. The deployment of the 33rd Light Infantry Division commenced last Thursday. They were helicoptered into the regional capital Sittwe,…