Occurred in Myanmar
on October 31, 2019, at 11:30 AM
Reported by komin via Internet
on October 31, 2019, at 5:20 PM
in Myanmar
This rumour is confirmed true
and is of high priority
– here's why:
MRAUK U, Myanmar—Here in the town of Mrauk U, in Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine state, there has been little to celebrate during this October’s Thadingyut, the second-most important annual festival of the Buddhist calendar. Normally, the auspicious full moon would be hailed with a floating armada of delicate candlelit paper lanterns and song, theater, and dance.
Instead, at 9 p.m. sharp, a curfew falls as soldiers from the Myanmar Army, known as the Tatmadaw, emerge from their posts to pull barbed wire and steel barricades across roads. Shops and businesses shutter, the streets empty and lights flickering out.
Yet this year, there are no celebrations.
Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/31/rohingya-refugees-myanmar-attacking-buddhists-rakhine/