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Myanmar vowed yesterday to protect UN and humanitarian aid workers seeking to return to the strife-torn state of Rakhine after rampaging Buddhist mobs attacked the workers' homes and offices.

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A former US congressman who visited camps housing tens of thousands of people displaced by communal violence in western Myanmar is warning that minority Rohingya Muslims face a life-threatening lack of medical care and live in fear of attack.

[DatePublished] => 2014-03-25 07:06:48 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510042 [AuthorName] => Matthew Pennington [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 816692 [Title] => Food shortages add to misery in Myanmar strife [Summary] =>

Heavy rain Wednesday brought an uneasy calm to western Myanmar after five days of deadly sectarian strife, though residents said they were too afraid to sleep at night and faced food shortages.

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Gunshots rang out and residents fled blazing homes in western Myanmar on yesterday as security forces struggled to contain deadly ethnic and religious violence that has killed at least a dozen people and forced thousands to flee.

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With residents cowering indoors, security forces patrolling a tense town in western Myanmar collected bodies yesterday from homes burned to ashes in some of the country's deadliest sectarian bloodshed in years.

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Authorities in western Myanmar imposed new curfews Sunday to keep deadly clashes between local Buddhists and Muslim Bengalis from escalating.

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