A Myanmar police officer guarding a checkpoint in Buthidaung, Rakhine State, last month. The UN human rights office had warned that the Rohingya civilians were under attack from both the military and ethnic armed group fighting it. — Filepic/AP
AN escalating civil war threatens to break apart a country of roughly 55 million people that sits between China and India. That has international consequences, but the conflict hasn’t commanded wide attention.
Over the past seven months, resistance fighters in Myanmar’s hinterlands have been defeating the ruling military junta in battle after battle, stunning analysts. That raises the possibility that the junta could be at risk of collapsing.
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