UNITED NATIONS: The United Kingdom and the United Nations urged the Myanmar’s military to extend its recently announced cease-fire to include the escalating conflict in northern Rakhine and Chin states where civilians are suffering a heavy toll at the time of the Covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic.
The UK Mission to the United Nations made the appeal after a closed meeting of the UN Security Council that it called because of growing concern about fighting in the two states between government forces and the Arakan Army, a well-armed guerrilla force representing the Buddhist Rakhine minority.