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Myanmar reopens border gate with Bangladesh

Myanmar has reopened the border gate Number 1 with Bangladesh, which was temporarily closed following attacks on three border posts in October 2016, the country’s State Counsellor’s Office said on February 16.
Myanmar reopens border gate with Bangladesh ảnh 1 Myanmar - Bangladesh border gate (Photo: oneindia.com)
Hanoi (VNA) – Myanmar has reopenedthe border gate Number 1 with Bangladesh, which was temporarily closedfollowing attacks on three border posts in October 2016, the country’s StateCounsellor’s Office said on February 16.

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The border gate was reopened for entry anddeparture in Maungtaw town, Rakhine State, last weekend due to the restorationof peace and stability in the region after Myanmar negotiated with Bangladesh. 

The surprise attack on Kyukanpyin border postin Maungtaw and Kotankauk post in Rathedaung town and Ngakhuya Office on October9 last year prompted the closure of all Myanmar’s border gates with Bangladeshover the past four months. 

Armed men of the Rohingya SolidarityOrganisation (RSO) were accused of the attacks. It is a small armed groupd ofRohingya people active in the 1980s and 1990s but has not been heard from innearly two decades. 

Recently, Myanmar’s Sittway district court hashanded out the death sentence to Uruma, one of the captured attackers. Theremaining 13 suspects are still under investigation. 

Rakhine State has been split on religiousgrounds between Buddhists and Islamic Rohingya people since 2012, killingscores and forcing tens of thousands to flee.-VNA

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