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#Rohingya villagers from #LaungDon are running this morning as #Myanmar military is firing them continuously. pic.twitter.com/SqURRVHdTB — Ro Nay San Lwin (@nslwin) November 14, 2016

State media reported that at least 69 people were killed in army raids over the weekend of November 12 and 13, along with 17 soldiers. The military claimed that those killed were “violent attackers”, and the raids are a necessary step in routing out terrorists from the villages of Rakhine State. The attacks are part of same "security sweep" launched by the military in October, in a bid to wipe out a previously unknown Rohingya group called Aqa Lul Mujahidin. This new group is reported to have links to the Organization for Rohingya Security, an armed group that was active in the 1990s but has faded from view in the past few years.The Rohingya are a Muslim minority in the predominantly Buddhist country of Burma. A law passed in 1982 does not allow Rohingya to claim Burmese citizenship – as a result the Rohingya are stateless and subject to restrictions on movement. Decades of an effective apartheid in the country means the Rohingya are subject to intense discrimination.Rakhine State, formerly known as Arakan, on the western coast of the country, has a large Rohingya population. The Burmese army, the Tatmadaw, controls the security forces in the state. Local border guard police and Tatmadaw have been conducting arrests in different villages over the past few days.The Rohingya have been forced to flee as their homes were set alight. Images of charred bodies lying amid the debris of a destroyed village were posted on social media.Authorities stated that the torched villages were a result of the fires “set by violent attackers” , and were not the work of the security forces.An official statement reads: “Violent attackers have also set fire to houses in villages in order to cause misunderstandings about the security forces that are conducting the clearance operations in the township.” The military also denounced “fabricated stories made in collusion with the media” in an attempt “to receive assistance from the international community”.