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Seven ethnic Rakhine Buddhists died after Myanmar police opened fire on a crowd trying to seize a government office, officials said Wednesday, in fresh violence in a febrile state already scarred by ethnic and religious hatred.<\/p>\n

The incident unfurled as around 5,000 Buddhists gathered late Tuesday for a nationalist ceremony in Mrauk U, a town that has so far remained unscathed by the military's crackdown on the region's minority Rohingya Muslim community.<\/p>\n

It was not immediately clear why the rally descended into violence.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But ethnic Rakhine, many of whom are poor and marginalised, have a long-standing enmity with the Myanmar state which is dominated by ethnic Bamar.<\/p>\n

The clashes came on the same day that a repatriation agreement was signed between Myanmar and Bangladesh to start the return of some 655,000 Muslim Rohingya refugees from squalid camps over the border.<\/p>\n

Rakhine say the Rohingya are illegal \"Bengali\" immigrants to a Buddhist land.<\/p>\n

A police spokesman blamed the crowd for \"starting the violence\" by throwing stones and barging into a district administrative office and hoisting the Rakhine State flag.<\/p>\n

\"Security forces asked them to disperse and fired warning shots with rubber bullets... but they didn't stop, so police had to use real bullets,\" spokesman Colonel Myo Soe told AFP.<\/p>\n

\"Seven people were killed and 13 injured,\" he said adding more than 20 police were wounded by the crowd, who were calling for the \"sovereignty of Rakhine state\".<\/p>\n

Photographs showed bodies laid out on the floor of a makeshift mortuary in Mrauk U on Wednesday, the clothes of the victims stained with blood.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The shootings further raise the temperature in an already combustible area of Myanmar.<\/p>\n

\"It's not forgivable that they used guns,\" Mrauk U lawmaker Oo Hla Saw of the Arakan National Party said, confirming the death toll and labelling the police action \"a crime\".<\/p>\n

Witness Nyi Nyi Khant, 29, said the clashes could have been prevented if the police had intervened earlier.<\/p>\n

\"The police had time to prepare to stop the crowd before they reached the office,\" he told AFP. \"They could have blocked the street but they did not do that.\"<\/p>\n

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Mrauk U, home to an ancient Buddhist complex of the last Rakhine kingdom, lies a few dozen kilometres from the epicentre of violence that saw Rohingya driven in their hundreds of thousands into Bangladesh since last August.<\/p>\n

The military led a brutal crackdown against the Rohingya after militant attacks against border posts killed around a dozen police.<\/p>\n

Rohingya say security forces, backed by hardline Rakhine mobs, torched hundreds of Rohingya villages and forced them to flee.<\/p>\n

Refugees arriving in Bangladesh have brought with them consistent testimony of murder, rape and arson in the violence justified by the army as a legitimate response to the militant attacks.<\/p>\n

Already shredded by communal hatreds, Rakhine state also has a Buddhist rebel group called the Arakan Army which is fighting Myanmar's army.<\/p>\n

The clashes garner little attention in a state dominated by violence against the Rohingya and in a country where several larger ethnic insurgencies are burning.<\/p>\n

Observers warned Tuesday's violence could open a new chapter of unrest in the febrile state.<\/p>\n

The United Nations said it \"deplored\" the loss of life and urged an investigation into \"any disproportionate use of force\".<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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