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US demands end to mobile data blackouts in parts of Myanmar
- Monday | 1st July, 2019
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Saturday urged an immediate end to a mobile data blackouts in parts of two Myanmar states, saying a service restoration would help provide transparency to what the government says are law enforcement actions to avert unrest. On Monday, Yanghee Lee, the special UN rapporteur who monitors human rights in Myanmar, said the Myanmar military was conducting a “clearance operation” against Arakan Army rebels in the blacked out areas. She said she feared troops were committing “gross human rights violations” against civilians under the cover of the shutdown. The Arakan Army, an insurgent group fighting for greater autonomy for Rakhine state, recruits from the state’s ethnic Rakhine Buddhist majority. Rakhine state made world headlines in 2017 when the Myanmar military, responding to militant attacks, launched a crackdown that prompted some 730,000 minority Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh.
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