Myanmar’s Weaponization of COVID-19
them right now,” he said.78
There are estimated to be more than 160,000 people who have been displaced by
fighting in Rakhine and Chin States since December 2018 according to the Rakhine Ethnics
Congress.79
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May 2020. Available at: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/military-column-05072020170849.html
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