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March 28th, 2014 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Myanmar’s security forces have shot dead an 11-year-old girl during an operation to disperse Buddhist mobs targeting a UN office in the volatile Rakhine state.
Police said on Friday that the girl was shot on Thursday at her home close to a UN World Food Program (WFP) warehouse in the state’s capital Sittwe.
“She was hit when security forces fired warning shots to disperse people at the WFP warehouse,” said Lieutenant Colonel Min Aung.
The unrest in Rakhine broke out late Wednesday when hundreds of Buddhists gathered around the offices of Germany-based medical aid group Malteser International in Sittwe, claiming that an aid worker had handled a religious flag in a disrespectful manner.
They also accuse the humanitarian workers in the region of being biased in favor of local Muslims.
Over 70 aid workers were provided with police protection while the UN’s Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Myanmar Toily Kurbanov said he was “deeply concerned” by the violence.
“I reiterate concern that any reduction of humanitarian presence could negatively affect the protection of vulnerable people,” he said, adding that the organization was “determined” to carry on operating in the region.
The violence come as more than 2,000 people took part in a protest in Myanmar’s city of Yangon against the prospect of the Rohingya Muslims being legally permitted to become citizens.
Myanmar’s government refuses to recognize Rohingya Muslims as citizens and labels them as “illegal” immigrants.
Rohingya Muslims have been denied citizenship since a new citizenship law was enacted in 1982.
Hundreds of Rohingyas are believed to have been killed and thousands displaced in attacks by Buddhist extremists.
MR/NN/HRB
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