The Arakan National Party (ANP) denied accusations that it had joined hands with the Arakan Army (AA) to create clashes with government forces in order to destabilise Rakhine State.
Tun Aung Kyaw, general secretary of the ANP, was questioned about Facebook accusations that the party collaborated with the AA to destabilise the new state government formed by the National League for Democracy.
The ANP won a majority of seats in the Rakhine State parliament in November's election but the NLD, which only won eight state seats, used its constitutional right to select all the regional governments and chief ministers. The ANP declared it would work in opposition to the new state administration.
Tun Aung Kyaw said the party policy for what is one of the poorest states was that it could never participate in violence. (Courtesy of Eleven Myanmar)
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