Buddhist mob disrupts aid delivery to Rohingya
YANGON— Myanmar police fired warning shots to disperse a mob that threw petrol bombs and tried to block an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) boat in Rakhine State, where tens of thousands were believed to be in urgent need of aid, state-backed media said on Thursday. Tensions remained high across Rakhine where raids by Rohingya militants at the end of last month sparked a massive Army crackdown and an unprecedented exodus of the Muslim group, which the United Nations has called “ethnic cleansing.” A 300-strong mob in the Buddhist-majority state capital Sittwe massed late on Wednesday to harass ICRC volunteers who traveled in the boat with the aid shipment.