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The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has reported the widespread deployment of Myanmar security forces in Rakhine State, but also widespread fear there.

After he left Myanmar, security forces removed his wife from her parents' house, blindfolded her, and drove her to a prison where she was interrogated by seven men, he said.

BANGKOK — The Nobel Peace Prize laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was taken to prison by Myanmar security officials on Thursday morning and was scheduled to stand trial later in the day for allowing an American man to stay overnight in her home, an apparent violation of her long-term house arrest, her lawyer said.

"All indications point to the Myanmar security forces deliberately targeting locations that Rohingya refugees use as crossing points," said Tirana Hassan, Amnesty International's crisis response director.

These crimes had been "perpetrated by Myanmar security forces and extremist Buddhist vigilantes," Alam said, calling for an end to what he called "xenophobic rhetoric..including from higher echelons of the government and the military".

A video showing Myanmar police beating Rohingya civilians surfaced this month, amid widespread reports that Myanmar security forces were setting homes on fire and killing, raping and arbitrarily arresting Rohingyas.

In the wake of the violence, Human Rights Watch, based in New York, documented killings, rapes and arrests of Rohingyas by Myanmar's security forces.

The Thai authorities used to see the ethnic insurgents that operated along the border as something of a buffer against Myanmar's security forces.

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Security forces in western Myanmar fired on rioters who burned hundreds of homes in an outbreak of sectarian violence that killed at least seven people, state-controlled news media reported Saturday, adding that calm had been restored.

Tomas Ojea Quintana, the United Nations Human Rights Council's new investigator for Myanmar, said security forces apparently opened fire after prisoners at Insein prison panicked when zinc roofs were blown off during the May 3 cyclone.

Conversely, Myanmar's security forces responded by launching counter-terrorism operations against Rohingya insurgents.