he UN representative in Myanmar says the government has given access to foreign diplomats and aid workers in northern Rakhine state, where attacks on police and Rohingya Muslims have flared up.
Foreign diplomats and EU and UN officials were invited by the government early this week to check the three-week surge in violence that was prompted by the killings of nine police officers at border posts with Bangladesh in Maungdaw township on Oct. 9.
Since then, aid workers and media have been seriously restricted from reaching the conflict areas of the northwestern state.
UN coordinator Renata Lok-Dessallien on Friday urged the government to launch an independent investigation into allegations of human rights abuses following her two-day trip to the region.
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