Internally displaced people rest in a monastery turned into a temporary shelter in Rakhine State’s Pauktaw Township on November 23. (AFP)

‘Everyone was in a panic’: Residents flee Myanmar’s military in Rakhine State

Dozens of families lie on mats surrounded by their belongings at a Buddhist monastery in Rakhine State, the latest to be uprooted by a civil war that has displaced hundreds of thousands.

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