Other accounts of police violence emerged from the June 2012 attacks, fuelling speculation of official complicity in what unfolded in Rakhine State that year. They would also circulate in the violence that came the following year, in towns in central Myanmar where security forces were caught on camera standing and watching inert as Buddhist mobs attacked Muslims. By then it was clear that both Rakhine political parties and the government had little intention of safeguarding the lives of Rohingya, for they had long been denied even the meagre protections afforded to others. But the accounts of
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