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Mro leaders from Buthidaung related how an help agency arranged meals supplies for their hilltop villages, but mainly because of the terrain had to leave the bags of rice in the valley beneath for collection. Neighborhood Rakhine villagers cut open the rice sacks with knives, destroying the supplies. “They did this because they do not trust us, and for the reason that they never want us to remain about there, in case the Tatmadaw forces us to give intelligence, or we side with the Tatmadaw”. A Mro activist originally from Buthidaung commented, “We reside mainly in the mountains, but we...