Myanmar, also known as Burma, has told Medecins sans frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) to cease operations within the country.
The country claims the aid agency needed to leave as MSF was increasing tension and issues within Rakhine, reports The Associated Press. Protests have spring up as the group continues to provide medical treatment for the Rohingya Muslim minority.
MSF is surprised by the government's decision and released a statement noting, "Today for the first time in MSF's history of operations in the country, HIV/AIDS clinics in Rakhine, Shan and Kachin states, as well as Yangong division, were closed" and patients turned away.
According to BBC News, the aid group has been helping the long-discriminated Rohingya who are displaced from their homes and are often treated quite poorly in the country.
Myanmar claims that MSF treats the Rohingya, often considered Bangladeshis by many in the country, before treating others.
The government also wasn't pleased that the aid agency claims that they had to help the minority group after a massacre at the hands of Buddhists. Myanmar has denied that there were any deaths or injuries.
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