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President asked to expel MSF from Rakhine State

Doctor from MSF medical team asking for the history of illness of a child with diarrhoea at MSF clinic in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Pauk Taw township, February 3, 2013. (Photo: Kaung Htet / MSF) By Kyal Pyar and Kay Zue Mizzima News February 17, 2014 Residents of Rakhine State have sent a petition to President U Thein Sein asking him to expel Medicins Sans Frontieres, the head of a women’s group told Mizzima on February 15. The President has been asked to expel MSF from the state by the end of the month because Rakhine people were dissatisfied with its work, said the chair of the Rakhine Women’s Network, Daw Nyo Aye. The demand follows a series of protests held in big towns in Rakhine State since February 3 at which Myanmar and foreign non-government organizations were accused of showing discrimination in providing assistance to victims of communal violence. The protests had also demanded that all NGOs leave the state within a week. The decision to write to the