The Imam in the nearest mosque used a loudspeaker to call on local ... A curfew was imposed in Sittwe immediately after the February riots, which stayed in force for more than two months.

Yangon [Myanmar], January 17 (ANI): Indian Ambassador to Myanmar, Abhay Thakur, reviewed the operations of the Kaladan Project at the Sittwe Port in Myanmar's Rakhine province on January 16-17 ...

and the destruction of mosques, have been commonplace. 1 In February 2001, in the state capital Sittwe, a major frontier and commercial area with sizeable Muslim and Buddhist populations ...