Myanmar on Friday defended deployment of its troops near the Bangladesh border, where thousands of Rohingya refugees have taken shelter, calling it an “anti-terrorism operation“. A large number of army personnel along with 10 trucks loaded with heavy arms and ammunition were dispatched on the Tambru side of the border strip on Thursday. In the evening, the army personnel fired multiple rounds. The move has drawn criticism from Bangladesh, which summoned Myanmar’s newly appointed ambassador in Dhaka, Lwin Oo on the same day, while the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) raised their concerns at the military build-up. The agency estimates that about 1,300 families, or approximately 5,300 people, live near a canal in the so-called no man’s land. Bangladeshi officials estimated that 6,500 were sheltering there.