Tun Myat Naing says troops trained for more than a year before engaging with the AA in Rakhine state.
Several protesters are taken to hospital with injuries after riot police break up a blockade.
A Holocaust survivor urges the international community to work to end rights abuses in Xinjiang.
Gao Zhisheng has been forcibly disappeared for more than 600 days, and his family just wants him to be allowed home.
