"The first sight as you approach Maungdaw along a bumpy dirt road, after taking the daily ferry from Sittwe to Buthidaung, is a ?Welcome to Maungdaw? gateway erected in 2000. A devastating blaze and alleged clashes between security forces and Muslims which rights groups say left dozens killed and a policeman missing have once again pitted Maungdaw township?s Rakhine and Rohingya communities against each other. A devastating blaze and alleged clashes between security forces and Muslims which rights groups say left dozens killed and a policeman missing have once again pitted Maungdaw township?s Rakhine and Rohingya communities against each other. There are hints of trouble – the glass in its clock tower was cracked during violence in June 2012 and remains unrepaired; signboards in town carry messages such as ?People can be safe if there is rule of law? and ?Our town will be developed if there is peace and stability? – but for the most part Maungdaw appears peaceful. In reality, it has for many years been torn between two very different – some would say irreconcilable – societies."