Authorities in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state have revoked an order requiring Rakhine Buddhist families to vacate land in a former Muslim area of Sittwe township that was razed eight years ago during a flare-up of sectarian violence, RFA reported.

The May 14 order was revoked on May 19, frustrating members of the Muslim community originally displaced from their homes in Sittwe’s Seyton Su Muslim quarter, who called the rescinding of the order evicting thousands of squatters from their former land evidence of a lack of the rule of law in the conflict-torn region.