Taungup or Toungup Township (Burmese: တောင်ကုတ်မြို့နယ်) is a township of Thandwe District in the Rakhine State of Myanmar. The principal town is Taungup.
10 Muslims were killed during a riot at there in June 2012 after increasing tension between Muslims and Rakhine upon a Rakhine girl was gang raped and murdered allegedly by 3 Muslims near Ramree in May 2012.
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“A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,—such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)