Junta shelling, airstrikes kill 25 Rohingyas in Myanmar’s Rakhine state

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Junta shelling, airstrikes kill 25 Rohingyas in Myanmar’s Rakhine state

At least 25 ethnic Rohingya civilians were killed and thousands forced to flee their homes amid junta airstrikes and heavy artillery over the weekend in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state, according to residents. Fighting between the ethnic Rakhine Arakan Army, or AA, and the Arakan Resistance Solidarity Army, or ARSA, of junta-supported Rohingya fighters began April 12 in Rakhine’s Buthidaung township, residents told RFA Burmese on Monday, speaki…