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Airstrike · RakhineAt 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…See the Story
Junta shelling, airstrikes kill 25 Rohingyas in Myanmar’s Rakhine state
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Sittwe · SittweThe leader of the Arakan Army (AA), Twam Mrat Naing, called for residents in Arakan State to prepare “for the decisive battle in the state” in a message that marked the 15th anniversary of the AA’s founding on April 10th. In his message, Naing also urged residents “trapped in areas controlled by the enemy such as Sittwe and Kyaukphyu should move to the liberated areas soon. Necessary preparations must be made for the final battle.” Naing also ur…See the Story
Arakan Army Leader Urges Residents to Leave Sittwe and Kyaukphyu Before “Decisive Battle”
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A Myanmar police officer patrols the Thet Kae Pyin camp in Sittwe township where Rohingya Muslims have been confined since 2012, Rakhine State, Myanmar, September 7, 2016.
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(Bangkok) – The Myanmar military has abducted and forcibly recruited more than 1,000 Rohingya Muslim men and boys from across Rakhine State since February 2024, Human Rights Watch said today. The junta is using…See the Story
Myanmar: Military Forcibly Recruiting Rohingya
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Rakhine · RakhineOver the past five months, the army has lost territory in northern Shan state and in Rakhine state in the west, and is under growing attack elsewhere.See the Story
Myanmar military begins basic training for draftees as resistance forces keep the pressure on
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United Nations · RakhineA Chinese delegation has traveled to Myanmar in a bid to end the conflict between the junta and the Arakan Army in western Rakhine state, Beijing’s envoy to the United Nations said Thursday, but observers suggest there will be no peace unless the military regime makes significant concessions. In November, the Arakan Army, or AA, ended a ceasefire agreement with the military that had been in place since the military seized control of Myanmar in …See the Story
Chinese delegation in Myanmar in bid to end conflict in western Rakhine state
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Rohingya · RakhineJunta airstrikes and artillery bombardments in western Myanmar's Rakhine state have killed 79 Rohingya Muslims. Ethnic Arakan Army rebels ended a ceasefire with the military in November. Some 1 million Rohingya refugees have been living across the border in Bangladesh since 2017. Another 630,000 living within Myanmar are designated stateless by the United Nations.See the Story
Airstrikes, artillery kill 79 Rohingya, injure 127 since start of Rakhine conflict
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Sittwe · Sittweစစ်တွေမြို့နယ် မောင်နီပြင်ကျေးရွာအုပ်စု ဒုံးပြင်ရွာမှာ စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်သားနှစ်ဦးက လက်ပစ်ဗုံးတစ်လုံးနဲ့ ပစ်ခတ်ခဲ့တာကြောင့် ရိုဟင်ဂျာ နှစ်ဦးသေဆုံးပြီး သုံးဦးဒဏ်ရာရသွားခဲ့ပါတယ်။See the Story
စစ်တွေမှာ စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်ရဲ့ လက်ပစ်ဗုံးကြောင့် ရိုဟင်ဂျာ နှစ်ဦးသေ၊ သုံးဦးဒဏ်ရာရ
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