Indian blockade isolates Myanmar’s Rakhine, pressures Arakan Army to leave Chin State

June 29, 2024

Central Young Lai Association, an Indian civil society organization based in Mizoram, has blockaded the trade route used to import goods from India to war-wrecked Rakhine State through Chin State’s Paletwa Township to pressure the Arakan Army (AA) into leaving Chin State, The Irrawaddy reports. The blockade further isolates Rakhine, which is already suffering from […]Continue Reading

Fighting intensifies on Myanmar’s border with Bangladesh

June 8, 2024

Fighting has intensified along Rakhine State’s border with Bangladesh in southern Maungdaw Township as the Arakan Army (AA) attacks border guard police positions to seize the entire township in the state’s northwest, residents of the township say, The Irrawaddy reports. They said the ethnic army is targeting border guard police positions in the township’s south […]Continue Reading

Myanmar junta kills eleven Rakhine villagers: Residents

June 2, 2024

Myanmar’s junta reportedly killed 11 civilians and destroyed 100 houses during a raid on a village near Rakhine State’s capital, Sittwe, on Wednesday night, The Irrawaddy reports. All Byian Phyu villagers were forced into a field and the houses were searched for evidence of Arakan Army (AA) support. The group is deploying around Sittwe. Around […]Continue Reading

Rohingya forced to fight alongside Myanmar Army tormentors

May 29, 2024

Rohingya mother Sofura Begum has spent years in a squalid refugee camp after fleeing Myanmar. Now her teenage son has been taken to fight alongside the troops that put her there, AFP reports. Militant Rohingya groups in Bangladesh have forcibly recruited hundreds of young Rohingya men and boys to battle the Arakan Army (AA), a […]Continue Reading

Some 45,000 Rohingya flee amid allegations of beheading, burning in Myanmar

May 29, 2024

Escalating violence in conflict-torn Myanmar’s Rakhine State has forced another 45,000 minority Rohingya to flee, the United Nations warned, amid allegations of beheadings, killings and burnings of property, reports Al Jazeera. Clashes have rocked Rakhine State since the Arakan Army (AA) rebels attacked forces of the ruling military government in November, ending a Continue Reading

Myanmar rebel group claims control of town, denies targeting Rohingya

May 19, 2024

A powerful armed ethnic group in Myanmar said on Sunday it had won control over a town in the western state of Rakhine after weeks of fighting, denying accusations it had targeted members of the Muslim-minority Rohingya during the offensive, Reuters reports. Khine Thu Kha, a spokesman for the Arakan Army (AA), said its soldiers […]Continue Reading

KIA claims Myanmar junta helicopter shot down

May 19, 2024

A Myanmar junta helicopter was reportedly shot down in Waingmaw Township on Saturday morning as the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) attacks fresh regime targets, The Irrawaddy reports. The KIA and its allies attacked Infantry Battalion 321 headquarters and 10 junta outposts in Waingmaw Township on Saturday, according to the armed group. KIA spokesman Colonel Naw […]Continue Reading

UN, ASEAN urged to act to save Rohingya from further genocide

May 19, 2024

NEWS DESK Parliamentarians from Southeast Asia urgently called on the United Nations, ASEAN, and the wider international community to take immediate action in order to prevent the mass killing of Rohingya who are under siege by the Arakan Army in northern Rakhine State. “We are extremely alarmed and concerned by reports that the Arakan Army […]Continue Reading

Armed ethnic group says it captured Myanmar town; Rohingyas flee

May 19, 2024

A powerful ethnic armed group fighting Myanmar’s military government in the country’s western state of Rakhine claimed Saturday to have seized a town near the border with Bangladesh, marking the latest in a series of victories for foes of the country’s military government, Associated Press reports. Members of the state’s Muslim Rohingya ethnic Continue Reading

Western volunteers join the battle against Myanmar’s military regime

May 19, 2024

An ex-British soldier and an American fighter are among a small but growing number of foreigners training and fighting alongside anti-coup forces in the war against Myanmar’s military regime, Al Jazeera reports. The volunteers say they were inspired by Myanmar’s resistance, which has stood up to one of the most brutal and well-equipped militaries in […]Continue Reading