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

Rohingya being forcibly conscripted in battle between Myanmar and rebels

May 14, 2024

For more than four hours Abdullah* waited in the darkness as soldiers marched 30 of his neighbours from their homes in the Myanmar border state of Rakhine and forced them by gunpoint to join him on the truck that would take them all to a military base. By the morning they were standing in front […]Continue Reading

Five more BGP members take refuge in Bangladesh

May 10, 2024

COX’S BAZAR CORRESPONDENT Five more members of Myanmar’s Border Guard Police (BGP) have sought refuge in Bangladesh, escaping through Sabrang Point on the Naf River in Teknaf sub-district of Cox’s Bazar, amid ongoing internal conflicts in Myanmar, officials said on Thursday. The members entered Bangladesh around 11 a.m. local time on Thursday via a motorboat Continue Reading

In Myanmar war, crucial window looms for junta and rebels

May 8, 2024

In the jungles of southeastern Myanmar’s Dawna Hills, rebels from an armed ethnic group are fighting to hold back columns of reinforcements sent by the country’s ruling junta to try to reclaim Myawaddy, a critical trading outpost on the Thai border, Reuters reports. What happens in the next few weeks in the scramble for Myawaddy […]Continue Reading