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Tag: Arakan Army (AA) troops

January 11, 2025

Rakhine Rebels Seize First Police Station...

The Arakan Army has seized a police station in the Ayeyarwaddy region, the first in Myanmar’s heartland to fall to the ethnic Rakhine rebels since the 2021 military coup.

August 17, 2022

Clashes Between Junta Forces and Arakan...

Renewed fighting between Myanmar regime forces and the Arakan Army has intensified in Rakhine and Chin states with at least 10 clashes since July 18, following the dissolution of a fragile cease-fire that had held for a year and a half, residents of the western states told RFA

November 19, 2020

Landmine Deaths Break Quiet But Myanmar’s...

Nine members of an extended family from a village in Maungdaw township were traveling home from a Buddhist alms-giving ceremony when their vehicle hit the mine. Kyaw Ye Aung, 25, his wife Aye Sann Nu, 20, and their son Kyaw Hsan Oo, 3 were killed, while four severely injured family members were taken to a hospital in the state capital Sittwe on Wednesday

October 28, 2020

Violence and Tensions in Chin and...

More than 60,000 civilians in the Burmese State of Chin are currently facing a severe food shortage due to the ongoing fighting between the national army and the Arakan Army rebels

July 16, 2020

Grisly Death Highlights Increasing Civilian Detentions...

Civilian detentions, a controversial Myanmar army practice during decades of wars with ethnic armies, are on the rise in the southern part of Rakhine, which had been relatively untouched by the armed conflict that has ravaged the northern section of the state for 19 months, those familiar with the situation told RFA

June 4, 2020

Myanmar Forces Arrest Two Village Officials...

The arrests come as Myanmar’s military is increasingly using the country’s Counter-Terrorism Law to prosecute civilians and local officials for alleged ties to the rebel force. The army has been stepping up its offensives a 17-month-long campaign to crush the AA’s armed drive for greater autonomy for ethnic Rakhines in the state

May 14, 2020

Myanmar Army Acknowledges Unlawful Interrogation Methods...

statement posted around 8 a.m. on the website of the military commander-in-chief’s office said the government army will take legal action against security personnel who conducted unlawful interrogations of the civilians

May 8, 2020

Myanmar Military Column, Artillery Firings Displace...

Nearly 10,000 displaced villagers in Chin’s remote Paletwa township are in urgent need of shelter before the start of the annual monsoon season later this month, with local officials pledging to build modest bamboo structures for them

April 8, 2020

War Refugees in Myanmar’s Rakhine State...

Local administrators, lawmakers, and civil society organizations are working together to build 500 living quarters for the IDPs on five acres of township land before annual torrential rains begin in late May, said Khin Saw Wai, a lawmaker from Rathedaung township

March 12, 2020

Myanmar’s Arakan Army Captures 30 Government...

Other officers and soldiers from Myanmar’s government army had also been captured in 2019, Khine Thukha said, while declining to give more detailed information for reasons of security

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