Civil Society: Need to Fight Internet...

Among the 105 organisations seeking the restoration of Internet access in Rakhine and Chin are the Shan State Peace Organisation, Peace Committee of Rakhine State Civilian Organisation, Rakhine Women’s Network, Rakhine Women’s Union and the Rakhine State Peace and Stability Support Team. “In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, prohibiting people from access to information is a human rights violation

Arakan Army Releases Detained Chin Lawmaker...

Chin state lawmaker Whay Tin, a member of Myanmar’s ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party, was detained on Nov. 3 because the AA believed he was a Myanmar military informant who had helped soldiers arrest ethnic Rakhines in Chin’s Paletwa township

Aid Group Ends Food Program in...

On Jan. 6, the IRC ended its Tat Lan program that provided sustainable food security and improved nutrition and livelihoods to villages in Rakhine’s Myebon, Pauktaw, Kyaukphyu, and Minbya townships

Arakan Army Seizes Ferry, Unveils Taxation...

Soe Aung, head of the administration department in northern Rakhine’s Maungdaw district, said the drivers were hired to drive large vehicles for the Myanmar government’s repatriation reception center in Maungdaw for Rohingya Muslims refugees under the Office of the Union Enterprise for Humanitarian Assistance, Resettlement and Development in Rakhine (UEHRD)

Myanmar’s Rakhine Conflict Takes Toll on...

The AA detained 18 firefighter recruits and the deputy station chief of the state Fire Services Department as they travelled on a bus from central Myanmar’s Mandalay region to Rakhine’s capital Sittwe after completing basic firefighting training in the town of Pyin Oo Lwin

Arakan Army Shows Off Video of...

Ethnic Rakhines comprise the majority of soldiers who serve in the Myanmar Army in Rakhine state, where the AA has been engaged in heightened armed conflict this year with government forces in a quest for greater autonomy in the region

Arakan Army Soldiers Stop Boats, Seize...

Arakan Army soldiers halted river traffic in Myanmar’s Chin state on Monday, seizing over 70 sacks of rice being taken upstream to villagers suffering from food shortages, a state official told RFA’s Myanmar Service on Tuesday. An AA spokesperson meanwhile denied the accusation, saying that the rice taken from the boats was intended for Myanmar …

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Women Are Increasingly Drawn to the...

Many ethnic Rakhines believe they have been sold short on benefits they should have received as part of the central government’s natural resources and infrastructure deals with Myanmar’s larger neighbors — chiefly pipelines that export their state’s oil and natural gas to China and a massive transportation corridor to ship cargo from India to Rakhine’s Sittwe seaport and then on to northeast India via river and highway routes

Rakhine Villagers Flee to Temples to...

When Myanmar soldiers entered villagers’ homes, they beat some, detained others, and stripped more then 130 of them of their shirts and made them stay outside in the burning sun, said Abbot Pyinnyar Wontha of Shwe Phaung Tin monastery. He said he does not know how long the monastery can host the IDPs