Showing posts with label Arkan Army. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arkan Army. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Arakan Army’s takeover of northern Rakhine: What fate awaits the Rohingyas?

THE BUSINESS STANDARD
SM Abrar Aowsaf
11 December, 2024, 


As the Arakan Army gains full control of northern Rakhine, fears of renewed violence against the Rohingya mount, complicating repatriation efforts

With the Arakan Army gaining power, the fate of the Rohingiyas remains uncertain.

With the Myanmar army having been driven out of their last outpost in Maungdaw, there is uncertainty on both sides of the 271-kilometre-long Bangladesh-Myanmar border, the Burmese side of which is now under complete control of the Arakan Army.

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Arakan Army could be key to justice for the Rohingya

ARAB NEWS
Dr. Azeem Ibrahim
December 09, 2024

By engaging with all stakeholders, the international community can help turn this opportunity into a foundation for peace (AFP)

For more than a decade, the Rohingya people of Myanmar have faced unimaginable suffering: denied citizenship, subjected to systemic violence and forced to flee their ancestral homes. Today, nearly 1 million of them live in overcrowded camps in Bangladesh, where dwindling international aid and political instability have pushed them to the brink.

Monday, May 27, 2024

Rohingya minority caught between warring factions in Myanmar's civil war

CNN
May 26'2024

The Rohingya Muslim minority is being targeted with violence as Myanmar's civil war rages on. CNN's Anna Coren speaks with Nay San Lwin, the co-founder of the Free Rohingya Coalition, about the situation. 

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Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Arakan Army Accuses Myanmar Junta of Chemical Warfare

The Arakan Army (AA) has claimed Myanmar’s junta has been using chemical weapons in Paletwa Township, Chin State, since Sunday.

The AA, a member of the Brotherhood Alliance that launched Operation 1027 in northern Shan State, has been attacking the regime’s hilltop outposts in Traunaing and Hnonebuu villages in the township that borders Rakhine State since November 14.

Its statement said “chemical warfare agents” were dropped from Y-8 and Y-12 aircraft on Sunday evening.

U Khine Thu Kha, the AA’s spokesman, told The Irrawaddy that chemical bombs were also dropped on Monday.

“The fascist military twice dropped chemical bombs while we were attacking the Traunaing hilltop outpost. The junta is launching at least 30 airstrikes a day in Paletwa,” he said.

The junta denied the accusations.

U Khine Thu Kha said the Traunaing and Hnonebuu outposts had been used to oppress Chin and Rakhine communities in Paletwa Township.

The other two Brotherhood Alliance members, the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), have reported the junta’s use of chemical weapons.

The TNLA reported that a chemical bomb was dropped on November 4 at Mong Kyat camp in Lashio Township, which had been seized from the regime.

It said TNLA soldiers suffered from dizziness, breathlessness, nausea, extreme agitation, fatigue and low oxygen levels in their blood.

On November 18, the TNLA said its troops suffered similar symptoms at the Sakhan Thit hill base in Namkham Township.

On November 23, the MNDAA stated that junta aircraft dropped four chemical bombs on a seized regime hilltop outpost in Namsalat village, Hseni Township, in northern Shan State.

MNDAA spokesman Li Jiawen warned of more chemical attacks, including on civilian targets, while the junta’s mouthpiece, Major General Zaw Min Tun, denied that chemical weapons had been used.
 
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