Escaping inferno: Rohingya flee as violence escalates in Rakhine

BIG NEWS NETWORK
Khalid Umar Malik
16th June 2024, 

RAKHINE, Myanmar - Fighting between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army (AA) has risen in the western province of Rakhine in recent days, putting thousands of predominantly Muslim Rohingya residents at risk.

According to discussions with Rohingya activists who spoke with witnesses in Buthidaung, there have been large fires throughout the town in recent days.

Myanmar Armed Group Calls for Evacuation as It Approaches Border Town

THE I DIPLOMAT
Sebastian Strangio
June 17, 2024

The Arakan Army has called for the mostly Rohingya residents of Maungdaw to leave, a month after it was accused of mass arson attacks in a neighboring township. 

A powerful ethnic armed group in Myanmar’s west says that it is on the verge of capturing Maungdaw, a mainly Rohingya town close to the country’s border with Bangladesh, and has called on its residents to evacuate as a matter of urgency.

They left a trail of ash: decoding the Arakan Army’s arson attacks in the Rohingya heartland

THE STRATEGIST
13 Jun 2024
Nathan Ruser

The village of Maw Ni Bill (Oe Thei) being burnt by arson attack on May 18th.

 

In the late evening of Friday 17 May 2024, Rohingya neighbourhoods in the town of Buthidaung in Myanmar’s Rakhine State were disturbed by an ominously familiar sight. Armed gunmen had come to their doors and ordered them to leave before the gunmen set their houses alight. If they refused, they were told, they would be burnt with their house.

Rohingya Muslims Flee Violence in Myanmar as ‘Hate-Driven Unnatural Disaster Unfolds’ – Sparking Pleas for UK and US to Act

BYLINE TIMES
Steve Shaw
14 June 2024

The attack on Buthidaung – where thousands of Rohingya Muslims had sought refuge – has been called a “turning point” in what has been dubbed a “slow-burning genocide”

Rohingya women sit inside a shelter in Lhokseumawe, Aceh province, Indonesia, in December 2023. Photo: Associated Press / Alamy

 

It was late evening when the first bursts of gunfire echoed through the town of Buthidaung in western Myanmar. Soon after, dark plumes of smoke rose as home after home was set ablaze.

Rohingya need emergency humanitarian corridor between Bangladesh and Rakhine State

mizzima
May 31,2024 

Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) has made a statement calling for an emergency humanitarian aid corridor from Bangladesh into areas of northern Rakhine State under the control of the Arakan Army.

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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‘The entire town is burning.’ Fires rage as Rohingya caught up on the front lines of Myanmar’s civil war

CNN
Helen Regan and Avery Schmitz,
Thu May 23, 202

Satellite imagery provided by Planet Labs, PBC, taken on May 20, shows thermal scarring across Buthidaung, Myanmar.

CNN-Families of Rohingya people trapped in Myanmar’s west are desperately trying to contact loved ones after a weekend of widespread arson attacks displaced up to 200,000 people and caused extensive destruction of homes.

‘The entire town is burning.’ Fires rage as Rohingya caught up on the front lines of Myanmar’s civil war

CNN
By Helen Regan and Avery Schmitz,
Thu May 23, 2024 

Satellite imagery provided by Planet Labs, PBC, taken on May 20, shows thermal scarring across Buthidaung, Myanmar.Planet Labs, PBC

 CNN — Families of Rohingya people trapped in Myanmar’s west are desperately trying to contact loved ones after a weekend of widespread arson attacks displaced up to 200,000 people and caused extensive destruction of homes.

Rohingya people in Myanmar’s Rakhine face renewed violence, alarms human rights groups

maktoob media
Maktoob Staff
May 20,2024 

Rohingya people remaining in Buthidaung township, northern Rakhine state, have reported being targeted with coordinated killings, large-scale arson attacks and shelling, beginning on Friday 17 May, Special Advisory Council for Myanmar, an independent human rights group said.

Arakan Army Takes Key Town in Western Myanmar, While Denying Rohingya Attacks

THE I DIPLOMAT
By Sebastian Strangio
May 20, 2024

The Arakan Army (AA) claims that it has seized control of a strategic town in western Myanmar after weeks of fighting, amid reports of arson attacks and mass displacement of Rohingya communities in the area.

150,000 Displaced Following Seizure Of Myanmar's Buthidaung Town By Rebels: Rights Group

EN. HABERLER
By Aamir Latif
19.05.2024

Rebel ethnic Arakan Army has reportedly taken over control of Buthidaung town in Rakhine state.

ANKARA (AA)- The reported seizure of Buthiduang town of Myanmar's Rakhine state by the rebel ethnic Arakan Army (AA) has triggered a fresh exodus, displacing 150,000 Rohingya Muslims, a Rohingya rights group said on Sunday.

On Saturday, the rebel group claimed that took complete control of Buthidaung township, home to the ethnic Rohingya population, near the Bangladesh border after the regime's Strategic Military Command in the northern Rakhine State town fell.

About 30 Rohingya killed in clashes between Myanmar junta, insurgents

RFA
By RFA Burmese
2024.05.18 

Thousands are fleeing a township after the Arakan Army ordered them to leav

The entrance to Buthidaung town in Rakhine state as seen in an undated file photo. Photo: RFA

About 30 members of Myanmar’s Rohingya minority have been killed in clashes between junta forces and ethnic minority Buddhist insurgents, residents of Rakhine State said on Saturday, raising new fears that the persecuted Muslim community is being caught in the middle of increasingly bitter fighting.

Thousands of Rohingyas flee to rebel territory amid clashes in Rakhine

RFA
By RFA Burmese
2024.05.13

Activists have welcomed the Arakan Army’s assistance to Rohingyas.

Rohingya people from Buthidaung township flee to Arakan Army (AA) controlled areas from armed clashes May 8, 2024. United League of Arakan 

Around 7,000 Rohingyas in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state are sheltering in rebel territory amid escalating tensions between the military and the Arakan Army, according to residents and the AA.

Fighting in Rakhine state townships displaces 40,000 Rohingyas

NewsGram
NewsGram Desk
13 May 2024, 

At least 40,000 ethnic Rohingyas have been forced to flee intense clashes between junta troops and the rebel Arakan Army in two townships in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state since the start of the week, and are now facing a humanitarian crisis, the displaced told RFA Burmese on Thursday.

Fighting in Rakhine state:- At least 40,000 ethnic Rohingyas have been forced to flee intense clashes between junta troops and the rebel Arakan Army. [RFA]

 

Fighting in Rakhine state:- At least 40,000 ethnic Rohingyas have been forced to flee intense clashes between junta troops and the rebel Arakan Army in two townships in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state since the start of the week, and are now facing a humanitarian crisis, the displaced told RFA Burmese on Thursday.

Thousands of Rohingyas flee to rebel territory amid clashes in Rakhine

RFA
By RFA Burmese
2024.05.09 

They now face a humanitarian crisis. 

Rohingya people protest in Buthidaung township, Rakhine state, Myanmar, March 19, 2024. Han Nyein Oo

 

At least 40,000 ethnic Rohingyas have been forced to flee intense clashes between junta troops and the rebel Arakan Army in two townships in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state since the start of the week, and are now facing a humanitarian crisis, the displaced told RFA Burmese on Thursday.

Myanmar Junta Troops Blow Up Rakhine Bridge After Losing Five Battalion Bases

The Irrawaddy
May 7, 2024

The bridge at the entrance to Buthidaung town after being blown up by junta troops in Rakhine State on Monday. / Arakan Princess Media

 

Myanmar junta troops blew up a major road bridge at the entrance to Buthidaung town in Rakhine State on Monday after the ethnic Arakan Army (AA) seized five battalion headquarters including Military Operations Command (MOC) 15 in Buthidaung Township.

Battle intensifies between rebels and military in Myanmar’s Buthidaung town

NORTHEAST NOW
NE NOW NEWS
May 2, 2024

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Guwahati: Many people from the Hindu and Rakhine communities are trapped in Myanmar’s Buthidaung town in Rakhine state as there is a clash that is happening between the military and the rebel group, the Arakan Army.

Junta Ramps Up Deployment of Muslim Proxy Attacks on AA

BNI
Monday, April 29, 2024

Rohingya militiamen, trained, armed and deployed by the Junta, have escalated attacks on the Arakha Army (AA) in Buthidaung and Maungdaw townships of Rakhine State, AA announced against the backdrop of the Junta’s ever- more desperate fight to maintain their few remaining townships still under their control.

Thousands of Houses Destroyed by Junta in Buthidaung

BNI
Thursday, April 25, 2024 

In Buthidaung Township, Rakhine State, thousands of houses have been destroyed and set ablaze by the Junta troops along with their trained Muslim collaborators.

Myanmar’s Arakan Army Denies Killing Five Rohingya Civilians

The Irrawaddy
April 25, 2024

Maungdaw Township

The Arakan Army has denied accusations that its forces killed five Rohingya civilians in Rakhine State’s Maungdaw Township, blaming the killings on “criminal gangs”.