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”.

Myanmar Junta Using Rohingya Recruits to Sow Ethnic Hatred: Activists

The Irrawaddy
Brian Wei
April 19, 2024

                                The burned Doctors Without Borders office. 

Myanmar’s junta is accused of burning down Buthidaung town in Rakhine State using forced Rohingya recruits in an apparent attempt to boost ethnic hatred.

Rohingya ordered by Myanmar officer to ‘fight for our faith’

RFA
By Kyaw Lwin Oo, Sann Maw Aung and Khet
Mar 2024.04.09 

Conscription among the stateless Muslim minority long-targeted for their religion is violent and widespread. 

Rohingya Muslims ride in the back of a junta military vehicle, March 9, 2024.
(Image from citizen journalist video)

Just before midnight on Feb. 25, Ali opened his door to see junta soldiers pointing guns at him. Myanmar’s military had been making its way through Rakhine state, as part of a newly launched forced conscription campaign and the young Rohingya man was their latest victim.  

Rohingya allegedly forced to protest against Arakan Army; Airstrike kills at least six in Mrauk-U

DVB
By English Editor
March 22, 2024

A protest was staged against the Arakan Army (AA) in Buthidaung Township of Arakan State on March 19 (Credit: CJ)

 

Rohingya allegedly forced to protest against Arakan Army

A group of Rohingya in Buthidaung Township of northern Arakan State staged a protest against the Arakan Army (AA) on Tuesday. They reportedly arrived in the town in 10 separate vehicles carrying signs in Burmese that stated: “We don’t want war” and “No AA.”

Arakan Army gains ground in Rakhine conflict, seizes control of Paletwa and other towns

BORDER LENS
The Borderlens Desk
February 20, 2024 

Reports emerging from Myanmar on Thursday have indicated that an ethnic army in the country has launched an attack on yet another major city in the west, with the state’s capital not far behind. The Arakan Army (AA), a rebel group, has intensified its fighting against Myanmar’s army in the strategically significant city of Sittwe in Rakhine province. This area holds particular importance due to India’s construction of a port for connectivity to its northeastern states via the Bay of Bengal.

Still No Safe Future For Rohingya Refugees in 2024 Bangladesh Wants to Push Them Out- Human Rights Bodies- Nowhere Safe in Rakhine for their return

BNI
Tuesday, January 02, 2024

Muslim refugees who crossed the border illegally, arrested in Rathedaung Township in October 2023

In 2023, a total of 221 Rohingya refugees, who had crossed the border from Bangladesh into Rakhine State unlawfully, were apprehended.

They were detained in Buthidaung, Maungdaw, Rathedaung, Thandwe, and Ann Townships in Rakhine State. Among those apprehended, there were 156 men and 65 women, including at least 39 minors under the age of 18, as reported by Rakhine Daily, a regional news bulletin and the mouthpiece of the Military Council.

AA is conducting operation to clean up terrorists in Buthidaung

Narinjara
Date: 27 September 2023 

Arakan Army is hunting down terrorist organizations in Buthidaung township on Myanmar-Bangladesh border areas, said ULA/AA spokesperson U Khaing Thukha.

Speaking to Narinjara News, he added that those terrorists have been committing crimes like kidnapping, extortion, murdering in many localities and hence the AA is conducting the clean up operation.

ARSA Spreading Through Western Myanmar

The Irrawaddy
September 4, 2023

The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) has infiltrated Maungdaw Township in Rakhine State, intimidating and kidnapping residents.

Faced with a government crackdown in neighboring Bangladesh over refugee camp crime, ARSA members have been appearing in Maungdaw, said residents.

Pakistan’s Ambassador Kamruddin Ahmad meets Buthidaung and Maungdaw’s Muslims during the border crisis of April 1959 (Source: The Pakistan Observer, 11 August 1968, p. XIII)

 The Pakistan Observer၊ သြဂုတ် ၁၁ ၁၉၆၈ ခုနှစ်၊ စာမျက်နှာ ၁၃

၁၉၅၉ ခုနှစ် ဧပြီလ ရခိုင်နယ်စပ် အကျပ်အတည်းအတွင်း ပါကစ္စတန် သံအမတ်ကြီး Kamruddin Ahmad သည် ဘူးသီးတောင်နှင့် မောင်တောရှိ မွတ်ဆလင်များနှင့် တွေ့ဆုံခဲ့ပါတယ်။

Scores of Rohingya refugees drown in a boat capsizing in the Bay of Bengal

VTICAN NEWS
By Edoardo Giribaldi
14-08-2023

Rohingya people in Myanmar (Reuters)

17 people died and some 30 are still missing after their boat capsized in the Bay of Bengal. The authorities report that the exact time and the causes of the incident are still unknown.

Rakhine State Clash Reported Between AA and Rohingya Militants

THE IRRAWADDY

July 22, 2023

Arakan Army relief operations in cyclone-hit Rakhine State. / ERRCA
 

A clash has been reported between the Arakan Army (AA) and Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) in Buthidaung Township, Rakhine State, with both sides suffering casualties.

Residents said fierce fighting took place on Wednesday in the Mayu mountains near Sein Hnyin Pyar and Gu Dar Pyin villages.

“Five ARSA fighters were killed and an outpost was seized. The AA seized weapons. I heard one AA member was killed and two injured,” an AA source told The Irrawaddy.

Traditional Homeland of Rohingya in Myanmar

Nurul Islam (U.K.), Report,
Apr 7, 2019

The area between west bank of Kaladan River and east bank of Naf River, which demarcates Myanmar-Bangladesh border, in North Arakan is known as “Traditional Homeland of Rohingya”. It has been deeply implanted the minds of the Rohingya people despite changes in demography, due to pogrom in 1942 and continued systematic persecution against them particularly from 1962 military rule in Burma. Renowned historians such as, Burma Historical Commission’s compiler Prof. Dr. G.H. Luce and History Prof. Dr. Than Tun haveaffirmed this traditional homeland of Rohingya stating that in North Arakan there was“possibility of Rohingya and their kings in the Mayu valley since 800 years back”.[1]

Buthidaung township, Tha Peik Taung village is being burnt down by the terrorist military

Myanmar Pressphoto Agency
MPA
September 24, 2022

Residents have confirmed that the 22nd Division of the terrorist military started burning Tha Peik Taung village (Rakhine) near the No. 8 Border Guard Police Battalion in the southern Buthidaung Township on September 23rd at 9:00 p.m. today.

There is Ah Lal Chaung Rohingya village near No.8 Border Guard Police Battalion, and the Tha Peik Taung village is also located nearby.

Myanmar: Court Martial Latest Accountability Sham

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

  July 3, 2020

Convictions Obscure Widespread Military Impunity

Rohingya refugees who fled the Myanmar village of Gu Dar Pyin stand on a hill in Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh, January 14, 2018. © 2018 Manish Swarup/AP Photo 

(Bangkok) – Myanmar’s court-martial conviction of three military personnel for crimes against ethnic Rohingya reflects ongoing government efforts to evade meaningful accountability, Human Rights Watch said today. Myanmar authorities have repeatedly failed to adequately investigate and prosecute grave abuses against Rohingya in Rakhine State, including crimes against humanity.

Myanmar finds soldiers guilty in Rohingya atrocities court martial

Frontier

MYANMAR

By AFP

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

A Myanmar soldier guards an area at Sittwe airport in Rakhine State on September 20, 2018. (AFP)

YANGON — Three Myanmar military officers were found guilty by a court martial investigating atrocities against Rohingya Muslims in conflict-ridden Rakhine State, the army announced Tuesday.

The rare action against military members came as Myanmar faces charges of genocide at the United Nations' top court over a brutal 2017 crackdown against the Rohingya.

Two Rohingya Girls Die in Mine Blasts as UN Extends Arrangement with Myanmar

Radio Free Asia
2020-05-13

A Rohingya family stands outside their home in Maung Hnama village, Buthidaung township, western Myanmar's Rakhine state, July 13, 2017. AFP

Mine blasts in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state killed two Rohingya children and injured another child as they picked mangoes in a deserted village on Wednesday, with the government military and the rebel Arakan Army blaming each other for the deadly explosions, locals said.

The deadly blast highlighted the peril and instability in Rakhine as two U.N. agencies and Myanmar extended an agreement to work for the return of more than 740,000 Rohingya expelled in what U.N. reports called an ethnic cleaning campaign in 2017.

Blast Kills Four Rohingya Children, Injures Six Others in Myanmar’s Rakhine State

Radio Free Asia
2020-01-07

Rohingya men carry a child injured in an explosion on a hill near Htikehtoopauk village, Buthidaung township, in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state, Jan. 7, 2020.
Photo courtesy of a citizen journalist

Four Rohingya children were killed and six other people injured in an explosion Tuesday in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state, villagers said, though it is unclear whether the blast was caused by a landmine or shelling by the government military or the rebel Arakan Army, which have been engaged in hostilities since late 2018.