Military Major’s Wife Killed in Explosion in N. Rakhine

The Irrawaddy
By Moe Myint 26 February 2019

Maj. Kyaw Swar and his wife Nan Moh Moh Zaw seen on their wedding day in a photo uploaded to his Facebook profile on February 9, 2019. / Facebook

 YANGON—The wife of a Myanmar military major, Maj. Kyaw Swar, who had recently arrived in strife-torn northern Rakhine State’s Buthidaung Township, was killed in an explosion at their home on Tuesday morning.

Myanmar Military Major Killed in Fighting With Arakan Army in Rakhine

The Irrawaddy

By Moe Myint 25 February 2019

Maj. Aung Ko Nyein. / Masarita Nyarni / Facebook

 

YANGON — The Office of the Commander-in-Chief said a Myanmar military major was killed during fighting with the Arakan Army (AA) in northern Rakhine State’s Buthidaung Township Friday night, near where the rebel group killed 13 border police officers in early January.

Brig. Gen. Zaw Min Tun, a spokesman with the office, identified the dead officer as Maj. Aung Ko Nyein.

Hundreds More Flee Fighting in Northern Rakhine Over Weekend.

The Irrawaddy

11 February 2019, By MOE MYINT

People displaced by fighting between the Myanmar military and Arakan Army over the weekend take shelter and have a meal at the Yoe Ta Yoke monastery in Ponnagyun Township, Rakhine State, on Sunday. / Rakhine Ethnic Congress / Facebook

YANGON — Fighting between the Arakan Army (AA) and the Myanmar military’s Light Infantry Division 22 drove more than 500 residents of Saung Du Village, in northern Rakhine State’s Kyauktaw Township, out of their homes over the weekend.

Rakhine terrorised as new conflict erupts

26 January 2019

The Asean Post

 A Myanmar border guard stands near a group of Rohingya Muslims in front of their homes in a village during a government-organised visit for journalists in Buthidaung township in the restive Rakhine state on 25 January, 2019. (Richard Sargent / AFP Photo)

As bullets smashed into the walls, the residents of Alecheung village were jolted from their sleep and fled leaving everything behind – civilian victims of a crackdown by Myanmar's army on ethnic Rakhine militants in an area already concussed by violence.

UN Special Rapporteur expresses alarm at escalating conflict in Myanmar.

By agency reporter

JANUARY 22, 2019

The UN’s human rights expert on Myanmar has expressed alarm at the escalating violence in northern and central Rakhine State and Chin State, and called on all sides to exercise restraints in use of force and to ensure the protection of civilians.

Since November 2018 the Myanmar military, known as the Tatmadaw, and Arakan Army (AA), an ethnic armed organisation, have been engaged in heavy fighting, resulting in deaths and injuries to civilians. At least 5,000 people have been displaced from their homes.

Three Villagers Shot Dead in Fighting Between Gov’t, AA Troops in Rakhine

A government soldier on sentry duty at an outpost in Rakhine State’s Buthidaung Township. / Kyaw Kha / The Irrawaddy

By MOE MYINT 15 January 2019

YANGON—At least three villagers were reportedly killed in armed clashes between the Myanmar Army and the Arakan Army (AA) near Hpon Nyo Leik village in northern Rakhine’s Buthidaung Township on Sunday, Muslim and Rakhine villagers said.

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The surveyors say they have not even reached 100,000 of the over one million refugees who live in the camps Syed Zakir Hossain/Dhaka Tribune

Armed with nothing but pen and paper, a group of Rohingya youth have set out to record the persecution of their people

( 14.06.2018 ) ရေသ႔ေတာင္ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ၊ ေအာင္ဗ လေခ်ာင္းဝ ပင္လယ္ ကမ္းစပ္၌ ေတြ႔ရွိ ရေသာ ေလွစီး ဒုကၡ သည္ အခ်ိဳ႕နွင့္ ေတြ႔ ဆံုေမးျမန္း

ရေသ႔ေတာင္ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ၊ ေအာင္ဗလေခ်ာင္းဝ ပင္လယ္ကမ္းစပ္၌ ေတြ႔ရွိရေသာ ေလွစီးဒုကၡသည္ အခ်ိဳ႕နွင့္ ေတြ႔ဆံုေမးျမန္း

( 20.11.2016 ) False news suspect held in Rakhine

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The information committee for State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi's office has announced that a Buthidaung Township resident was arrested for sending allegedly "false information" about Rakhine State to a Rohingya Muslim group on Viber, an online messaging application.

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BURMA: RAPE, FORCED LABOR AND RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION IN NORTHERN ARAKAN

Asia Watch
A DIVISION OF HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
May 7, 1992 Vol. 4, Issue 13

BURMA: RAPE, FORCED LABOR AND RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION IN NORTHERN ARAKAN

INTRODUCTION 1

ARAKAN AND THE ROHINGYA MUSLIMS.................................. 2
The 1978 Exodus.................................................. ............................ 4
The 1990 Election and Its Aftermath ........................................... ....5