24-hour Electricity provides in Buthidaung of Maungdaw District, Rakhine State

Narinjara
11 Jun, 2019
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Thursday, November 01, 2018 | By Marn Yu Kyaw (Shwe Wa Myay)

Buthidaung, the town in the westernmost part of the country, has been provided electricity through national power grid for twenty-four hours starting on 30 October, according to the inhabitants. The 24-hour electric power-supplies start delivering to wards in the Buthidaung township since in the evening of 30 October, as said by U Moe Thyra who is the township electrical engineer.

Clashes displace people from over 20 villages in Buthidaung Township

BNI  

Friday, May 31, 2019
Development Media Group

Since clashes are occurring in Buthidaung Township, people from over 20 villages are fleeing from their homes.

In early May, military columns entered ethnic villages along the Sai Din creek in Buthidaung Township such as Pyai Chaung, Myoma Chaung, Zee Ywar and more, this action resulted in villagers fleeing from these villages.

Feelings of anxiety about future of IDPs

BNI  
Thursday, May 23, 2019

Development Media Group

Home is a familiar word to everyone. Home is very important for everyone. Even if it is a small hut, everyone loves their home, because home is where the heart is. However, more than 30,000 people from Buthidaung, Rathedaung, Ponnagyun, Kyauktaw and Mrauk-U townships cannot return home yet due to the ongoing skirmishes between the Tatmadaw and the Arakan Army (AA) and the exchange of gunfire in their villages .

Interview with Dr. Min Soe Aung, the doctor of the Zeditaung cottage hospital (Development Media Group)

BNI

Tuesday, May 21, 2019
Development Media Group

 

Mortar shells landed on the maternity ward of the 16-bed hospital at Zeditaung village in Buthidaung Township on May 2, causing some damage. Medical staff had to be evacuated to a safer place due to the battles. Currently, the doctor of the cottage hospital and some medical staff are giving health care to patients. After shells landed, the DMG conducted an interview with Dr. Min Soe Aung, the doctor of the Zeditaung cottage hospital about the situation in the hospital.

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Family Members of Three Rakhine Villagers who Died in Detention Demand Investigation.

RADIO FREE ASIA  
2019-05-10

Daw Ahla, wife of Thein Tun Sein who died in detention after being arrested by Myanmar's military.

RFA

The family members of three villagers from Myanmar’s Rakhine state who died while being detained by the military are demanding justice, saying that the military’s explanation for the villagers’ deaths were lies.

Red Cross saves elders trapped under artillery fire

BNI  
Monday, April 22, 2019

Development Media Group

Villagers from Nwayonetaung village in Buthidaung Township, who fled from their homes when the Tatmadaw launched artillery fire near their village since April 19 morning, said that they had to leave older villagers behind who couldn’t walk.

‘Helicopter attack kills five Rohingyas, wounds 13'

Dhaka Tribune
Thursday, Apr 04, 2019
Reuters, Yangon 

In this photograph taken on September 7, 2017, unidentified men carry knives and slingshots as they walk past a burning house in Gawdu Tharya village near Maungdaw in Rakhine state, in northern Myanmar AFP

The latest incident occurred in a valley in Buthidaung township, near a village that was home to Rohingya Muslim families

Villagers and a lawmaker in Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine state said on Thursday that a military helicopter attacked a group of Rohingya Muslims gathering bamboo, killing five and wounding 13, but a military spokesman declined to comment.

Tatmadaw invites evidence of terrorist attacks in Rakhine.

MYANMAR TIMES
THURSDAY, 04 APR 2019

NYAN LYNN AUNG

A file image of unexploded ordnance in northern Rakhine State. Photo - EPA

The Tatmadaw (military) set up a panel on Wednesday to investigate evidence of human rights abuses carried out by terrorists in northern Rakhine State on August 25, 2017, according to the military’s True News agency.

The agency said in a statement that the military invited submissions of evidence such as eyewitness reports, photos, documents, audio and video files related to the terrorist attacks.

Civilians hit by Rakhine fighting.

MYANMAR TIMES
FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 2019

By CHAN THAR

More than 50 civilians have been killed or are missing due to fighting between the Tatmadaw (military) and Arakan Army (AA) in Rakhine State, according to an investigation by the Arakan National Party (ANP).

Led by ANP Vice Chair Daw Aye Nu Sein, a nine-member commission set up on March 20 investigated the fighting in Buthidaung, Rathedaung, Kyauktaw, Mrauk-U and Minbya townships.

The ANP said it would submit a report of its findings next week.

Four village administrators in Buthidaung Township terminated

ELEVEN

Published 4 March 2019

The Rakhine State government has terminated four village administrators in Buthidaung Township in Rakhine State in accord with the procedures, Kyaw Min Tun, the Buthidaung Township Administrator confirmed.

These four administrators are: Kyaw Hla Khaing from Padakar village-tract, Tun Pon from Kyaungtaung village-tract, Kyaw Mya from Gyunpauk village-tract and Kyaw Thaung from Panphaechaung village-tract.

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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( 14.08.2018 ) Tallying the dead ( Dhaka Tribune )

Published at 02:58 am August 14th, 2018

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

Submitted by Eleven on Sat, 11/19/2016 - 17:05

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.