Myanmar: If the hospitals are closed, where do people go?

MSF
15 Apr 2024

Myanmar is facing an acute humanitarian crisis since fighting escalated at the end of October 2023. The intensification of conflict has led to a lack of humanitarian access, a decimation of the healthcare system, and—due to a law passed in February—increasing fear of military conscription or forced recruitment into other armed groups.

AA captures Yan Aung Pyin outpost in Maungdaw

Narinjara
Date: 24 February 2024 

The Arakan Army (AA) has captured Yan Aung Pyin outpost in Maungdaw township of Rakhine State after a 5-hour long battle, said a statement.

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.

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.

Muslim father- son duo abducted, set their car on fire by ARSA members in Maungdaw

Narinjara News 

 By: Web Master
Date: 13 August 2023 

The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), a terrorist armed group, recently abducted a Muslim man with his son and later burned down their car in northern Maungdaw township of Rakhine State.

The abducted father and son are identified as U Saw Lean Mula and U Hla Win, who hail from Sapae Gone Muslim village in western Myanmar border areas.

Maungdaw deputy law officer summoned for examining his involvement with AA

Narinjara New
By: Web Master
Date: 21 July 2023 

Maungdaw district deputy law officer U Hla Myint was recently summoned by the military council to examine if he was involved with the Arakan Army (AA) anyways.

A person close to the Maungdaw law office informed Narinjara News that Hla Myint was accordingly examined by the junta authority. He was brought to the Nakaka (5) based border police station on 19 July and later was released next day.

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]

Rohingya refugees demand citizenship and security on first return to Myanma

CNN
Story by Reuters
Published  Sun May 7, 2023 

Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi officials return after visiting Myanmar's Rakhine state as part of an effort to encourage their voluntary repatriation, in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on May 5.Stringer/Reuter
 

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh said on Saturday they would not return to Myanmar to “be confined in camps” after making their first return visit as part of efforts to encourage their voluntary repatriation.

Nearly a million Rohingya Muslims live in squalid camps in the Bangladeshi border district of Cox’s Bazar.

Most have been there since fleeing a military-led crackdown in Buddhist-majority Myanmar in 2017 and had not returned until now, although Bangladeshi officials have made several trips to Myanmar as they seek to repatriate the refugees.

Burma Army deploys 1,500 troops to northern Maungdaw amidst lull in fighting

Kaladan Press
Friday, January 15, 2021

About 1,500 Burma Army troops arrived by ship in southern Maungdaw on January 7 and were then transported by truck to northern Maungdaw, according to local villagers.

The troops were seen disembarking in the morning from two naval ships at the fishing village of Alethankyaw on the southern Maungdaw coast, where they entered the Alethankyaw Border Guard Police (BGP) camp.

Locals said the troops coming to shore were wearing civilian clothes, but were carrying military equipment and were obviously soldiers.

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