After Exchange of Gunfire in Northern Rakhine Village, Myanmar Army Returns to Loot Homes

28.01.2019

A Myanmar family displaced by fighting between government troops and the Arakan Army take shelter at a displacement camp in Kyauktaw township, western Myanmar's Rakhine state, Dec 23, 2018.

AFP

Myanmar soldiers and rebel Arakan Army troops exchanged fire for four hours Monday morning near Ohn Chaung village in restive Rakhine state’s Rathedaung township, with soldiers returning with border guards later in the day to search and loot homes, residents said.

Myanmar’s Military Warns Ethnic Armies Against Trying to Expand Territory During Cease-fire.

2019-01-25

 Major General Tun Tun Nyi, vice chairman of the Myanmar military’s information committee, prepares to discuss the recent Arakan Army conflict at a rare military press conference at the Defense Services Museum in Myanmar's capital Naypyidaw, Jan. 18, 2019.

Myanmar’s military on Friday warned ethnic armed groups to end hostilities in five of its command regions around the country and to stop attempts to expand their territory during the temporary unilateral cease-fire that the armed forces imposed in December, or risk damaging the nation’s teetering peace process.

Armed Group Attacks Myanmar Border Guard Post in Rakhine State, Injuring Three

An armed assault on a Myanmar border guard station leaves a gaping hole in the wall of one building and a blown-out door on another structure in Maungdaw township, western Myanmar's Rakhine state, near the border with Bangladesh, Jan. 24, 2019.

Photo courtesy of Myanmar's Ministry of Information

UPDATED at 10:48 A.M. EST on 2019-01-25

Members of an unidentified armed group on the Bangladesh side of the border separating the country from Myanmar injured three people in a shooting on Thursday at a border guard outpost in conflict-ridden Rakhine state, a spokesman for the military’s Western Command and a township official said.

Three injured in bombing of Myanmar border police outpost.

The Straits Times
Published: 25th January 2019,

YANGON (DPA) - An unidentified armed group launched four explosive devices and fired several shots at a Myanmar police outpost in northern Rakhine state on Thursday morning (Jan 24), state media announced on Friday.

Two police officers and one military engineer were injured in the attack.

Violence has beset the Myanmar-Bangladesh border area for years.

Statement of INGOs in Myanmar.

Published on 22 Jan 2019,

As International NGOs supporting communities throughout Rakhine State, we express deep concern for displaced communities and others affected by the upsurge in fighting between the Arakan Army (AA) and Myanmar Military. Fighting, attacks, and reports of abuse have invoked fear and anxiety among local communities and displaced an estimated 5,000 men, women, and children. We condemn the violence and call on all sides to show restraint and ensure the protection of civilians.

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.

Myanmar's Civil War is Moving Closer to India's Borders, Threatens to Cross Over.

Two districts of Manipur - Saiha and Lawngtlai – where thousands of Myanmar’s citizens have come taken refuge, is where a few clashes between Myanmar Army and Arakan Army have been reported.

Suhas Munshi | News18.com

January 22, 2019, 8:42 AM IST

The influx of thousands of refugees is not the only concern for India as far as the decade's old civil war in Myanmar is concerned. The war is actually coming closer home. 

Sources in the home ministry have told News18 that the civil war between Arakan Army, the Rakhine-based insurgent group, and the Myanmar Army, understood to be almost over, is still simmering intermittently and has come very close to India.

Obituary: David Abel, Economics Czar Under Myanmar's Military Regime, Dies.

By THE IRRAWADDY 

21 January 2019

                                      David Abel as seen in a screengrab from an AP video published in 2015

David Oliver Abel, a former brigadier general and the economics czar of Myanmar’s military regime in the 1990s, died of heart failure in Yangon on Sunday. He was 84.

Of Anglo-Burman, Indian and Jewish Catholic descent, he was one of only a few non-Buddhists in the military government. Born in Yangon, David Abel was selected to attend the Royal Military Academy, Sand Hurst, in the United Kingdom from 1953 to 1956 and graduated with a degree in economics.

Myanmar army told to stage push against Arakan rebels.

The Star Online
Sunday, 20 Jan 2019

NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar’s military announced that the Arakan Army, a Buddhist rebel group in Rakhine state, has been classified a terrorist organisation after mounting a flurry of recent attacks.

The state earlier was the site of a brutal counterinsurgency campaign by the military against the Muslim Rohingya minority, causing more than 700,000 to flee to neighbouring Bangladesh.

Myanmar army ordered to take offensive against Arakan Army

Maj. Gen.Nyi Nyi Tun, vice chairman of the Myanmar’s military information committee, left, Maj. Gen. Soe Naing Oo, chairman of the Myanmar’s military information committee, center, and Brig. Zaw Min Tun, secretary of the Myanmar’s military information committee, attend a press conference at the Military Museum in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Friday, Jan. 18, 2019. (Aung Shine Oo/Associated Press)
 

By Associated Press January 18 at 9:35 AM

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar — Myanmar’s military announced Friday that the Arakan Army, a Buddhist rebel group in Rakhine state, has been classified a terrorist organization after mounting a flurry of recent attacks.

ရခိုင္စစ္ေရး တပ္မေတာ္နဲ႔ AA ေျပာဆိုခ်က္ကဲြလဲြ

ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္က စစ္ေရးပဋိပကၡေတြနဲ႔ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ျမန္မာ့တပ္မေတာ္နဲ႔ ရခုိင္လူမ်ဳိးစု လက္နက္ကိုင္အဖြဲ႔ AA တို႔ရဲ႕ ေျပာဆိုခ်က္ေတြထဲမွာ ကြဲလြဲတာေတြ အေတာ္မ်ားမ်ား ရွိေနပါတယ္။ အထူးသျဖင့္ေတာ့ ဇန္န ဝါရီ လ ၁၅ ရက္ေန႔က ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္-ျမန္မာ နယ္စပ္မွာျဖစ္တဲ့ တိုက္ပြဲမွာ AA တပ္ဖြဲ႔ဝင္ေတြ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ ႏုိင္ ငံ ဘက္ျခမ္းထဲ ထြက္ေျပး သြားတယ္လုိ႔ တပ္မေတာ္ဘက္ကေျပာၿပီး AA ကေတာ့ ဒါကိုျငင္းပါတယ္။ ဒါနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး တပ္မေတာ္နဲ႔ AA ႏွစ္ ဘက္လံုးကို ဆက္သြယ္ေမးျမန္းထားတဲ့ ဗီြအိုေအ ထိုင္းအေျခစိုက္ သ တင္းေထာက္ ႏုိင္ကြန္းအိန္က သတင္းေပး ပို႔ထားပါတယ္။

သရက္ျပင္ေက်းရြာအုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးမွဴးအပါအ၀င္ ၁၅ ဦးကို တပ္မေတာ္ ဖမ္းဆီး

                                                                    အစိုးရတပ္မေတာ္သားတခ်ိဳ႕ကို ေတြ႔ရစဥ္ / Photo: RFA

ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ ဘူးသီးေတာင္ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ သရက္ျပင္ေက်းရြာအုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးမွဴး အပါအဝင္ လူ ၁၅ ဦးကို တပ္မ ေတာ္ က မေန႔က ဖမ္းဆီးေခၚေဆာင္သြားတယ္လို႔ ေဒသခံေတြက ေျပာပါတယ္။

Bangladesh: the Children of Shame ARTE Reportage

In the makeshift shelters protecting a million stateless Rohingyas from the monsoon rains, thousands of women are living in shame, haunted by the memories of sexual violence they suffered just a year ago.

ဘူးသီးေတာင္ျမိဳ႕နယ္ စည္ေတာင္ရြာ သခ်ိဳၤင္း အနီး တိုက္ပြဲျဖစ္

နိရဥၥရာ၊ ဇန္န၀ါရီ ၁၂

ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္၊ ဘူးသီးေတာင္ျမိဳ႕နယ္၊ စည္ေတာင္ရြာအနီးတြင္ ျမန္မာတပ္မေတာ္ႏွင့္ ရကၡိဳင့္တပ္မေတာ္ (AA) တို႕အၾကား ဇန္န၀ါရီ ၁၁ ရက္ေန႕ ညေန ၇ နာရီမွ ၁၀ နာရီထိ ၃ နာရီၾကာ ထပ္မံတိုက္ပြဲ ျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့ သည္ဟု သတင္းရရွိသည္။

( 21.11.2016 ) Choosing the side of oppressors (The Stateman )In

The Statemen

M Adil Khan, November 21, 2016
 Opinion

In its 14 November issue the Bangkok Post reports, “Myanmar’s Rakhine state was hit by fresh waves of violence over the weekend with more than 30 ‘insurgents’ killed during two days of fighting, the military said, as proof emerged of atrocities against villagers.”