Myanmar police arrest trafficking gang linked to deaths of 13 Rohingya

Bangkok Post

published : 21 Dec 2022

A stranded boat which was used by Rohingya Muslims is seen at the Thande village beach outside Yangon, Myanmar, on Nov 16, 2018. (Photo: Reuters)

YANGON: Myanmar police have arrested 12 suspected members of a human trafficking gang linked to the deaths of 13 Rohingya, the military said.

 

Police raided a compound in Hlegu town near the commercial hub Yangon on Dec 9, seizing five vehicles and an oil tanker used in the trafficking, the junta said on Tuesday.

Ten Myanmar policemen killed in attack by ethnic armies opposed to junta-report

THE ECONOMIC TIMES

ReutersLast Updated: Apr 10, 2021,

More than 600 people have been killed by the military in the crackdown on protests against the Feb. 1 coup, according to a monitoring group.

An alliance of ethnic armies in Myanmar that has opposed the junta's crackdown on anti-coup protests attacked a police station in the east on Saturday and at least 10 policemen were killed, domestic media said.

The police station at Naungmon in Shan state was attacked early in the morning by fighters from an alliance that includes the Arakan Army, the Ta'ang National Liberation Army and the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army, media reported.

Shan News said at least 10 policemen were killed, while the Shwe Phee Myay news outlet put the death toll at 14.

The secret network helping hundreds of Myanmar police flee to India

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Sheboygan, WI, USA / 1330 & 101.5 WHBL
By Devjyot Ghoshal
Syndicated Content
Mar 25, 2021

AIZAWL, India (Reuters) - Strung across remote mountain settlements, a secret network of activists and volunteers is helping spirit hundreds of defecting Myanmar policemen away from the military’s brutal crackdown on dissent and into relative safety in a small northeastern Indian state.

Their escape - by car, motorcycle and on foot through densely forested terrain - is often guided by volunteer-led groups on both sides of the border, according to accounts from at least 10 people who are involved in the loose-knit network or have used it to cross the border. Once in India, local activists and residents provide food and shelter in safe houses, the people said.

Exclusive: 'Shoot till they are dead' - Some Myanmar police say fled to India after refusing orders

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Devjyot Ghoshal
APAC
MARCH 9, 2021

CHAMPHAI, India (Reuters) - When Tha Peng was ordered to shoot at protesters with his submachine gun to disperse them in the Myanmar town of Khampat on Feb. 27, the police lance corporal said he refused.

“The next day, an officer called to ask me if I will shoot,” he said. The 27-year-old refused again, and then resigned from the force.

On March 1, he said he left his home and family behind in Khampat and travelled for three days, mostly at night to avoid detection, before crossing into India’s northeastern Mizoram state.

“I had no choice,” Tha Peng told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday, speaking via a translator. He gave only part of his name to protect his identity. Reuters saw his police and national ID cards which confirmed the name.

Police Officer Injured in ARSA Ambush in N. Rakhine

The Irrawaddy
By The Irrawaddy
23 April 2019

A police vehicle damaged in an ARSA attack in Maungdaw, northern Rakhine State on Monday / Supplied

YANGON—In the latest in a string of attacks this year, a Myanmar police officer was injured when the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) attacked a police van transporting officers at the junction of Zeepin Chaung and Leikra villages in Maungdaw Township, northern Rakhine State, on Monday morning.

Myanmar rebels storm police base in Rakhine state amid fresh clashes in temple town.

REUTERS
APRIL 10th, 2019

YANGON (Reuters) - Arakan Army rebels overran a police base in Rakhine state, killing two officers and one of their wives, the Myanmar government said on Wednesday, as fresh fighting broke out in a historic Buddhist temple town popular with tourists.

The Information Ministry said around 200 insurgents stormed a police headquarters in Mrauk U before being repelled, but that they abducted four women and three children as they left.

Rakhine rebels kill 9 in contemporary strike on Myanmar police

Infosurhoy

by Denis Bedoya | 

Mar 31, 2019 | News


YANGON (Reuters) – Arakan Army insurgents killed nine Myanmar police in the latest attack in the country’s western Rakhine State, the government said on Sunday, as clashes threaten to engulf a large part of the troubled region.

Villagers heard gunfire as fighters from the armed group, which recruits from the mainly Buddhist Rakhine ethnic group, raided a police post in the village of Yoe Ta Yoke late on Saturday night.

A police officer killed in Mrauk-U

MYANMARTIMES
Nyan Lynn Aung  25 Mar 2019

A police officer was shot dead by two unknown assailants while he was having dinner at a restaurant near a police station in Mrauk-U, Rakhine State, on Saturday night, police said.

Police Inspector Kyaw Kyaw Hla of Tain Nyo police station in Mrauk-U died of gunshot wounds to the head and chest while he was being operated on at hospital, the official said.

Nine police killed in attack in Myanmar’s Rakhine - police

EYEWITNESS NEWS
AFP, 10 Mar 2019

FILE: Policemen in riot-hit Meiktila, central Myanmar. Picture: AFP

A bloody military crackdown in 2017 forced some 740,000 Rohingya Muslims over the border into Bangladesh in violence UN investigators have said warrants the prosecution of top generals for genocide and crimes against humanity.
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Myanmar police seize massive haul of meth pills

Mail Online

  By Afp

Published: 06:25, 4 March 2019

Myanmar is believed to be the world's biggest producer of crystal meth, as evidenced by this $45 million haul seized in Bangkok in 2018

Myanmar authorities seized more than 10 million meth pills worth $13.3 million over the weekend, police said Monday, another massive haul in a country widely believed to be the world's largest methamphetamine producer.

High-grade crystal meth -- or 'ice' -- is smuggled out of Myanmar via sophisticated networks to lucrative developed markets as far away as Japan, South Korea and Australia.

Police Convoy Attacked in Northern Rakhine; Locals Say Officers Killed

The Irrawaddy  
By Min Aung Khine, 28 February 2019

A car that was attacked on Wednesday night in Ponnagyun Township, Rakhine State, sits on the side of the road at the scene of the attack on Thursday. / Supplied

SITTWE, Rakhine State — At least two police officers were among those killed in an attack on a police convoy on the main road through northern Rakhine State’s Ponnagyun Township on Wednesday night, according to police, local residents and photos on Facebook.

Police Arrest Dozens on Suspicion of Ties with AA in Northern Rakhine

The Irrawaddy
By Moe Myint 4 February 2019

Residents of Shin Let Wa village in Chin State’s Paletwa Township take shelter after fleeing armed clashes between AA and government troops in 2017. In the early hours of Feb. 4, 2019, 24 people from the same village were arrested by authorities at a home in Rakhine State’s Kyauktaw Township, along with their hosts.

YANGON—Police arrested 26 people in northern Rakhine State’s Kyauktaw Township early Monday morning on suspicion of having connections with the Arakan Army (AA), state legislator U Maung Than Sein said.

Jailed Reuters reporters to launch last appeal to Myanmar court.

By AFP
1 February 2019

                    Myanmar police officer Moe Yan Naing was sentenced to a year in jail after giving testimony in support of two journalists

Lawyers for two Reuters journalists jailed for seven years in Myanmar on charges linked to their reporting of the Rohingya crisis are set Friday to lodge an appeal with the Supreme Court -- a last chance of a reprieve through the legal system.