A Myanmar Rebel Group Is Accused of Persecuting Rohingya

The New York Times
By Verena Hölzl

June 3, 2024

People rebuilding homes after fighting between Myanmar’s military and the Arakan Army in Rakhine State last month.Credit...Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

 

International courts are still investigating the Myanmar military’s slaughter of the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority in 2017 that the United States has called a genocide. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fled to Bangladesh and those who stayed faced persecution from the junta. Now a new threat to the group is looming, this time at the hands of a powerful rebel force.

Myanmar rebel group, Kachin Independence Army, says it shot down military helicopter

THE ECONOMIC TIMES

Reuters
May 03, 2021

The KIA's information department head, Naw Bu, said the helicopter was shot down around 10:20 a.m. at a village near the town of Moemauk in Kachin province.

The Kachin Independence Army (KIA), one of Myanmar's most powerful rebel groups, said on Monday it had shot down a helicopter after returning fire following air strikes by the military, an official at the group said. The United Nations estimates that tens of thousands of civilians have fled their homes as a result of the fighting between the military and ethnic minority insurgents in remote northern and eastern frontier regions. The conflict intensified after Myanmar's generals seized power on Feb.1, ousting the elected government led by Aung San Suu Kyi.

A Myanmar military border outpost in territory contested by the Karen National Liberation Army, near Mae Hong Son, Thailand, March 25, 2021