Attacks on Rohingyas raise fear of fresh influx

NEW AGE
Muktadir Rashid
Feb 13, 2024, 

A Bangkok-based rights group said on Tuesday that it had documented indiscriminate attacks on civilians, killings, destruction of civilian homes, and forced displacement during a four-day-long attack by the Myanmar junta beginning January 25 in a predominantly Rohingya-Muslim village in northern Rakhine State along the Bangladesh border.

Myanmar Junta Outposts Fall in Northern Rakhine: Arakan Army

The Irrawaddy
Hein Htoo Zan
November 13, 2023

The Chein Khar Li Border Guard Police outpost on the Angumaw-Maungdaw road. / The Irrawaddy 

 

Clashes have broken out between the Arakan Army (AA) and Myanmar’s junta in Rathedaung, Kyauktaw, Minbya and Mrauk U townships on Monday, with at least three junta positions falling across Rakhine State, according to the armed group.

Myanmar Junta Outposts Fall in Northern Rakhine: Arakan Army

The Irrawaddy
Hein Htoo Zan
November 13, 202

The Chein Khar Li Border Guard Police outpost on the Angumaw-Maungdaw road. / The Irrawaddy

 

Clashes have broken out between the Arakan Army (AA) and Myanmar’s junta in Rathedaung, Kyauktaw, Minbya and Mrauk U townships on Monday, with at least three junta positions falling across Rakhine State, according to the armed group.

The AA attacked junta Border Guard Police outposts in Done Pike and Chein Khar Li villages, Rathedaung Township, in northern Rakhine State, before dawn.

Situation Update: Arakan Army Attacks SAC in Northern Rakhine and Paletwa

ISIS a Threat to N. Rakhine: Gov’t Spokesperson

The Irrawaddy 
By Htet Naing Zaw
29 April 2019

 A Tatmadaw soldier on security duty in Rakhine State / Kyaw Kha / The Irrawaddy

NAYPYITAW—The director general of Myanmar’s President’s Office U Zaw Htay has said that Myanmar has been a target of the Islamist militant group ISIS since 2012 when the group shifted its focus to northern Rakhine State after losing its footholds in Syria and Iraq.

“ISIS mainly nurtured home-grown cells. The terrorists who entered from outside linked and worked with radical elements inside the country, as in the case of Sri Lanka,” U Zaw Htay told reporters.

Myanmar, Bangladesh to discuss repatriation May 3.

MYANMAR TIMES

NYAN LYNN AUNG | 24 APR 2019

Refugees from northern Rakhine State are seen at Kutubpalang camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, last August. Photo - EPA

Myanmar and Bangladesh officials will meet on May 3 in Nay Pyi Taw to discuss the much delayed repatriation of the more than 700,000 northern Rakhine State refugees living in cramped camps in Bangladesh. 

The fourth joint working group meeting of the countries will be the first between the two sides since the failed attempt to repatriate the first batch of refugees last December.

Shelling Injures Two Civilians in N. Rakhine, Villagers Say.

The Irrawaddy
19 April 2019
By MOE MYINT

Maung Tun Aye is treated for shrapnel wounds at a hospital in Mrauk-U Township, Rakhine State, on Thursday. / Mrauk-U Karuna Wave / Facebook

YANGON — Two civilians in northern Rakhine State’s Mrauk-U Township were wounded by shrapnel from artillery fire after the Myanmar Army began shooting and shelling in the area on Wednesday night and into Thursday, according to locals.

Mrauk-U resident Ko Than Tun said about 460 people fled Baungdwat Village, about 3 km south of the township’s urban center, on Thursday and have taken shelter at the Myothit monastery in central Mrauk-U.

Nine UN countries call for meeting on Rohingya crisis.

THE Star ONLINE
Friday, 22 Feb 2019

NEW YORK: The United States, France, Britain and six other countries on the United Nations Security Council have called for a meeting on Myanmar that is expected to face opposition from China, diplomats said.

Rohingya in Rakhine state suffer government retaliation

AL Jazeera
by Katie Arnold
4 Dec 2016

 Military uses indiscriminate violence in pursuit of Al Yaqeen fighters who demand equal rights for Rohingya Muslims.

 

Supporters rally against attacks on the Rohingya in Myanmar, in Dhaka, Bangladesh [Abir Abdullah/EPA]

When Faizul* fled the smouldering remains of his village in Myanmar's Northern Rakhine state, he barely noticed the shards of wood that punctured every extremity of his body. He just wanted to escape the bullets raining down from a helicopter above. But by the time he reached Bangladesh, a shrapnel wound on his right leg had grown to the size of a golf ball, and its yellow flesh was festering with signs of an infection.

( 21.11.2016 ) 30,000 displaced by violence in northern Rakhine State: UN

MYANMARTIMES
By AFP | Monday, 21 November 2016

Up to 30,000 people have been displaced by renewed violence in northern Rakhine State, the UN said on November 18. Half of the displacement occurred over the course of the previous week, when dozens of people died in clashes with the military.