Govt orders crackdown on Arakan Army.

The Myanmar Times.
HTOO THANT, NYAN LYNN AUNG 

21st JAN 2019

State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has ordered a crackdown on the Arakan Army (AA), said U Zaw Htay, director general and spokesperson of the President’s Office.

“Acts that affect peace and public security go against the rule of law. The government will take counter-insurgency actions in such incidents,” U Zaw Htay told the media at the Presidential Palace on Saturday.

( 04.12.2016 ) Myanmar: Abuse of human rights ( Financial Express )

Muhammad Zamir,Published : 04 Dec 2016

The Rohingyas are again under attack in Myanmar. The New York Times has correctly observed that "Myanmar has long persecuted the country's Rohingya Muslim minority, denying it basic rights to citizenship, to marry, to worship and to education." Reuters has reported from Yangon that more than 1,000 homes have been razed in Rohingya villages during a military 'counter-insurgency' lockdown (between October 22 November 10). This estimate is based on the analysis of satellite images which Human Rights Watch released on November 21. Latest figures indicate that up to 30,000 people have been displaced in Myanmar's Rakhine state - half of them over the course of the second and third weeks of November.