RADIO FREE ASIA
2019-04-10
A view of the entrance to the police battalion headquarters in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state, March 2019.
The Myanmar military unleashed helicopter and jet strikes in response to the rebel Arakan Army's (AA) on-the-ground attacks on a police residential unit and battalion headquarters believed to contain heavy arms belonging to government troops in war-ravaged Rakhine state’s Mrauk-U township, with spokesmen for the two forces releasing competing, imprecise casualty counts.