Myanmar: If the hospitals are closed, where do people go?

MSF
15 Apr 2024

Myanmar is facing an acute humanitarian crisis since fighting escalated at the end of October 2023. The intensification of conflict has led to a lack of humanitarian access, a decimation of the healthcare system, and—due to a law passed in February—increasing fear of military conscription or forced recruitment into other armed groups.

2 more military camps in Rathedaung found deserted

Narinjara
Date: 25 November 2023 

Ah Ngu Maw border guard station and Taung Oo military camp in western Rathedaung, 20 miles north of Rakhine State capital Sittwe have been found deserted by the soldiers in fear of Arakan Army members.

AA occupies two border guard posts in western Burma

Narinjara
13 November 2023

The Arakan Army (AA) resumes fighting against junta forces by attacking two border guard posts in Rathedaung township in Rakhine State this morning.

At 5 am on Monday, the AA members simultaneously attacked and occupied two border guard stations in Don Pike and Chang Khali villages on Ah Ngu Maw-Maungdaw road.

Demining starts along Ann-Sittwe road and at Rathedaung Twsp villages

DMG

Development Media Group

Wednesday, February 17, 2021 

The Tatmadaw began landmin

e clearance operations on February 15 along the Ann-Sittwe road and around Angumaw and Khamaung Seik villages in Rathedaung Township, Arakan State, according to the Arakan State Administration Council.

“We mainly do demining along the Pyidaungsu [Union] road. We will come and clear landmines in Sittwe and Ann townships. We will do it from morning to evening. If villages ask for help, we will come and do demining,” said Colonel Min Than, a member of the Arakan State Administration Council, the local governing body established by Myanmar’s military regime.

Thousands in western Myanmar flee as army plans operations, monitors say

WKZO

Thomson Reuters 

Saturday, June 27, 2020 

 

(Reuters) - Thousands of villagers have fled their homes in Myanmar’s Rakhine state after a local administrator warned dozens of village leaders that the army planned “clearance operations” against insurgents, a lawmaker and a humanitarian group said.

But a government spokesman said late on Saturday an evacuation order issued by border-affairs officials had been revoked. Border affairs acknowledged issuing the order through the local administrator but said it affected fewer villages.

Myanmar Military Says Police Missing After Rebel. Attack

The New York Times

By The Associated Press
May 29, 2020

 

YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar’s military said Friday that 10 members of the paramilitary Border Guard Police are missing along with three of their family members after a predawn attack allegedly by the Arakan Army, an ethnic rebel group.

A statement on the website of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief of Defense Services said about 100 members of the rebel force, which claims to represent the Buddhist ethnic Rakhine minority, attacked a police post in Rakhine state’s Rathedaung township shortly after 2 a.m. Friday.

Shelling destroys houses in Rakhine

MYANMAR TIMES

Saturday, March 07, 2020
Khin Myat Myat Wai   



Artillery fire in Rathedaung township in northern Rakhine sparked fires that destroyed 24 houses, but there were no casualties, residents said.
People in Kyauk Tan village have fled their homes, fearing more attacks, said U Thaung Shay, a villager whose house burned down.

“My house burned yesterday when an artillery shell hit it,” he said. “Now we are seeking help from other villagers to clear our destroyed homes.”

He accused the Tatmadaw (military) of firing the heavy artillery in retaliation for a landmine explosion that injured troops in nearby Tharzi village on Sunday.

Rohingya refugees: ‘We are hostages’

GULF NEWS
 ASIA
August 27, 2019
Reuters

Two years on, Rohingya still in Myanmar trapped by new war

Rohingya refugees gather to mark the second anniversary of the exodus at the Kutupalong camp in    Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh on August 25. Image Credit: REUTERS

Yangon: When Myanmar officials toured refugee camps in Bangladesh last month, inviting Rohingya Muslims who fled the country to return, they brought with them pamphlets adorned with cartoons showing hijab-wearing women passing through checkpoints and happily grasping identity cards.

They did not mention the new war being waged at home.

Myanmar Army Reportedly Set Fire to the Houses of Villagers in Rathedaung and Buthidaung

Bni

Tuesday, July 09, 2019
Narinjara

 

Tatmadaw (Myanmar Army) column reportedly set fire to the houses in AMyat Taung village of Rathidaung township and Alay Chaung Khami village of Buthidaung township in Rakhine State on Friday as they opened fire when they entered the village after the clashes, the villagers said.

A local resident from Amyat Taung village said “ The Myanmar Army marched on from mountain ranges where both sides are fighting which is about a mile from the village. The fighting took about half an hour. And they came from there and opened fire the village. The villagers fear run away. Then, they set fire the villages from every corner. We daren’t go and see and don’t know how many houses were destroyed."

OHCHR expresses deep concern over Rakhine men and boys detained by Myanmar army

Dhaka Tribune
Tribune Desk
Published at May 10th, 2019

OHCHR spokesperson Rupert Colville Reuters

'We are deeply concerned about possibly 40 to 50 ethnic Rakhine boys and men who reportedly remain detained since April 30 in a school in Kyauk Tan village, Rathedaung township in northern Rakhine State'

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has expressed deep concern over around 40 to 50 ethnic Rakhine boys and men who have reportedly been detained in a school in northern Rakhine State since April 30.

Six people killed, eight injured in Rakhine unrest.

MYANMAR TIMES

NYAN LYNN AUNG| 03 MAY 2019

Members of the Myanmar Red Cross Society carry a wounded man from a boat to Sittwe Hospital in Rakhine State on Thursday. Photo - EPA

Six people were killed and eight others injured during a disturbance at a school compound where hundreds of villagers were being detained by government forces in a village in Rathedaung township, Rakhine State, a senior spokesman of the Tatmadaw (military) said on Thursday.

Brigadier General Zaw Min Tun said the casualties happened before dawn on Thursday when some detainees crowded around the police officers guarding them, and the police fired warning shots to stop them.

Rohingya Survivors in Rathedaung Yet to Receive Aid from ICRC.

ROHINGYA TODAY

Yan Naing | Apr 07, 2019

Rathedaung — Rohingya Genocide Survivors in northern Rathedaung Township have been affected the most by the ongoing fightings between Myanmar military and Rakhine rebels (or Arakan Army) but are yet to receive humanitarian aids from ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross), survivors say.

New curfew imposed in Rakhine State.

MYANMAR TIMES 
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 03, 2019

NYAN LYNN AUNG

Rakhine ethnic people travel by motorbike in Sittwe, Rakhine State, Myanmar. Photo - EPA

A curfew was imposed from 9pm to 5am in five townships in northern Rakhine State on Tuesday following clashes between the Tatmadaw (military) and Arakan Army (AA), according to the state government.

The state issued a statement signed by Security and Border Affairs Minister Colonel Phone Tint on Monday that said the curfew had been ordered to enforce the administration, rules and regulations of the government as well as to protect the state’s businesses and economy.

“There is a public curfew in the late evening,” said a state official who asked not to be named.

Civilians hit by Rakhine fighting.

MYANMAR TIMES
FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 2019

By CHAN THAR

More than 50 civilians have been killed or are missing due to fighting between the Tatmadaw (military) and Arakan Army (AA) in Rakhine State, according to an investigation by the Arakan National Party (ANP).

Led by ANP Vice Chair Daw Aye Nu Sein, a nine-member commission set up on March 20 investigated the fighting in Buthidaung, Rathedaung, Kyauktaw, Mrauk-U and Minbya townships.

The ANP said it would submit a report of its findings next week.

Hundreds More Flee Fighting in Northern Rakhine Over Weekend.

The Irrawaddy

11 February 2019, By MOE MYINT

People displaced by fighting between the Myanmar military and Arakan Army over the weekend take shelter and have a meal at the Yoe Ta Yoke monastery in Ponnagyun Township, Rakhine State, on Sunday. / Rakhine Ethnic Congress / Facebook

YANGON — Fighting between the Arakan Army (AA) and the Myanmar military’s Light Infantry Division 22 drove more than 500 residents of Saung Du Village, in northern Rakhine State’s Kyauktaw Township, out of their homes over the weekend.

Confined and Neglected, Rohingya Survivors in Rathedaung Face Risks of Starvation

Yan Naing Jan 22, 2019 Rohingya Today

Rathedaung — The Rohingya 'Genocide' survivors in three remaining villages in Rathedaung Township are increasingly facing the risks of starvation as Myanmar authorities have confined them in their villages and international aid agencies cut off humanitarian assistances, reliable sources report.

UN Special Rapporteur expresses alarm at escalating conflict in Myanmar.

By agency reporter

JANUARY 22, 2019

The UN’s human rights expert on Myanmar has expressed alarm at the escalating violence in northern and central Rakhine State and Chin State, and called on all sides to exercise restraints in use of force and to ensure the protection of civilians.

Since November 2018 the Myanmar military, known as the Tatmadaw, and Arakan Army (AA), an ethnic armed organisation, have been engaged in heavy fighting, resulting in deaths and injuries to civilians. At least 5,000 people have been displaced from their homes.

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Myanmar govt confirms abuse of Rohingya civilians after torture video emerges

COCONUTS YANGON

Rohingya Blogger
 02.01.2016 

The Myanmar State Counsellor Office has announced that action will be taken against several police officers who were caught on video rounding up and beating Rohingya men in Koe Tan Kauk Village in northern Rakhine State.