Myanmar: Scores Of Border Guards Flee To Bangladesh Amid Fighting With Rebels

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By Abdur Rahman
By BenarNews
February 6, 2024

Members of the Myanmar junta-affiliated Border Guard Police (BGP) are seen at a Bangladesh Border Guard encampment in Bandarban, Bangladesh, after they fled from fighting across the border in Myanmar, Feb. 5, 2024. Photo Credit: Minhaz Uddin/BenarNews

More than 100 members of the Burmese junta’s border police force, including some wounded men, crossed into southeastern Bangladesh since Sunday to flee fierce fighting with Arakan Army rebels, Bangladeshi officials said Monday.

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Brother of the military leader of the Arakan Army (Aa) among detained.  The armed group is fighting for greater autonomy in the Rakhine and Chin states.  Also known as Arakan, the territory is at the center of world attention for the Rohingya crisis.  But the clashes between Aa and government troops this year have already caused 35,000 displaced people.

Singapore (AsiaNews / Agencies) - The Singaporean authorities have arrested six citizens of Myanmar, accused of mobilizing support for armed violence against the Naypyidaw government.

The Interior Ministry of the city state said yesterday evening that the group had "organized and mobilized" members of the Burmese community in Singapore to support the Arakan Army (Aa).

The members of the armed group belong to the ethnic minority Rakhine (or arakanese) which, of Buddhist religion, constitutes about 4% of the Burmese population.