People Displaced by Burma Army in Karen State Facing Crisis – Aid Workers Call for Food, Medicine, Clean Water to be Urgently Delivered

Karen News
07May 2021

Karen villagers bombed from their homes by airstrikes are in urgent need of food, warm clothing, medicine, sanitation and clean water. Adding to the difficulties of getting humanitarian aid to the displaced are official restrictions put in place by Thai authorities.

Karen Civil Society Organizations, delivering and providing assistance to people fleeing the Burma Army have confirmed about 7,000 Karen villagers from Papun district, northern Karen State are hiding in the Thai-Burma border area. The villages were destroyed by the Burma’s air force in retaliation for seizure of a military base on the 27th of April by the Karen National Liberation Army. It is estimated as many as 3,000 displaced Karen are reported to have fled into Thailand.

Clashes displace people from over 20 villages in Buthidaung Township

BNI  

Friday, May 31, 2019
Development Media Group

Since clashes are occurring in Buthidaung Township, people from over 20 villages are fleeing from their homes.

In early May, military columns entered ethnic villages along the Sai Din creek in Buthidaung Township such as Pyai Chaung, Myoma Chaung, Zee Ywar and more, this action resulted in villagers fleeing from these villages.

‘Rohingya presence posing serious threat to host community’

The Daily Star 

May 09, 2019

Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) jointly organise a seminar titled “Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals” at Lakeshore Hotel in Dhaka on Thursday, may 9, 2019. Photo: Collected

 

 

Leading economists and policy analysts have rejected the idea of providing Rohingya people with access to the local labour market in Cox’s Bazar and suggested quick repatriation of the Myanmar nationals to ease pressure on Bangladesh.

They said the international community should take responsibility as long as they stay here because their presence has already posed serious threats to the local environment and host communities.

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.