Foreign fighters training anti-regime forces in Myanmar

NIKKEI ASIA
LORCAN LOVETT,
May 23, 2024 09:31 JST

Numbers too small so far to be game changing in overall battle situation.

A British fighter helping train resistance forces in Chin State, Myanmar. (Photo by PDF Zoland)

 

 BANGKOK -- Three years after Myanmar's military seized power in February 2021 and arrested its democratically elected leaders, foreign fighters have made their first known appearance with anti-regime forces in several parts of the country, giving a small boost to battle training and aiming to enhance the capabilities of resistance forces.

‘We want them to be able to live independently’: Why a Japanese non-profit is training Rohingya refugees

CNA
Michiyo Ishida @Michiyo
Jalelah Abu Baker @Jalelah
30 Apr 2024

FILE PHOTO: Rohingya refugees sit on wooden benches of a navy vessel on their way to the Bhasan Char island in Noakhali district, Bangladesh, December 29, 2020. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain/File Photo

TOKYO: Bhasan Char, an island about 60 km from Bangladesh's mainland, is home to 35,000 Rohingyas fleeing persecution and violence in Myanmar.

At military camps in the Myanmar jungle, doctors and students learn how to fire guns

CNN

Kocha Olarn and Paula Hancocks, 
May 5, 2021

(CNN)A dozen armed recruits crawl along a dusty pathway, the cicadas masking any sound of their approach towards their target, a small village in the jungles of Myanmar.

The ambush scenario is fabricated but the threat they are training for is real: a military junta that seized power in a coup on February 1, and embarked on a brutal crackdown on any perceived opposition to its rule.

Arakan Army in Myanmar is Recruiting and Training

VOA

By Steve Sandford

October 16, 2019 

Arakan Army recruits scale the climbing ropes at the Laiza, Kachin State base camp. 

 

On the edge of a mountainside in Northern Myanmar’s Kachin state, several hundred young army recruits kick up the dust as they jog down a trail during early morning military drills.

New recruits are joining groups such as the Arakan Army which has set up training camps in Kachin state, home to fellow Northern Alliance member, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA).

Britain training monstrous Myanmar military

BLiTZ
Vijaya Laxmi Tripura
June 29, 2019

 

Despite the fact of the Burmese military having an appalling human rights record, Britain has been giving training to this monstrous regiment at the cost of British tax-payers.

In September 2017, a group of 157 MPs called on the then Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson to halt Britain’s military training in Myanmar, which cost the UK around £305,000 in the previous year. Although in response, Mr Jhonson said, Britain was not giving any combat training to the Myanmar military. Rather it was educating them on democracy, leadership and the English language.

Turkish agencies restore confidence of Rohingya Muslims

AA 

Md. Kamruzzaman

22.04.2019 

Turkey works for physical and mental well-being of refugees living in makeshift camps in Bangladesh

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh 

Ameena Begum, 22, is stitching a dress at a sewing center located at a refugee camp in the Cox's Bazaar town of Bangladesh.

Begum, a mother of one, is among the thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled a military crackdown which started on Aug. 25, 2017 in Myanmar's Rakhine state to Bangladesh.

Turkey launches media training program for Rohingya

AA

Mehmet Alaca and Mesut Ozcan 

ANKARA, 22.04.2019

Turkish body, national broadcaster will host Rohingya Muslims in Ankara, Istanbul

The Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities (YTB) and Turkish broadcaster TRT inaugurated the “Arakan Media Training Program” on Monday.

Rohingya Muslim journalists and students residing in 12 different countries will participate in the program which will be held in Ankara and Istanbul.

In Laiza, building an ‘iron spirit’

Frontier
MYANMAR
Friday, April 19, 2019
By YE MON | FRONTIER

A visit to the Arakan Army “temporary” headquarters in the stronghold of the Kachin Independence Army reveals a large number of fresh recruits and newly minted officers ready to be dispatched to Myanmar’s latest conflict zone.

 
AS WE passed through the entrance gate into the Arakan Army compound, the two uniformed soldiers on sentry duty stood to attention, raising their rifles in acknowledgement.

I looked again. Women soldiers?