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How Myanmar’s junta is suppressing information about a hunger crisis

By Poppy McPherson, Devjyot Ghoshal, Steve Stecklow and Ruma Paul How Myanmar’s junta is suppressing information about a hunger crisis COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh, - Myanmar’s ruling junta has suppressed information about a severe food crisis gripping the country by pressuring researchers not to collect data about hunger and aid workers not to publish it, a Reuters investigation has found. “I’ve …

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2 weeks ago

Myanmar: Arakan Army seizes key Maungdaw town, takes full control of border with Bangladesh

Firstpost

The Arakan Army said Sunday it had ordered the suspension of transport across the Naf River because police and local Muslims affiliated with the army were attempting to escape by boat to Bangladesh FILE - Myanmar border guards stand to provide security near the fence at a no-man's land between Myanmar and Bangladesh, near Taungpyolatyar village, Maungdaw, northern Rakhine State, …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Rohingya forcibly conscripted by rebels in battle against Myanmar military

ABC

In the sprawling refugee camps of Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh, Abdul Kayes* sat hunched and terrified as he recounted a month spent in a nightmare he thought he would never escape. Mr Kayes was one of 10 Rohingya Muslim men from his village who were forcibly conscripted by the Arakan Army, a Buddhist armed group fighting for control in Myanmar's …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

After Bangladesh, Civil War-Torn Myanmar on Edge, India Must Act with Strategic Prudence

News 18

Myanmar is India’s gateway to Southeast Asia. Myanmar is more or less split right in the middle between a military junta and several ethnic armed organisations resisting its rule. The Arakan Army is one of the most powerful armed organisations fighting the military junta in Myanmar. Given the dynamics playing out in Myanmar, armed groups fighting the military junta are …

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3 months, 4 weeks ago

Rohingya refugees mark the anniversary of their exodus and demand a safe return to Myanmar

The Hindu

Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar who live in sprawling camps in Bangladesh on Sunday marked the seventh anniversary of their mass exodus, demanding safe return to Myanmar's Rakhine state. The refugees gathered in an open field at Kutupalong camp in Cox’s Bazar district carrying banners and festoons reading “Hope is Home” and “We Rohingya are the citizens …

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3 months, 4 weeks ago

Rohingya refugees mark the anniversary of their exodus and demand a safe return to Myanmar

Associated Press

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh — Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar who live in sprawling camps in Bangladesh on Sunday marked the seventh anniversary of their mass exodus, demanding safe return to Myanmar’s Rakhine state. The refugees gathered in an open field at Kutupalong camp in Cox’s Bazar district carrying banners and festoons reading “Hope is Home” and “We …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

UN expert warns of looming 'genocidal violence' in Myanmar

The Hindu

Myanmar's Rakhine State is facing a terrifying situation similar to the run-up to "genocidal violence" eight years ago against the persecuted Rohingya minority, a UN expert warned on July 4. "The situation in Rakhine State, where the junta is rapidly losing territory to the Arakan Army, is terrifying," Mr. Andrews said. Mr. Andrews, an independent expert appointed by the rights …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

The fate of the Rohingya may be in the Arakan Army’s hands

Al Jazeera

This means if Myanmar’s junta falls, Rohingya refugee repatriation would still be in doubt. As a major force in the Brotherhood Alliance, a coalition of rebel forces fighting Myanmar’s junta, the AA has made considerable advances in Rakhine State. Involvement in atrocities against the Rohingya would mean that the AA’s rhetoric about upholding this Muslim community’s rights does not hold …

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6 months ago

Arakan Army Takes Key Town in Western Myanmar, While Denying Rohingya Attacks

The Diplomat

The Arakan Army claimed on May 19 that it had seized control of a strategic town in western Myanmar after weeks of fighting, amid reports of arson attacks and mass displacement of Rohingya communities in the area. In the statement, Turk said that he was "deeply alarmed by reports of renewed violence and property destruction in Buthidaung township.” He added, …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Fresh attacks against Rohingya in Myanmar, UN decries beheadings, violence

ABC

In short: A powerful ethnic armed group has asked residents to leave a town ahead of their planned offensive in Myanmar. Rohingya activists fear civilians could be targeted and thousands forced to leave their homes after a rebel group announced plans to attack Maungdaw, a town home to a large Muslim minority population in Myanmar's western Rakhine state. The UN …

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7 months ago

UN human rights office decries beheadings, other violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state

Associated Press

GENEVA — The U.N. human rights office warned Friday of “frightening and disturbing reports” about the impact of new violence in Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine, pointing to new attacks on Rohingya civilians by the military and an ethnic armed group fighting it. Throssell denounced signs of new attacks on Rohingya civilians by Myanmar’s military and the Arakan Army, the …

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7 months ago

‘Nowhere to go’: Rohingya face arson attacks in Myanmar’s Rakhine State

Al Jazeera

Rohingya, targeted by the Myanmar military in 2017, are caught in the middle as the Arakan Army and military battle in the western state. Fighting between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army has escalated in the western state of Rakhine in recent days, putting thousands of mostly Muslim Rohingya who live in the area at increased risk. “What we’re …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Northeastern View | Fresh influx of refugees into southern Mizoram reveals new complications in western Myanmar

Hindustan Times

On May 7, The Mizoram Post, citing sources, reported that more than 40 Myanmar nationals had entered a village in southern Mizoram’s Lawngtlai district on 30 April from Paletwa in southern Chin State. However, the Mizoram government and civil society remain wary of the asylum situation, which has put additional stress on the state’s limited finances and public service infrastructure, …

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9 months ago

UN ‘alarmed’ by reports of civilian casualties in Myanmar air attacks

Al Jazeera

Continuing air raids in the restive country’s Rakhine state are reported to have killed dozens. Antonio Guterres called for calm late on Monday following reports that continuing air attacks on villages in the restive country’s Rakhine state have killed dozens. Clashes have rocked the western state since the Arakan Army attacked security forces in November, ending a ceasefire that had …

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9 months, 1 week ago

'Situation in Myanmar's Rakhine state has deteriorated': MEA warns Indians

Hindustan Times

Amid the deteriorating security situation in the Rakhine state of Myanmar, the Ministry of External Affairs said that it has told all the Indians to evacuate and move away from there. In February, India issued an advisory for Indian citizens, advising them not to travel to the Rakhine state of Myanmar amid a deteriorating security situation. The Ministry of External …

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9 months, 4 weeks ago

Advances by Myanmar’s anti-junta forces mount pressure on port developed by India

Hindustan Times

The fall of Paletwa and several key cities in western Myanmar to anti-junta resistance forces has increased pressure on Sittwe, a port city developed with New Delhi’s assistance that is home to an Indian consulate, people familiar with the matter said. Last week, the Arakan Army said it had captured Ponnagyun township police station, 30 km from Sittwe, and told …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

Leave Rakhine state, says India in first advisory to citizens in Myanmar

Hindustan Times

India on Tuesday issued the first advisory for its citizens in Myanmar following a sharp downturn in the security situation, asking citizens to immediately leave Rakhine state. Rakhine state is among the areas where armed ethnic groups have registered significant successes against Myanmar’s junta since three powerful organisations launched an offensive last October. “In view of the deteriorating security situation, …

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11 months, 1 week ago

Arakan Army fighters claim control of key city in northwestern Myanmar

Al Jazeera

Lying along the Kaladar River in Chin State, Paletwa is a strategically important city on a major trade route. The Arakan Army, an armed ethnic group fighting as part of an alliance against the Myanmar military, has claimed control of a key western town near the border with India and Bangladesh. “There is not a single military council camp left …

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11 months, 2 weeks ago

The Rohingya: A Forgotten and Friendless People

The Diplomat

In the middle of November, boats began washing up on the beaches of Aceh in western Indonesia. “Six years after most of them fled Myanmar’s Rakhine State,” the ICG report stated, “the almost one million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are no closer to returning home.” At the same time conditions in the refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar are deteriorating as …

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1 year ago

Photos: This is life in the world's largest refugee camp, as seen by their own

NPR

Photos: This is life in the world's largest refugee camp, as seen by their own toggle caption Muhammed Salim Khan, Shahida Win, Sahat Zia Hero, Abdullah Habib for NPR Since 2017 nearly a million Rohingya people have been displaced from their homes in Myanmar, fleeing a wave of anti-Muslim persecution and violence in the predominantly Buddhist country. Enlarge this image …

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1 year ago

‘Fighting is all around’: Myanmar faces deepening humanitarian crisis

Al Jazeera

In late October, Sai Lam had an uneasy feeling. “ I’m still safe enough that I can help people facing danger.” No refuge Even before the start of Operation 1027, Myanmar was experiencing unprecedented levels of armed conflict and a humanitarian crisis. In March this year, its human rights office found that the military’s use of four cuts was driving …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Myanmar ethnic alliance fighters attack border outposts as civilians flee

Al Jazeera

Arakan Army says it seized military posts in western Rakhine state as people in neighbouring Chin state flee to India. An ethnic armed group has carried out attacks on border guard outposts in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state, and fighting has erupted in neighbouring Chin state, sending thousands of people across the border into India. Myanmar’s generals are facing their biggest …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Coup, cyclone and a new bond between Myanmar’s Rohingya and Rakhine

Al Jazeera

The military’s attacks against people of all backgrounds have sparked a countrywide awakening to Rohingyas’ plight and an unprecedented coming together. I also learned about some of the reasons the Rakhine and the Rohingya had grown apart, including unfounded military propaganda portraying the Rohingya as “illegal immigrants” from Bangladesh who threatened to overtake the country’s majority Buddhist population and establish …

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1 year, 5 months ago

The Rohingya Crisis and the Myth of Myanmar Sovereignty

The Diplomat

The norm of sovereignty in the international system prohibits states from intervening in the internal affairs of other states. The Tatmadaw, Myanmar’s military, has used the norm of sovereignty to justify its brutal crackdown on the Rohingya minority while avoiding international pressure, stating it is an internal matter. The Call for a Sustainable Rohingya Repatriation It has been almost six …

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How Myanmar’s junta is suppressing information about a hunger crisis

Myanmar: Arakan Army seizes key Maungdaw town, takes full control of border with Bangladesh

Rohingya forcibly conscripted by rebels in battle against Myanmar military

After Bangladesh, Civil War-Torn Myanmar on Edge, India Must Act with Strategic Prudence

Rohingya refugees mark the anniversary of their exodus and demand a safe return to Myanmar

Rohingya refugees mark the anniversary of their exodus and demand a safe return to Myanmar

UN expert warns of looming 'genocidal violence' in Myanmar

The fate of the Rohingya may be in the Arakan Army’s hands

Arakan Army Takes Key Town in Western Myanmar, While Denying Rohingya Attacks

Fresh attacks against Rohingya in Myanmar, UN decries beheadings, violence

UN human rights office decries beheadings, other violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state

‘Nowhere to go’: Rohingya face arson attacks in Myanmar’s Rakhine State

Northeastern View | Fresh influx of refugees into southern Mizoram reveals new complications in western Myanmar

UN ‘alarmed’ by reports of civilian casualties in Myanmar air attacks

'Situation in Myanmar's Rakhine state has deteriorated': MEA warns Indians

Advances by Myanmar’s anti-junta forces mount pressure on port developed by India

Leave Rakhine state, says India in first advisory to citizens in Myanmar

Arakan Army fighters claim control of key city in northwestern Myanmar

The Rohingya: A Forgotten and Friendless People

Photos: This is life in the world's largest refugee camp, as seen by their own

‘Fighting is all around’: Myanmar faces deepening humanitarian crisis

Myanmar ethnic alliance fighters attack border outposts as civilians flee

Coup, cyclone and a new bond between Myanmar’s Rohingya and Rakhine

The Rohingya Crisis and the Myth of Myanmar Sovereignty