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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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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, 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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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 ago

Young men trapped between war and conscription in Myanmar’s Rakhine

Al Jazeera

Rohingya and ethnic Rakhine see dreams of education and work disappear as conflict escalates in the long-troubled state. “Time that we could’ve spent working on our futures was wasted.” Zubair and Thura Maung are part of a new generation of young people across Myanmar whose lives have been turned upside down by the 2021 military coup. That changed last October, …

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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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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, 1 week ago

Northeastern View | India’s relationship with Myanmar’s Arakan Army — it’s complicated

Hindustan Times

On February 6, India’s ministry of external affairs issued an advisory for Indian nationals to not travel to western Myanmar’s Rakhine State. “Operation Leech” was likely undertaken at the behest of the Myanmar military, but for India, it severely dented India’s relationship with the Arakanese revolutionaries. In fact, according to the South Asia Terrorism Portal, which keeps track of such …

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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, 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, 7 months ago

Survivors wait ‘in hell’ after Cyclone Mocha pummels Myanmar

Al Jazeera

Residents tell Al Jazeera of widespread destruction from the cyclone’s ferocious winds and say they have yet to receive assistance. On Saturday, as “extremely severe” Cyclone Mocha gathered speed in the Indian Ocean and tracked a straight course for Myanmar’s northwestern Rakhine coast, Hla Tun made a critical decision. Many now fear a repeat of 2008, when Cyclone Nargis devastated …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Cyclone Mocha death toll rises to 60 in Myanmar

The Hindu

The death toll in cyclone-hit Myanmar rose to 60 on Tuesday, according to local leaders and junta-backed media, as villagers tried to piece together ruined homes and waited for aid and support. In Rakhine state, at least 41 people died in the villages of Bu Ma and nearby Khaung Doke Kar, inhabited by the persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority, local leaders …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Flooding, communications blackout as Cyclone Mocha hits Myanmar

Al Jazeera

The storm is one of the most powerful to ever hit the region with winds as strong as 250km/h. With winds of up to 250 kilometres per hour, Mocha struck between Myanmar’s Sittwe and Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, the home to nearly one million mostly Muslim Rohingya refugees who were forced out of Myanmar in a 2017 military crackdown that …

Bangladesh Cyclone Damage Myanmar State Camp Rohingya

1 year, 7 months ago

Sonowal inaugurates Sittwe port in Myanmar; receives first Indian cargo vessel

The Hindu

Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and Myanmar's Deputy Prime Minister Admiral Tin Aung San on Tuesday jointly inaugurated the Sittwe Port in Myanmar and received the first Indian cargo ship, according to an official statement. "The seaport with maximum capacity of 20,000 deadweight tonnage will make Sittwe the maritime hub of Myanmar, drastically reduce transportation cost of cargo from other parts …

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2 years ago

Atrocities Mount Amid the Return to War in Western Myanmar

The Diplomat

About four months after fighting resumed between Myanmar’s military junta and the Arakan Army in western Myanmar’s Rakhine State, junta forces are increasingly resorting to airstrikes and artillery barrages against civilian populations, amid reported losses on the ground. A week later, the AA launched a retaliatory attack against junta forces in northern Rakhine, killing at least four, injuring many others, …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Fighting in Maungdaw: A Strategic Turning Point in Western Myanmar?

The Diplomat

On the morning of September 16, around two months after intensive clashes resumed between the Arakan Army and the Myanmar military in northern Rakhine State, Brigadier General Dr. Nyo Twan Awng, the AA’s deputy commander in chief, shared a message to the Rakhine people through his social media accounts. Twelve days later, the AA launched a retaliatory attack against junta …

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

Rohingya forcibly conscripted by rebels in battle against Myanmar military

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

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

Young men trapped between war and conscription in Myanmar’s Rakhine

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

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

Northeastern View | India’s relationship with Myanmar’s Arakan Army — it’s complicated

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

Myanmar ethnic alliance fighters attack border outposts as civilians flee

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

Survivors wait ‘in hell’ after Cyclone Mocha pummels Myanmar

Cyclone Mocha death toll rises to 60 in Myanmar

Flooding, communications blackout as Cyclone Mocha hits Myanmar

Sonowal inaugurates Sittwe port in Myanmar; receives first Indian cargo vessel

Atrocities Mount Amid the Return to War in Western Myanmar

Fighting in Maungdaw: A Strategic Turning Point in Western Myanmar?