For the Muslim Rohingya minority, who were previously denied basic rights and faced systematic repression under the Tatmadaw, the situation remains precarious. The Arakan Army has previously ...
Hundreds of Rohingya, who later ended up being part of one of the most powerful and brutal groups, the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), were conscripted by the military by force. In the past ...
Northern Arakan, consisting of contemporary Maungdaw and Buthidaung townships, has since the late eighteenth century been a region of intermittent unrest and refugee flows. Thousands of Rohingya ...
Arakan Army's control over Myanmar's Rakhine increases tension for these countries, Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh, India and China are... The ongoing conflict in Myanmar between the Junta Army and ...
The Arakan Army have captured dozens of towns and ... with Dhaka expressing concern over the pouring of Rohingya Muslim refugees in the country, while New Delhi fears the development may affect ...
Reports suggest the AA is preparing to declare either independence or autonomy, intensifying clashes with other factions, including the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army and the Rohingya Solidarity ...
They clung on through years of conflict in Myanmar but a surge of fighting has driven tens of thousands more Rohingya to flee, escaping with little more than harrowing tales of war. "I saw ...
Despite this, the influx of refugees has not ceased. According to Mohammad Zobair, a Rohingya leader at the Kutupalong camp in Ukhiya, citing a relative in Myanmar, said: "The Arakan Army has ordered ...
Rakhine, formerly known as Arakan, was the site of a brutal army counterinsurgency operation in 2017 that drove about 740,000 minority Rohingya Muslims to seek safety across the border in Bangladesh.