“According to the Rakhita Roadmap, Muslim Businessmen Should Not Be Allowed to Establish Themselves in Northern Rakhine,” Reports Say. The United League of Arakan/Arakan Army (ULA/AA) is continuing to seize properties owned by Rohingya business owners under the pretext of links to the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), according to local sources. In the Kanyin […]
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Rohingya residents in northern Maungdaw are reporting growing pressure to participate in daily labor activities ordered by the Arakan Army (AA), including forest clearing and guard duties, with involvement extending to children and elderly family members. According to community members in Pyin Phyu (Region 6) and Phodhari (Region 10), several villages—such as Hla Baw Za, […]
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In Maungdaw Township, several village and ward administrators appointed by the Arakan Army (AA) are allegedly involved in bias, misconduct, and abuse of power, according to local Rohingya communities. Community members claim that many of the Muslim administrators currently appointed by the United League of Arakan/Arakan Army (ULA/AA) have long-standing ties with past regimes, including […]
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After enduring years of brutal oppression at the hands of the Myanmar military, the Rohingya Muslim population is once again under severe threat—this time from a different force: the Arakan Army (AA). Once seen by many as a revolutionary group fighting for the rights of ethnic Rakhine people, the AA is now accused of targeting […]
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Karim Ullah, a Rohingya who fled Maungdaw town in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, described the dire situation: “Since the Arakan Army took control, I’ve been unable to work. There’s no medical care, and Arakan Army members raid my home, beating me on false pretexts.” He relocated his family to Bangladesh’s Balukhali camp in Cox’s Bazar. He […]
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Rohingya refugees, who fled Myanmar to escape persecution and genocide, have called for their return to their homeland, describing their life in Bangladesh as that of “birds in a cage”. The Rohingya leaders stressed that returning home is the only solution to their suffering, but the growing influence of the Arakan Army insurgent group in […]
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The Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) released a new report on 12 June entitled ‘Starving to death: the latest phase of the Rohingya genocide’ detailing the use of deliberate starvation as a strategy by the Myanmar junta and calling for action by the British government and international community. The text of the press release for […]
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The Border Security Force of India has recently pushed at least 122 Rohingyas, including 48 registered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in India, into Bangladesh. The Office of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner said that they could detect 117 Rohingyas, including 43 registered by the UNHCR in India, who were pushed […]
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Myanmar declaring a portion of Rohingya refugees eligible for repatriation might sound like overwhelmingly good news. But in reality, they cannot return as long as the Arakan Army controls Rakhine A Facebook post from the verified page of the Chief Adviser to Bangladesh’s interim government broke the internet on Friday. After all, it offered […]
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Amid escalating violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, Rohingyas are trespassing into Bangladesh every day, crossing the border allegedly to escape the brutality of Myanmar’s rebel group, the Arakan Army (AA). Rohingya sources said back in Rakhine State, they faced killings, enforced disappearances, torture and forced recruitment into the rebel group as human shields against junta forces and […]
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