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Tag: Rakhine State

March 16, 2023

UNHCR: Rakhine Not Safe for Myanmar’s...

The United Nations refugee agency on Wednesday said conditions in Myanmar’s Rakhine state were not favorable for the safe return of 1,000 Rohingya from Bangladesh whom Myanmar wants to repatriate under a China-mediated program.

January 8, 2021

Yangon Police Arrest Nearly 100 Rohingya...

Myanmar police arrested nearly 100 undocumented Rohingya Muslims from western Myanmar’s Rakhine state for illegal travel after raiding two houses in Yangon on Wednesday, saying that they had been trafficked and were heading to Malaysia

November 19, 2020

Landmine Deaths Break Quiet But Myanmar’s...

Nine members of an extended family from a village in Maungdaw township were traveling home from a Buddhist alms-giving ceremony when their vehicle hit the mine. Kyaw Ye Aung, 25, his wife Aye Sann Nu, 20, and their son Kyaw Hsan Oo, 3 were killed, while four severely injured family members were taken to a hospital in the state capital Sittwe on Wednesday

November 7, 2020

War-torn Rakhine State Seen as Trouble...

On Friday, the last day of the two-month-long political campaign period, some 300 ballots submitted at one polling state during the advanced voting were declared null and void after election officials discovered check marks for a local party already stamped on 14 ballots

October 28, 2020

Violence and Tensions in Chin and...

More than 60,000 civilians in the Burmese State of Chin are currently facing a severe food shortage due to the ongoing fighting between the national army and the Arakan Army rebels

October 13, 2020

Rohingya Refugees, Workers Raise Funds to...

The fighting between the Myanmar military and the AA, an ethnic Rakhine armed force which is battling for greater autonomy in the western state, erupted a year after a scorched-earth military crackdown drove 740,000 Rohingya Muslims from the same region to overcrowded refugee camps in Bangladesh

September 12, 2020

COVID-19 Surge Stresses Health Care in...

Dr. Myint Htwe, minister of health and sports, said the ministry will open temporary facilities in Phaunggyi in the region’s Hlegu township to treat the growing number of COVID-9 patients, while state-owned sport stadiums in Yangon will be modified to be used as quarantine centers

May 27, 2020

Myanmar’s Rakhine State Revokes Order Evicting...

The May 14 order was revoked on May 19, frustrating members of the Rohingya community originally displaced from their homes in Sittwe’s Seyton Su Muslim

May 9, 2020

Day of Prayer on May 14...

The confusing situation, especially in the Mon and Rakhine States – where the army has rejected the truce – makes it difficult to attribute responsibility for civilian deaths to rebels or government soldiers

May 8, 2020

Myanmar Military Column, Artillery Firings Displace...

Nearly 10,000 displaced villagers in Chin’s remote Paletwa township are in urgent need of shelter before the start of the annual monsoon season later this month, with local officials pledging to build modest bamboo structures for them

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