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September 5, 2024

About 8,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh in recent months, escaping escalating violence in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state, according to Bangladeshi officials. Violence has intensified as fighting between Myanmar’s ruling junta and the Arakan Army, a powerful ethnic militia drawn from the Buddhist majority, continues to escalate. “We have information that about 8,000 Rohingya have crossed into Bangladesh recently, mostly in the last two months,” said Mohammad Shamsud Douza, a senior refugee official for the Bangladeshi government. “Bangladesh is already overburdened and cannot accommodate any more Rohingya,” he told Reuters on Wednesday. The Bangladeshi government has not previously provided

August 27, 2024

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Rohingya risk death to escape escalating violence in Myanmar

COX’S BAZAR: For the past three years, Mohammad Lalu has been diligently saving, bit by bit, for one goal: to ensure he and his family of eight have $2,000 to cross the Naf River and reach a Rohingya refugee camp in neighboring Bangladesh. Lalu was not among the estimated 750,000 Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar in August 2017 to escape what the US and various rights groups have identified as genocide by the Myanmar military. He was unwilling to leave his village in Buthidaung, a small town in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, and leave his home and farmland. His area, Lalu

August 17, 2024

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Myanmar seeks cooperation to exploit tourism potential

Islamabad: Myanmar Ambassador Wunna Han said that there is a huge potential for cooperation between Pakistan and Myanmar in the tourism sector, for which future routes can be defined. “There is a lot of potential for tourism in the northern regions of Pakistan, especially in Gilgit-Baltistan, which needs to be highlighted globally,” the ambassador told APP on Saturday. He described the northern regions of Pakistan as very beautiful and rich in natural beauty, which had six major mountain peaks of the world. He said he visited Skardu and the nearby world-famous plateau Deosai Park, adding that these places are considered

August 11, 2024

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Women, children among dozens of Rohingya killed in drone attack as they flee Myanmar

A representative picture of a Rohingya family who fled from Butingtaung, Myanmar, Bangladesh, walking in a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, June 25, 2024. — Reuters Among the victims was a heavily pregnant woman and her daughter. Attack in the deadliest known attack on civilians in Rakhine in weeks. Arakan’s military denies claims it launched the offensive. BANGKOK: A drone strike against Rohingya fleeing Myanmar has killed several dozen people, including families with children, several witnesses said, describing survivors wading through piles of corpses to find dead and wounded relatives. Four witnesses, activists and a diplomat described drone attacks

August 10, 2024

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Dozens of Rohingya, including children, have been killed fleeing Myanmar.

BANGKOK: A drone strike on Rohingya fleeing Myanmar has killed dozens of people, including families with children, several witnesses said, describing survivors wading through piles of bodies to find dead and wounded relatives. Four witnesses, activists and a diplomat described drone attacks on Monday that hit families waiting to cross the border into neighboring Bangladesh. A heavily pregnant woman and her 2-year-old daughter were among the victims of the attack, the deadliest attack on civilians in Rakhine state during recent weeks of clashes between junta troops and rebels. Three of the witnesses told Reuters on Friday that the Arakan army

June 25, 2024

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Armed Myanmar ethnic groups seize tourist seaside town

An ethnic Myanmar armed group has seized the country’s most popular coastal city, with junta troops at a nearby airport, military and local sources told AFP on Tuesday. Clashes have rocked western Rakhine state since the Arakan Army (AA) attacked the army there in November, ending a truce that had been largely observed since a 2021 military coup. For days, fighting has raged around Ngapali Beach in the state’s south, where luxury resorts dot the pristine, palm-fringed sands of the Indian Ocean. The town of Thandwe, a few kilometers from the beach and home to the local airport, had been

March 28, 2024

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India to spend $3.7bn to fence Myanmar border, source says

NEW DELHI: India plans to spend nearly $3.7 billion to fence off its porous 1,610-kilometer (1,000-mile) border with Myanmar within about a decade, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said, to prevent smuggling and other illegal activities. New Delhi said earlier this year it would fence off the border and end a visa-free travel policy with Myanmar coups for border citizens for national security reasons and to preserve the demographic makeup of its northeastern region. A cabinet committee earlier this month approved the cost for the fencing, which must be approved by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet, said

February 5, 2024

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Two dead in Bangladesh as fighting rages on Myanmar border

At least two people were killed in Bangladesh on Monday when mortar shells fired from Myanmar during clashes there fell across the border, as terrified residents reported fierce fighting and medics treated several for gunshot wounds. Parts of Myanmar near the 270km border with Bangladesh have seen frequent clashes since November, when rebel fighters of the Arakan Army ended a truce that had been largely observed since a 2021 coup. Bangladeshi villagers living near the border said they fear the fighting, with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) saying it treated 17 people injured in Sunday’s clashes “after fighting on the Bangladesh-Myanmar

January 6, 2024

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Myanmar rebels take control of a key city near the Chinese border

MYANMAR: A Myanmar rebel alliance has gained control of a key town along the country’s volatile northern border with China after weeks of fierce fighting with junta troops, the alliance and the junta said. The Three Brothers Alliance, as the group is known, said on Friday it had captured the town of Laukkai after surrendering the army’s regional headquarters there. The fall of Laukkai is the latest victory for the rebels in a sweeping offensive that began in October and has become the most significant threat to Myanmar’s military government since it seized power in a 2021 coup. “The entire

November 14, 2023

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Myanmar rebels seek to control border with India after early victories

MYANMAR: Summary Insurgents continue to attack Myanmar’s Shan, Kayah, Rakhine and Chin states 43 Myanmar military troops surrender to Indian police – official Tanks are seen on the streets of Sittwe, Rakhine – resident Anti-junta fighters in Myanmar’s Chin state were aiming to gain control of part of the porous border with India after early success in seizing two military outposts on the remote mountainous border, a senior rebel commander said. Dozens of insurgents battled Myanmar’s army from dawn to dusk on Monday to seize two camps near India’s Mizoram state as part of a widening offensive against the junta-led

Rohingya flee Bangladesh in droves amid growing violence in Myanmar

Rohingya risk death to escape escalating violence in Myanmar

Myanmar seeks cooperation to exploit tourism potential

Women, children among dozens of Rohingya killed in drone attack as they flee Myanmar

Dozens of Rohingya, including children, have been killed fleeing Myanmar.

Armed Myanmar ethnic groups seize tourist seaside town

India to spend $3.7bn to fence Myanmar border, source says

Two dead in Bangladesh as fighting rages on Myanmar border

Myanmar rebels take control of a key city near the Chinese border

Myanmar rebels seek to control border with India after early victories

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