Wait for Rohingya repatriation gets even longer
January 29, 2024
Asian news from state Rakhine
Rohingya may have entered Bangladesh in recent Myanmar clashes, refugee official says
DHAKA — Escalating violence in Myanmar's western Rakhine state in recent months may have spurred some Rohingya Muslims to cross into Bangladesh, a key refugee official said, although Dhaka insists it cannot accept more refugees from its war-torn neighbour.
Myanmar’s Rohingya ‘trapped between hammer and anvil’ as junta, rebels sow terror in Rakhine
A fierce gunfight between Myanmar’s military and the Arakan Army (AA) rebels in Rakhine state has thrust Rohingya Muslims into a fresh spiral of organised violence as alleged beheadings and arson attacks rattle the persecuted community.
A Myanmar Rebel Group Is Accused of Persecuting Rohingya
International courts are still investigating the Myanmar military’s slaughter of the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority in 2017 that the United States has called a genocide. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fled to Bangladesh and those who stayed faced persecution from the junta. Now a new threat to the group is looming, this time at the hands of a powerful rebel force.
Craven killing from above in Myanmar
A new art exhibition in Bangkok explores the horrific experience of civilians caught up in the unrelenting violence of air strikes in Myanmar.
UN human rights office decries beheadings, other violence in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights office warned Friday of “frightening and disturbing reports” about the impact of new violence in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state, pointing to new attacks on Rohingya civilians by the military and an ethnic armed group fighting it.
Myanmar's Rakhine state engulfed by conflict as rebels claim victory
BANGKOK -- Intense fighting in Myanmar's Rakhine state between the military regime and the Arakan Army (AA) ethnic armed group has dealt a further setback to the country's military rulers. It has also fueled concerns about mass displacement and the destruction of dwellings amid spiraling communal tensions between ethnic Rakhine and Rohingya.
In Myanmar war, crucial window looms for junta and rebels as coming monsoons make it ‘harder and more dangerous’
In the jungles of southeastern Myanmar’s Dawna Hills, rebels from an armed ethnic group are fighting to hold back columns of reinforcements sent by the country’s ruling junta to try to reclaim Myawaddy, a critical trading outpost on the Thai border.
Ethnic Karen guerrillas in Myanmar leave a town that army lost 2 weeks ago as rival group holds sway
BANGKOK (AP) — Guerrilla fighters from the main ethnic Karen fighting force battling Myanmar’s military government have withdrawn from the eastern border town of Myawaddy two weeks after forcing the army to give up its defense, residents and members of the group said Wednesday.