Myanmar News » Rakhine News Myanmar » Rakhine » Places: Myanmar: Rakhine state in dire straits as conflict rages on
Rakhine state in western Myanmar plays a key role in determining the outcome of the civil war that has been raging in the Southeast Asian nation since its military seized power in a coup in February ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Places: Myanmar’s junta reinforcing troops in 3 Rakhine towns ahead of expected rebel attacks
Myanmar’s junta is desperately reinforcing its troops in three of the five remaining townships it still controls in the western state of Rakhine while rebel forces intensify an offensive to seize the ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Places: ‘Are we not eating tonight?’ Myanmar’s military junta accused of using hunger as a ‘weapon’ by blocking vital food aid
Khin Mar Cho worries for her 4-year-old son as she struggles to scrape together enough food to feed him in a makeshift displacement camp at a crowded monastery in western Myanmar. Soldiers had stormed ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Places: ‘Nowhere to go’: Rohingya face arson attacks in Myanmar’s Rakhine State
Fighting between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army (AA) has escalated in the western state of Rakhine in recent days, putting thousands of mostly Muslim Rohingya who live in the area at ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Places: Ethnic rebels seize dozens of military sites in Myanmar’s Rakhine and Chin states
One month into renewed hostilities between the military and ethnic rebels in western Myanmar’s Rakhine and neighboring Chin state, the Arakan Army claims to have seized dozens of junta camps, ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Places: Myanmar Military Launches Air Strikes on Kachin, Rakhine, Shan States
Myanmar’s military junta is ramping up its air attacks on resistance-held areas of the country, in a desperate attempt to respond to the significant gains that have been made by armed groups opposed ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Places: Myanmar and militants trade Rakhine atrocity accusations
Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday accused Rohingya fighters of burning down homes and using child soldiers during a recent surge in violence in troubled Rakhine state, allegations denied by the ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Places: Coup, cyclone and a new bond between Myanmar’s Rohingya and Rakhine
I was born in 1986 in a village in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State marked by green farms and cows ploughing the fields. It was before the military began imposing apartheid-like conditions on the state ...
News Myanmar » Rakhine » Places: Displacement in Myanmar's Rakhine state still rising
Four months after inter-communal violence erupted in western Myanmar's Rakhine state, the scale of internal displacement is still growing with affected villagers continuing to leave their homes in ...