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An airstrike by the Myanmar junta killed 28 people, including nine children, at a temporary detention area in western Rakhine state, a local ethnic minority rebel group said.. The Arakan Army (AA ...
The Arakan Army captured most remaining Tatmadaw bases in Minbya by 6 February, almost taking full control of the township. On the same day, the Arakan Army seized the Taung Pyo junta outpost along the border with Bangladesh in Maungdaw Township. [28] The Arakan Army captured Kyauktaw the next day and continued fighting in Mrauk U and Ramree. [29]
A powerful ethnic minority armed group battling Myanmar's army in the country's west claimed Monday to have taken hundreds of government soldiers prisoner when it captured a major command post.
The Arakan Army (Rakhine: အာရက္ခတပ်တော်, romanized: Araka Tatdaw; [23] abbreviated AA), sometimes referred to as the Arakha Army, is an ethno-nationalist armed organisation based in Rakhine State . Founded in April 2009, the AA is the military wing of the United League of Arakan (ULA).
On 14 November, 43 Myanmar Army soldiers attempted to flee across the border into the Indian state of Mizoram. Most of them were disarmed by the Assam Rifles and sent back to Myanmar. [77] [127] According to reports from the MNDAA, they had begun to attack Myanmar Army positions in Mawhtike, capturing two posts and killing 20 regime soldiers. [128]
Members of the Arakan Army had often entered the locality of Thanchi on horses to replenish their food and materiel. On 14 July 2015, the BGB rescued two Myanmar soldiers captured by the Arakan Army. [2] On 25 August 2015, the BGB confiscated ten horses that were being used by the Arakan Army to transport supplies. Later that day the Arakan ...
It was founded at a conference between Rakhine insurgent groups in-exile in 2004, [1] and also has an armed wing in Kayin State, known as the Arakan Army. [2] Naing Soe, a senior leader of the ANC, was arrested in February 2018, following a series of bombings in Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine State. [3]
The Arakan Army and its political wing United League of Arakan (ULA) started asserting administrative control over the region since the coup, issuing stay-at-home orders on 20 July in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to announcing the setting up of a dispute resolution mechanism and asking civilians to report crimes to the ULA on ...