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The Arakan Army has also stated that nearly 11 militant groups, including the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO), Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), and Arakan Rohingya Army (ARA), operate from Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, carrying out killings, rapes, kidnappings, and torture against the Buddhists and Hindu population on ...
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 ...
The group started fighting against the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army after peace activist, Mohib Ullah, was allegedly killed by the latter group on 29 September 2021. [ 2 ] On 6 February 2024 the Arakan Army and the RSO cooperated on a joint assault against ARA, who had captured a Border Guard Police camp along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border ...
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]
It also has an airport, which is now in control of the Arakan Army. The Arakan Army begun the offensive to capture the township on 24 March 2024, as part of the larger Rakhine offensive (2023-present). The offensive started in November 2023, concurrently with Operation 1027 launched by the Three Brotherhood Alliance, since the AA is a member of it.
He was one of twenty-six men to form the Arakan Army with support from the Kachin Independence Army. Twan Mrat Naing giving a speech in 2016. In June 2022, military spokespeople from the State Administration Council said that provocative rhetoric from Twan Mrat Naing as the leader of the Arakan Army was inviting conflict. [6]
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 ...
The Arakan Army's self-proclaimed objectives are as follows: To gain the right to self-determination for the ethnic groups of Rakhine State. To safeguard the national identity and cultural heritage of the Rakhine people. To promote the national dignity and interests of the Rakhine people.