Fierce fighting is reportedly going on in Rakhine state between the Myanmar army and the armed group Arakan Army. On Monday, the sound of gunshots was heard in Naikhongchhari of Bandarban, bordering Myanmar. Fragments of mortar shells from Myanmar fell near the zero line of the border. Local public representatives said that the firing in […]
Repression against the Rohingyas intensified when Ne Win’s military rule began in 1962, and then peaked in 2017. There are currently about 1.2 million Rohingya refugees in Kutupalong in Cox’s Bazar. Some of them have been there since 1992. The important point about present-day Rakhine is that Arakan was once an independent state which was […]
