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Displaced Hindu families return to Maungdaw
More than 300 displaced persons returned from Sittwe yesterday to their homes in Maungdaw, with another 100 en route today.
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Over 500,000 pills seized in latest Maungdaw drug bust
More than 500,000 methamphetamine tablets were seized between Zula and Makyee Kone villages in Rakhine State on Wednesday morning, according to the Maungdaw district police force.
Explosives, drugs seized in Maungdaw
Acting on a tip-off from residents in Letphwekya Village, security forces uncovered the cache of weapons beside a riverbank.
Soldiers busted with speed pills in Maungdaw
The two soldiers were caught with 180,000 methamphetamine pills in their jeep.
Wirathu skirts public sermon ban, proclaims ‘Maungdaw has fallen’
The firebrand nationalist monk U Wirathu headlined a rally on Wednesday at which he spoke in dire terms of the “marauding” threat posed by Muslims in western Burma, labelled international aid groups operating there “terrorists,” and thwarted Buddhist authorities’ attempts to rein in his public profile.
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Maungdaw security situation no longer critical, says chief minister
“We will take responsibility for security, as well as social and economic issues,” he told ethnic Mro villagers in Kaing Gyi.
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Arakan govt says recent Maungdaw murders are acts of terrorism
Sittwe administration pledges to beef up security across the region.
Maungdaw village headman killed by masked men
When neighbours came out, the attackers reportedly shot a gun into the air five times to warn them off, then ran away.
23 killed in Maungdaw since October, says Suu Kyi’s office
It said 15 persons were kidnapped in total between 9 October 2016 and 3 April 2017, of whom five were rediscovered showing evidence of torture.
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Maungdaw policeman commits suicide after groping accusation
The 21-year-old was accused by a local woman of grabbing her hand and saying inappropriate things to her.
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Navy arrests on Naf River mark another drug bust in Maungdaw
The Burmese Navy in Arakan State’s Maungdaw Township yesterday seized more than 180,000 yaba pills on the Naf River bordering Bangladesh.
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Monk arrested in Maungdaw after monastery raid uncovers yaba stash
As part of a recently launched crackdown on illegal narcotics in Arakan State, Burmese police seized over 4.6 million yaba pills in Maungdaw Township allegedly belonging to a monk, who has been accused of stashing the drugs in his monastery.
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Yanghee Lee visit brings increased humanitarian access in northern Maungdaw
More than 65,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled conflict-torn northern Arakan State in recent months, seeking shelter across the border in Bangladesh, according to startling figures released by the United Nations this week.
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Aid to Maungdaw trickling rather than ‘flowing’, rights groups say
Aid organisations working in Maungdaw have not been granted the “flowing” access to the restive region that they were promised by the government.
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Displaced Maungdaw families shelter in monastery
Buddhist families who were displaced amid violence in northern Arakan State last month take refuge in Buthidaung.
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Maungdaw: border guards shoot dead ‘suspicious’ person
Border police in Maungdaw opened fire on a “suspicious group of people” who they say were sneaking up on their outpost.
State media reports attack, abduction in Maungdaw
State media reports that a group of attackers abducted two people and burned down their house in northern Arakan, in the latest incident of violence in the region.
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Foreign diplomats travel to Maungdaw as concerns grow
The visit is the first by senior international observers to northern Arakan State since the area came under military lockdown more than three weeks ago.
Buddhist villagers return to Maungdaw
More than 100 persons, who fled their villages last week amid violent scenes in Maungdaw, were transported back home on Thursday morning.
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Maungdaw prisoners treated lawfully, says minister
Burma’s Minister for Home Affairs Lt-Gen Kyaw Swe tells reporters that prisoners under investigation for recent attacks on border police are being treated in accordance with the law.
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UN calls for restraint, more gunfire reported in Maungdaw
UN Special Adviser calls on the civilian population of the area “to exercise maximum restraint and not be provoked into any kind of response by targeting other communities or religious groups.”
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INTERVIEW: Search on for Maungdaw border post attackers
“Five police personnel including a commanding officer and a lance-corporal at the Kyikanpyin post were found dead with slash wounds.”
Gunmen kill former village official in Maungdaw Township
The former official, a Rohingya man named Bhi Ahmad, was shot dead while attending a village meeting.
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State govt approves Arakanese settlements in Buthidaung, Maungdaw
A formal proposal by an RNP MP was passed to build new “ethnic villages” in the two townships on the basis that “there is not much native population living in these areas”.
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UN envoy remains ‘convinced’ of Maungdaw killings
In an exclusive interview with DVB, Special Rapporteur Quintana calls on the Burmese government to engage with the international community in investigating the alleged massacre in Maungdaw, including the introduction of forensics experts.
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Quintana slams Maungdaw investigation
The UN envoy concludes his six-year tenure as Special Rapporteur with a press conference at which he praised Burma’s reforms but questioned the impartiality of a domestic inquiry into the alleged massacre of Rohingya Muslims in Duchira Dan on 13-14 January.
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Maungdaw investigation to overlook allegations of Rohingya massacre
Burma’s president appoints Duchira Dan investigation commission, but only to address the disappearance of police sergeant and the fire which razed 20 Rohingya homes.
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Burmese inquiry concludes no evidence of massacre in Maungdaw
The Myanmar National Human Rights Commission has concluded an inquiry into the alleged Rohingya massacre in Maungdaw’s Duchira Dan-West village, saying it has found no solid evidence of any massacre taking place.
Maungdaw Police deny alleged involvement in arson
Police in Maungdaw reject an accusation by Rohingya MP Shwe Maung that they were complicit in an arson attack in Duchira Dan on 28 January that left at least 16 houses destroyed.
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Rohingya MP claims police involved in Maungdaw blaze
Shwe Maung, a Rohingya MP representing Buthidaung constituency, says local Maungdaw police were involved in the fire that razed at least 16 homes in Duchira Dan, but the Arakan State government and police suggest the residents set the fire themselves.
