The Arakan Army has alleged that Burma’s military used helicopter gunships over the weekend to launch offensives in Rakhine State’s Buthidaung Township, where some of the ethnic armed group’s troops are based.
Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya
Emergency measures in Taungpyo Township follow this week’s violence between armed mobs and security forces which has taken at least two dozen lives.
Accidents Lead Story Military News
All three crew members aboard a Burmese Air Force helicopter were killed when it crashed in the Pegu Division town of Daik-U on Tuesday.
Two pilots survived the crash, which involved a recommissioned Bell-206 helicopter used as a trainer aircraft.
Aid Arakan Lead Story Natural Disasters News
Most of the casualties in Arakan were the result of boats capsizing or sinking on rivers. Some 130 rescue camps have been set up across the state.
Conflict Kokang Lead Story News
“They fired what looked like RPGs into the hangar where helicopter gunships and other aircraft were stationed, but missed their targets.”
Thai co-pilot of missing helicopter is now safe and receiving treatment, according to a spokesperson for the Htoo Foundation.
Kachin Lead Story News Society
All three crew members of a Thai helicopter that went missing while delivering supplies in the search for two missing Burmese mountaineers have been found alive.
Thai army authorities have asked their Burmese counterparts for a progress report on the search for a Thai helicopter missing on Hkakabo Razi in Kachin State since 27 September.
A helicopter that went in search of two missing Burmese mountaineers on Hkakabo Razi has crashed, according to a report by Xinhua citing sources at the Htoo Foundation, sponsors of[…]
The Chinese military has sent armed helicopters equipped with air-to-air missiles to Burma’s largest ethnic rebel group the United Wa State Army
Helicopter carrying 9 people goes down inside Burmese border whilst on a mission to retrieve victims of similar helicopter crash
Jun 6, 2008 (AFP)‚ US helicopters and small boats are still ready to help deliver cyclone aid to Burma, a US official said Thursday, after the regime rejected US navy[…]
International Relations Lead Story News
Britain’s UN envoy suggests the UN Security Council could consider helping Burma collect evidence of crimes committed during a military crackdown of the Rohingya, denounced by the world body as ethnic cleansing after most recent bout of persecution of the Muslim minority last year.
“Local villagers are simply too afraid to stay in homes close to the fighting, because they can hear and feel the constant blasts of heavy artillery fire.”
Should tourists still visit Mrauk U? After the deadly protests last month, DVB takes a look at how the community is reacting and how tourism is being affected.
Conflict Kachin Lead Story Natural resources News
The capture comes after several days of armed clashes in a strategic area that is home to several gold and amber mines under KIA control.
Burma’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi visited areas hit by conflict in the western state of Rakhine on Thursday for the first time since attacks by militants from the Rohingya Muslim minority two months ago sparked a refugee crisis.
Human Interest Lead Story News
Three Burmese men will set out to climb Hkakabo Razi in an attempt to not only reach the peak of the sub-Himalayan mountain but to accurately record its precise height.
Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya
Two senior Burmese government officials have delivered aid to a remote Rohingya Muslim village, and guaranteed residents’ safety, after they were cut off and threatened by hostile Arakanese Buddhist neighbours, one of the officials said.
Irrawaddy Division Lead Story Military News
The G-4 fighter jet was 38 miles into a 100-mile flight from Pathein to Hinthada when it lost communication with ground staff.
As attention increasingly focuses on the tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims amassing at already overcrowded refugee camps in Bangladesh, thousands have also been displaced within Arakan State and more than 300 teachers in the conflict zone are “stranded” and in need of air-lifted evacuation.
Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya
About 1,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing escalating violence in Burma had been halted at the border with Bangladesh, Bangladeshi security officials said on Saturday, as fresh fighting erupted in Burma’s northwestern Arakan State.
Kachin Lead Story Natural resources News
Church leaders in Tanai estimate that about a thousand people have sought sanctuary at churches in the town.
No one here thought that leaflets could destroy riches and their possessors’ future plans so quickly. But in Burma, leaflets are not only capable of doing that — they can lead to death.
Search teams retrieved the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from a Burmese Army plane that crashed into the Andaman Sea in early June with 122 soldiers, family members and crew on board, Burma’s military said on Sunday.
A civilian fishing boat found part of the tail section from a Burmese army plane that crashed into the Andaman Sea last week with 122 soldiers, family members and crew on board, Burma’s military said on Thursday.
Search personnel had recovered 90 bodies as of Thursday afternoon as the hunt for a downed military transport plane and the 122 passengers and crew aboard entered its second week.
Burma cremates 10 of the 31 bodies pulled from the waters off its southern coast as the hunt for a military transport plane that went missing over the Andaman Sea with 122 people aboard stretched into a third day.
As search efforts entered their third day on Friday, Burma’s military said it had recovered the bodies of 31 men, women and children from the military aircraft that crashed into the Andaman Sea earlier this week, with hopes fading for the survival of any of the 122 passengers onboard.
