Residents of the northern Rakhine border township of Maungdaw say they are concerned that full-scale clashes may break out between the military and the Arakan Army (AA) as the junta increases its presence in the region “The military has been increasing its presence every day. On May 3, eight military vehicles carrying soldiers and weaponry …
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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.
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.