Arakan Army recruits train in Laiza, Kachin State, in 2019. (Frontier)

Is sanctioning the Arakan Army logical?

Recent calls for the British government to sanction the Rakhine armed group are misguided and, if heeded, could damage efforts to establish a common resistance front against the regime.

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