The return of Rohingya militants to the state in recent years to fight the Arakan Army has led to a string of alleged abuses against civilians, and has imperilled relations with the Rakhine community.
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The return of Rohingya militants to the state in recent years to fight the Arakan Army has led to a string of alleged abuses against civilians, and has imperilled relations with the Rakhine community.
BY Frontier
Responsible business advocate Vicky Bowman talks to Frontier about the motives and risks of a new law issued by the junta for private security services.
BY Frontier
An escalation of airstrikes on two Magway townships this year has hindered work at small-scale oil wells, which support the local economy and help fund the resistance, and sparked a race to build bomb shelters.
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If the Arakan Army wishes to be seen as revolutionaries instead of terrorists, it must stop arbitrarily abducting civilians, two Chin activists write.
BY Frontier
Before stay-at-home orders were issued across Rakhine State, Frontier photographer Hkun Lat captured the response in Mrauk-U as the first confirmed cases were announced.
BY Hkun Lat
Rakhine and Rohingya worked together to prevent bloodshed at Inn Din village during communal violence in 2012, but by the time the Tatmadaw arrived on August 27, 2017 the trust between them had collapsed.
Health authorities have issued stay at home orders for all of Rakhine State as they struggle to control a COVID-19 outbreak that has grown from 80 to 179 confirmed cases in barely 24 hours.
BY Frontier
Almost a million Rohingya refugees stuck in Bangladesh marked three years since escaping from Myanmar on Tuesday, with coronavirus forcing them to hold a day-long "silent protest" inside their flimsy, leaky huts.
BY AFP
China needs to change its mistaken approach towards resolving the miserable plight of the Rohingya. Otherwise, it should get off the stage.
BY Joe Freeman
This hilly township in southern Shan State has everything from pagoda-dappled mountains and waterfalls to prehistoric artwork.
Displaced communities in remote areas of Mon and Kayin states and Tanintharyi Region are struggling to survive and receiving little support.
Hundreds of candidates from 13 parties promise a lively election race in November in Kayah State, where the Karenni State Democratic Party is hoping to end the stranglehold that national parties have enjoyed since 2010.
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