Rakhine Civilians Rounded Up After Arakan Army Attacks Myanmar Junta

By The Irrawaddy 22 July 2022

Myanmar’s regime has been arresting civilians and looking villages in Maungdaw on the Bangladesh border in Rakhine State, following an Arakan Military (AA) assault this week, in line with residents.

The regime suffered heavy casualties and 14 border police had been captured within the preventing on Monday in Maungdaw.

The regime has since detained 4 residents, together with a village administrator. “Villagers are panicking because the administrator was detained. Some have fled for concern that they could be wrongly arrested. Roads are just about abandoned in northern Maungdaw,” a resident instructed The Irrawaddy.

On Thursday, residents fled as junta troops searched homes in Thinbaw Hla village. Villagers in northern Maungdaw dare not go to their farms and into forests the place they search for produce to make a dwelling, mentioned Maungdaw residents.

U Maung Ohn, a former Rakhine State parliament lawmaker from Maungdaw, mentioned: “Villagers now keep in teams the place they suppose are secure.”

On Wednesday in a pre-dawn raid, troops arrested three Kyein Chaung villagers, together with the administrator, about 10km from the place Monday’s conflict came about, mentioned their relations.

On the identical day, the Thinbaw Hla administrator U Maung Sein Tun and Tharyargon village head U Ba Thein had been summoned to satisfy junta forces.

U Maung Sein Tun returned house within the night however relations have misplaced contact with U Ba Thein.

In an announcement on Thursday, the AA accused the regime of imprisoning residents on trumped-up costs. Regime checkpoints on roads and at jetties verify folks’s telephones to justify arrests, the AA mentioned.

Troops search homes and seize gadgets to search for something associated to the AA, for anti-regime social media posts and to examine pictures and movies, mentioned the AA assertion.

The AA instructed residents to keep away from pointless journey and recurrently clear their telephones.

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