“In Buthidaung, when my (family) home and when my mom was asked to leave the village, there was no fight at all. There is no military left, no base, no junta there,” he said.

Myanmar’s Rohingya-majority Buthidaung town was targeted by both sides of the civil war and parts of the settlement were set ablaze by the rebel Arakan Army ...

Members of the state’s Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority, targets of deadly army-directed violence in 2017, appear to have been the main victims of fighting in the town of Buthidaung, where the ...

Reuters. Saifur Rahman and his family, who said they fled from Buthidaung, Myanmar, to Bangladesh, pose for a picture at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, June 25, 2024.

Rohingya sources report that since May 17, thousands of Rohingya refugees have sought safety in central Buthidaung, occupying any available space, including houses, government buildings, a ...

Nay San Lwin, a co-founder of the Free Rohingya Coalition group based outside of Myanmar, said in a Friday email to the AP that the Arakan Army had warned Buthidaung’s Rohingya residents to ...

Both Buthidaung and Maungdaw hospitals were shut down. On June 22, a World Food Programme (WFP) warehouse in Maungdaw storing a month’s worth of lifesaving food and supplies for 64,000 people ...

“In Buthidaung, when my (family) home and when my mom was asked to leave the village, there was no fight at all. There is no military left, no base, no junta there,” he said.

“In Buthidaung, when my (family) home and when my mom was asked to leave the village, there was no fight at all. There is no military left, no base, no junta there,” he said.

Nay San Lwin, a co-founder of the Free Rohingya Coalition group based outside of Myanmar, said in a Friday email to the AP that the Arakan Army had warned Buthidaung’s Rohingya residents to ...

Families of Rohingya people trapped in Myanmar’s west said this week they are desperately trying to contact loved ones after a weekend of widespread arson attacks displaced up to 200,000 people ...