Between August 2024 and February 2025, Fortify Rights interviewed 15 residents of Rakhine State, Myanmar and newly arrived refugees from Myanmar, including five women, in Bangladesh—including ethnic ...

Rohingya people are still entering Bangladesh from Mymanmar’s conflict-hit state of Rakhine illegally by paying money to ...

The Arakan Army (AA) has gradually become the dominant military force in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. It has captured more than 80 percent of the western state, leaving only a few key urban areas ...

By 2014, however, events took a turn. He was arrested again and sent to Buthidaung prison. The reason for his second incarceration remains unclear. When the mass exodus of Rohingya refugees to ...

The junta has been conscripting and arming civilians from local communities and even from displaced persons (IDP) camps in the Arakan State townships of Sittwe, Buthidaung, Maungdaw, and Kyaukphyu.

The ban was first imposed on August 25, 2017, when Myanmar’s military launched a crackdown on Rohingya communities in Maungdaw, Buthidaung, and Rathedaung townships, triggering a massive influx of ...

“The AA men raided our village in Buthidaung, aiming to abduct some Rohingya men. My brother and I slipped out of the village,” Alom told DW. Alom said they returned to their village after the ...

The military and the mobs it supports are targeting local and global NGOs and their workers in Buthidaung town in Rakhine State.

Those still inside Myanmar are in camps in Buthidaung and Maungdaw or under military surveillance. The magnitude and duration of this crisis require a comprehensive understanding of the underlying ...

For 13-year-old Mohammed Rias, it was the day of exams, a day to put all that he had learned to the test. But instead of settling down in a classroom, he found himself fleeing his home, dodging a ...