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11/28/2025

Kyauktaw Township Bombed by Terrorist Military Council; Seven Civilians, Including Five-Year-Old Child, Killed and Ten Injur

AK / November 28, 2025

09/14/2025

The silence of learning replaced by the cries of mourning after the bombing of Tharyat Tapin School

AK News / September 14, 2025

On September 12, at around 1:00 a.m., the Terrorist Military Commission carried out an airstrike on a private school dormitory located in Tharyat Tapin village, Kyauktaw Township, Arakan State, using two 500-pound bombs.
As a result of the attack, 16 students from Pannya Pankhin School who were boarding there, along with 3 students from A Myin Thit School, were killed instantly. Another 22 students were severely injured.
Among those critically wounded, 17-year-old Grade 11 student, Maung Aung Nyein Phyo, passed away around 12:30 p.m. on September 13 while receiving medical treatment. With his death, the total number of student fatalities has now reached 20, while 21 others are still undergoing emergency medical care.
The bombing occurred at a time when the students were resting for the night. Before going to bed, they had been anxiously preparing for exams scheduled the next morning. The students who lost their lives were not natives of Tharyar Tapin village but had come from other villages to pursue their education as boarders. Among the deceased were students aged between 15 and 21, both male and female. The Arakan Army has released detailed information about the victims. The people of Rakhine as a whole are grieving deeply over this brutal act committed against innocent students.
In addition to carrying out this violent airstrike on innocent children, the terrorist military is also spreading disinformation through its propaganda channels, falsely claiming that those killed were not regular school students but trainees from the Arakan Army.
Following this inhumane attack, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) issued a statement on September 13 expressing grave concern over the large number of student deaths in Arakan State.
Currently, the Terrorist Military Commission has been increasingly targeting non-combatant civilians with indiscriminate airstrikes. As a result, the United League of Arakan / Arakan Army (ULA/AA) urged the public on September 13 to remain more vigilant about air threats than ever before. The ULA/AA also warned that they would take strong retaliatory action against perpetrators, commanders, and all those involved in this bombing incident.

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09/14/2025

Myanmar Junta's Bombing: At Least 20 Students Killed and 20 Others Injured in Tha Yet Ta Pin Village, Kyauktaw, Arakan
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On September 12, 2025, at approximately 1:00 AM, the Military Commission attacked Pannya Pan Khaing Private High School in Tha Yet Ta Pin village, Kyauktaw Township, Arakan State, using a jet fighter to drop two 500-pound bombs.

The bombs struck the school premises, causing a devastating explosion. According to initial reports, the blast killed at least 20 students and injured approximately 20 others. The private high school and at least four nearby residential buildings were damaged or destroyed by the bombing.

Additionally, several students and local residents sustained severe injuries, with some in critical condition. The village, located along the Yangon-Sittwe highway, is home to thousands of households.

On September 10, 2025, the Military Commission also conducted airstrikes on mountainous areas near Zee Chaung Dam in Kyauktaw Township.

Across the country, the Military Commission’s forces, facing defeats in various regions, have been carrying out daily airstrikes targeting civilian areas. These attacks have resulted in continuous casualties and injuries among local residents.

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09/10/2025

Arakan Authorities Detain 40 Illegal Bangladeshi Fishermen and Seize Five Boats in a Single Day

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September 10, 2025
llegal fishing by individuals from Bangladesh persists within Arakan’s maritime territory. According to the latest reports, on September 10, 2025, a total of 40 fishermen were apprehended from five fishing boats in a single day. The incidents are detailed as follows:

At approximately 08:00, a fishing boat carrying seven fishermen was seized.

At around 10:30, another fishing boat with six fishermen was apprehended.

At 13:15, a third wooden boat with ten fishermen was captured approximately 6.75 kilometers off the western coast of Koetan-Kauk village in Rathedaung Township.

At 13:18, a fourth wooden boat with ten fishermen was seized.

At 13:30, a fifth wooden boat with seven fishermen was apprehended approximately 6.72 kilometers off the western coast of the abandoned Chainkharli village.

Despite efforts by the Bangladesh Border Guard to prevent illegal fishing in Arakan’s maritime territory, fishermen continue to engage in unauthorized fishing activities, underscoring the need for more effective measures to address the issue.

The 40 fishermen detained today will be handed over to the relevant authorities by the Arakan Coast Guard for legal action in accordance with Arakan’s laws.

Ref-Global Arakan Network

08/04/2025

AA refutes Bangladesh army's allegation of KNF-AA links

Khaing Lu Hla (Roma Mray) | Narinjara News,
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August 3, 2025

The Arakan Army (AA) has refuted the Bangladesh army's assertions that there is a connection between the Arakan Army (AA) and the Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF), which is fighting for minority rights in Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts.

When Narinjara reached out to U Khaing Thukha, the spokesperson for the Arakan Army (AA), about the allegations made by Brigadier General Md Nazim-Ud-Daula, the Director of Military Operations for the Bangladesh Army, at a press conference held at the army headquarters in Dhaka on Thursday, U Khaing Thuka made the following statement.

"The Bangladesh army is making this accusation of our ties with the KNF to cover up the fact that they are supporting various Muslim terrorist groups, including the ARSA, operating within their territory near the Arakan border."

When asked at the press conference if the Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF) was attempting to extend its influence in the Chittagong Hill Tracts by obtaining weapons from the Arakan Army, Bangladesh Army Brigadier General Md Nazim-Ud-Daula responded, "The links between the KNF and the AA are not surprising given the common ideologies among their ethnic groups."

In response to this, U Khaing Thukha stated, "What we want to say is that the charges made by the Bangladesh army that we are supplying arms to the KNF are totally unfounded."

U Khaing Thu Kha argued that the reason why the KNF is supported is that it shares the same ethnicity and religion, which is also unacceptable.

"To gain a better understanding of the various ethnic groups in Bangladesh, I believe the military officers should research their history and relationships. This is due to the fact that, in terms of culture, ethnicity, and religion, the Mizo people of Mizoram state in India are only connected to the Kuki and some other ethnic groups. I want to emphasize that it is (absolutely) incorrect to accuse us of sharing the same religion and ethnicity when you don't know the true history.”

U Khaing Thu Kha also said, "Who founded the KNF? How did the Bangladesh Army create the KNF? Who established them for the divide and rule policy? Everyone who studies military politics is familiar with the history of the KNF. Everybody is aware of this. I would like to state that the claims made by others are unfounded and very annoying.”

The Bangladesh Army conducted a press conference last Thursday to address the arrest of Major Sadique of the Bangladesh Army for training members of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's party, and the press conference revealed connections between the KNF and the AA.

Brig. Gen. Md Nazim-Ud-Daula of the Bangladesh Army stated that the KNF is an ethnic armed group engaged in an armed battle against the Bangladeshi government and that earlier this year, eight Bangladeshi troops were murdered and several others were wounded in an attack by the KNF.

09/30/2024

On September 29, Indigenous Diaspora community from the Chittagong Hill tracts, Bangladesh living in greater Sydney, Australia organised protest regarding the killing of Chakma innocent civilians in Chittagong Hill Tract area in Bangladesh.
Other Rakhine, Marama, and Indigenous peoples from Bangladesh also joined together and participated in protest.
In the Ramgamati area of Bangladesh, Chakmas was violently attacked, and some local residents, including children and women, were killed and injured.

In addition, Buddhist monasteries, Chakma minority homes, and shops were also burned down.
ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံ၊စစ်တကောင်းတောင်တန်းဒေသရှိလူနည်းစုတွေအပါအဝင် ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံရှိ လူနည်းစုတွေကို အကာအကွယ်ပေးဖို့ သြစတေးလျာနိုင်ငံမှာ စက်တင်ဘာလ ၂၉ ရက်နေ့က ဆန္ဒပြတောင်းဆိုခဲ့ကြပါတယ်။

အဲဒီဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံ၊ရမ်ဂါမတီဒေသမှာ စက်တင်ဘာလဒုတိယအပတ်က လူနည်းစုချက္ကမတွေအပါအဝင် ဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာကိုးကွယ်သူတွေ အကြမ်းဖက်တို က်ခိုက်ခံရပြီး ကလေးသူငယ်တွေ၊အမျိုးသမီးတွေအပါအဝင်ဒေသခံတချို့သေဆုံးဒဏ်ရာရရှိခဲ့ကြပါတယ်။

အဲဒီအပြင် ဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာဘုန်းတော်ကြီးကျောင်းတွေ၊ချက္ကမလူနည်းစုနေအိမ်တွေ၊စျေးဆိုင်တွေ
လည်း မီးရှို့ဖျက်ဆီးခံခဲ့ကြရပါတယ်။

29 सितंबर को सिडनी, ऑस्ट्रेलिया में चकमा समुदाय ने बांग्लादेश में चटगांव हिल ट्रैक्ट क्षेत्र में चकमा निर्दोष नागरिकों की हत्या के संबंध में विरोध प्रदर्शन का आयोजन किया।
बांग्लादेश के अन्य राखीन, मरामा और स्वदेशी लोग भी एक साथ शामिल हुए और विरोध में भाग लिया।
बांग्लादेश के रामगामती क्षेत्र में चकमास पर हिंसक हमला किया गया और बच्चों और महिलाओं सहित कुछ स्थानीय निवासी मारे गए और घायल हो गए।
২৯শে সেপ্টেম্বর অস্ট্রেলিয়ার সিডনিতে চাকমা সম্প্রদায় বাংলাদেশের পার্বত্য চট্টগ্রাম এলাকায় চাকমা নিরীহ বেসামরিক নাগরিকদের হত্যার প্রতিবাদে প্রতিবাদের আয়োজন করে।
বাংলাদেশের অন্যান্য রাখাইন, মারামা ও আদিবাসীরাও একত্রিত হয়ে প্রতিবাদে অংশ নেয়।
বাংলাদেশের রামগামতি এলাকায় চাকমাদের সহিংস হামলায় শিশু ও নারীসহ স্থানীয় কিছু বাসিন্দা নিহত ও আহত হয়।

এছাড়া বৌদ্ধ বিহার, চাকমা সংখ্যালঘুদের বাড়িঘর, দোকানপাটও পুড়িয়ে দেওয়া হয়। इसके अलावा, बौद्ध मठ, चकमा अल्पसंख्यक घर और दुकानें भी जला दी गईं।

08/21/2024

"Fact-Checking and Incident Analysis Report" on the Incident near Maungdaw Town, Arakan on August 5, 2024

This report has been analyzed and written by the ULA/AA Research Team. The primary objective of this report is to document the basic information related to the incidents near Maungdaw, verify the details, analyze the actual circumstances, and examine potential perpetrators and those possibly involved from a research perspective.

This report aims to provide a clearer understanding of the complex situation on the ground in Maungdaw and is hoped to contribute to the pursuit of truth and justice for those affected by this incident.

08/19/2024

So-Called Activists Exploiting Muslims in Arakan

AK-Media 8/19/2024

(An Interview with the New Generation Researcher Kim from UNC (Charlotte) on Muslims' Situation in Arakan)

08/10/2024

Who Destroyed and Burned the Town of Buthidaung? (Interview)
Border News Agency
Buthidaung, August 9.
During the period when the Arakan Army (AA) was conducting military operations and attacks, there were reports of civilians being detained and homes being burned in Buthidaung town.
After the Arakan Army (AA) completed its siege of Buthidaung town, it is said that the Arakan People's Government has since been establishing administrative control in the area.
Before the siege of Buthidaung town, who was responsible for burning and destroying the area? What events transpired?
A local resident from Buthidaung town has provided an account. He lives in Ward 5 of Buthidaung and is a prominent figure. Details of what he has reported can be viewed in full on television.

06/12/2024

Chinese Government Provides 6 Patrol Boats to Myanmar Junta

Crd:BNA
Yangon, June 12.

During the height of the war in Rakhine, the Chinese government provided six patrol boats to the Myanmar military junta on June 11. The delivery took place in Yangon City, and these patrol vessels are intended to assist Myanmar in ensuring maritime safety, conducting search and rescue operations, and protecting water resources.

The Chinese government's assertion that "actively promoting the implementation of global security measures in Myanmar will protect the common interests of both countries" underscores their rationale for providing these patrol boats.

Observers familiar with Rakhine affairs speculate that the boats are intended for use in the ongoing war, particularly anticipating their potential deployment in scenarios such as the Kyauk Phru city capture battle.

According to an observer of Rakhine affairs interviewed by the Border News Agency, the recent Thandwe battle exposed vulnerabilities within the Myanmar junta. Consequently, they view China's provision of timely support for the ongoing conflict and potential engagements, like the Kyauk Phru battles, as a legitimization of military assistance to the junta, with the junta feeling compelled to safeguard China's interests.

China, in response, stated, "Commencing with the transfer of patrol boats, we aim to enhance cooperation in law enforcement capacity building and combat transnational crimes, including gambling, fraud, and drug trafficking, through sustained and comprehensive efforts.''

The project was initially proposed to China by the Myanmar government in June 2018. Subsequently, during President Xi Jinping's visit to Myanmar in 2020, the two sides formalized their commitment to the project by signing an exchange letter.

Amidst the ongoing Rakhine War, the Arakan Army (AA) has launched attacks and seized control of numerous towns in the Rakhine region. Attacks persist in areas such as Maungdaw, Thandwe, Ann, and Kyauk Phru townships.

During this critical juncture of the Rakhine War, the Myanmar military junta finds itself facing defeats from multiple fronts, prompting heavy reliance on the Navy for defense. However, the Arakan Army (AA) has been actively targeting and destroying naval warships, exacerbating the junta's challenges.

In light of these circumstances, there is criticism directed at China for its assistance to the Myanmar junta, particularly as the war escalates and the junta's reliance on external support becomes more apparent.

(Photo: A patrol boat provided by China to the Myanmar Junta/Chinese Embassy)

01/25/2024

Arakan Army Gains Control of Pauktaw Town

January 24, 2024 - The three brotherhood alliance announced last night that the Arakan Army (AA) has achieved complete control over Pauktaw town in Rakhine state. The exact timing of this takeover was not specified in the statement. Reports from local media since January 20 suggest that the AA had been gaining ground in Paktaw. Veteran Rakhine politician U Pe Than also hinted at this possibility in an interview with RFA on January 20, noting the withdrawal of military council troops from the town.

Furthermore, the alliance stated its ongoing efforts to capture military council camps in Mrauk U, Min Bya, Kyauktaw, and Rathaedaung townships, with intensifying conflicts over camp control. Rambre Township also continues to experience hostilities, witnessing a record 33 air strikes on January 24.

Additionally, reports indicate that recent violence in Buthidaung, Maungdaw, and Min Bya towns resulted in casualties, including the death of four individuals and injuries to 13 others.

Efforts to contact General Zaw Min Tun, the Military Council spokesperson, for comments on the AA's control of Pauktaw, remained unanswered.

For more detailed coverage, stay updated with Arakkha Media.

01/24/2024

United League of Arakan Announces Aid for Displaced Families in Paletwa

January 24, 2024 – The United League of Arakan (ULA), in a recent announcement, has stepped forward to provide aid to the displaced families of Myeikwa village, Paletwa region. The ULA announced that on January 24, they distributed 206,500 Kyat and 73 bushels of rice to each of the 121 households now residing in their hometown.

The assistance comes after a prolonged period of displacement, with 136 families initially fleeing the conflict to India and other areas within Arakan State since August 2022. With the Paletwa region currently under the control of the ULA/AA, the focus is on rebuilding and crisis resolution for these communities.

This initiative by the ULA is a part of a broader effort to support families who have weathered the conflict alongside them and are now facing the task of reconstruction. While 121 families have made the journey back, others remain as war refugees in Kyauktaw, Mrauk Oo, and across the Indian border.

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