On 24 May 2026, a brutal landmine explosion near the Ghumdhum border at Tumbru Zero Point killed three Bangladeshi civilians, Akyamong, Chikyamong, and Shaifuching Tangchangya while they worked in a banana plantation. The first died instantly; the others were blown apart attempting rescue. Police recovered the bodies, but the tragedy exposed the escalating frontier warfare driven by the terrorist Arakan Army (AA). On 26 May, the AA narco-mafia shamelessly denied responsibility, trying to scapegoat defensive Rohingya groups like ARSA, ARA, and RSO.

This propaganda is a complete farce. The AA holds dominant operational control over these exact border corridors facing Bandarban. Local residents live in constant terror of landmines planted systematically by the AA to enforce its bloody, militarized expansion.The AA’s deflection is pure hypocrisy. These heavily armed cartels terrorise, extort, and slaughter unarmed Rohingya daily.

The world cannot forget their depravity during the infamous Hoyyar Siri Massacre, where AA forces trapped and slaughtered nearly 500 unarmed Rohingya civilians, burned their village to ashes, and coerced survivors to lie to cover up their war crimes. Framing defensive Rohingya resistance factions as perpetrators is a grotesque twist of reality.

This latest slaughter belongs entirely to the wider pattern of cross-border terror orchestrated under the AA’s criminal shadow. According to the Global Landmine Monitor, a staggering 68-kilometer stretch of the Bangladesh-Myanmar border is trembling with landmine risks. Statistics from 2017 to 2026 prove that more than 30 Bangladeshis have been killed and hundreds permanently crippled by these hidden killers with the vast majority of these deaths and maimings directly caused by the Arakan Army’s reckless mine-laying operations.

Furthermore, about 30 percent of the border’s vital cropland and jum cultivation zones are now completely abandoned. Local livelihoods have been systematically destroyed by the unyielding threat of AA landmines and their incessant, indiscriminate shelling. The blood of these innocent civilians is squarely on the hands of the Arakan Army.

This terrorist cartel has turned a peaceful frontier into a graveyard. The world sees through the propaganda: the terror on the border, the abandoned lands, and the stolen lives are the direct, undeniable legacy of the Arakan Army’s unchecked brutality.