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- By ASF
Criminalizing the Victims by Arakan Army: How Rohingya Are Blamed for Their Own Flight
In northern Arakan, displacement of Rohingya Muslims is not treated as a humanitarian consequence of coercion and fear, but as proof of wrongdoing. Under the control of the Arakan Army, a consistent narrative has emerged in which Rohingya flight is.......
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360 Rohingya Detained: How the Arakan Army Is Turning Buthidaung into a Landscape of Fear
Since late 2024, more than 360 Rohingya civilians have reportedly been detained by the terrorist Arakan Army (AA) amid intensifying so-called “security restrictions” across Buthidaung Township in Myanmar’s Arakan (Rakhine) State. Arrests surged after AA consolidated control over rural tracts,.......
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Price Punishment: Why Rohingya Pay More for Food After AA Seizes Their Land
Across northern Arakan State, the Arakan Army has turned food into a weapon against Rohingya civilians. After seizing farmland in Maungdaw, Buthidaung, and Rathedaung, it destroyed local food production and engineered scarcity. Communities once self-sufficient in rice, vegetables, and fish.......
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Forced Out and Blamed: How the Arakan Army Terrorizes the Rohingya
Across northern Maungdaw and Buthidaung, the Arakan Army (AA) has adopted a brutal, systematic strategy: persecute Rohingya communities, then falsely blame them for fleeing. This dual approach coercion followed by criminalization now defines AA’s operational doctrine. On 29 November in.......
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Arakan Army force Rohingya Muslim businessmen to become so called partners in their businesses
Across northern Arakan, the terrorist Arakan Army is systematically forcing Rohingya businessmen into coerced “partnerships.” Shop owners and traders are summoned and threatened with seizure or destruction of their property unless they surrender ownership shares. This is not voluntary commerce;.......
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Starvation by Design: How Arakan Army Land Seizures Turn Rohingya Farmers Into Food-Dependent Civilians
From 2023 to 2025, the terrorist Arakan Army systematically seized an estimated 45,000 to 60,000 acres of Rohingya agricultural land across Maungdaw, Buthidaung, and Rathedaung townships. Using armed force and fake “security zone” declarations, the drug mafia Arakan Army confiscated.......
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The Mirage of Equality: How the Arakan Army’s Dictatorship Systematically Criminalizes Rohingya Existence
The Arakan Army (AA) presents itself as a force of justice, federalism, and civilian protection under the slogan of the “Way of Rakhita.” In reality, its rule in northern Arakan State has perfected what the Myanmar state began: the systematic.......
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Checkpoint Economies: How Everyday Extortion Funds the Arakan Army While Impoverishing Rohingya
Across northern Arakan (Rakhine), the terrorist Arakan Army (AA) has institutionalized a predatory checkpoint economy that converts everyday Rohingya movement into a steady revenue stream for its criminal enterprise. Since consolidating control in Buthidaung and Maungdaw in late 2023 and.......
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Environmental Warfare: How the Terrorist Arakan Army Weaponizes Land and Water Against Rohingya
Across northern Arakan, the terrorist Arakan Army (AA) is conducting environmental warfare against Rohingya communities, systematically seizing land, rivers, and fisheries to collapse civilian survival. Since mid-2023, following AA’s expansion in Buthidaung and Maungdaw, Rohingya access to farmland and coastal.......