The Arakan Army (AA) posted on its Telegram channel that a military jet bombed a detention area in Mrauk-U Township at about 4.45pm local time on Saturday. The AA, in conflict with the country’s ...

One of the scariest travel experiences I’ve ever had happened in Myanmar, when I visited the ancient temples of Mrauk-U in March 2019 and saw the military open fire on ethnonationalist soldiers.

The violence occurred after more than 4,000 ethnic Rakhine Buddhists gathered in Mrauk U on Tuesday to protest at a ban on the annual commemoration of the fall of the ancient Arakan kingdom.

In Rakhine state, three airstrikes in Mrauk-U Township on 18 January reportedly killed 28 people and injured a further 25, while in the northwest, airstrikes last week reportedly claimed the lives of ...