An internally displaced person (IDP) and another local man in Kyauktaw Township, Arakan State, who had been detained by the military for some three months before being transferred to police custody this week, have reportedly been charged under Section 17(1) of the Unlawful Associations Act. 

Ko Sithu Kyaw Zan aka Ko Michael, a 46-year-old man from Kanpaing Ward in Arakan State’s Taungup, was detained by police on Friday night, according to family members. 

An elderly man who was gravely wounded by an artillery strike in Shwepyithit Village, part of Arakan State’s Kyauktaw Township, on Thursday morning succumbed to his injuries in the hospital later that day.

Muslim students attending Sittwe University are being denied the chance to apply for grant-based financial assistance despite the fact that university authorities have indicated that first-year students would have that opportunity for the 2022-23 academic year.

The Myanmar military regime has barred the supply of rice to Dawei, the capital of Tanintharyi Region, according to local rice merchants.

Only seven of 21 Arakanese and Muslim people detained by the Myanmar military at the central market and near the local jetty in Arakan State’s Buthidaung Township on October 23 have been released so far, and the others have been denied family visits nearly two weeks into their detention.

Eleven civilians were killed and 31 others were injured in shooting incidents and landmine explosions in Arakan State and neighbouring Chin State’s Paletwa Township last month, according to a DMG tally.

Several civilians were seriously injured after artillery shells landed and exploded across multiple villages in Kyauktaw Township, Arakan State, this week.

Two boat owners from Arakan State’s Rathedaung Township have been charged under Section 17(1) of the Unlawful Associations Act for allegedly paying taxes to the Arakan Army (AA).

A police officer at Maei Police Station in Arakan State’s Taungup Township was reportedly abducted by the Arakan Army (AA) on Friday morning, according to a ward administrator and a local.

An internally displaced person (IDP) and another local man in Kyauktaw Township, who had been detained by the military for some three months, were reportedly transferred to a police station on the morning of November 3. 

Recent meetings between Myanmar and Bangladeshi border guard and police force officials will not result in substantive cooperation between the two sides, and will do little to quell Arakan Army (AA) attacks on Myanmar military positions along the border, observers say. 

Four journalists were killed in Myanmar since last year’s military coup, and five others were killed before the putsch dating back to 1999, with the perpetrators of these crimes enjoying impunity, Free Expression Myanmar (FEM) said in a statement marking International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists on Wednesday

Myanmar’s military regime has enacted the Organization Registration Law, which in the view of civil society organisations, activists and politicians is intended to restrict the operations of various organisations and associations, and contain the popular revolt against the junta. 

Thousands of locals in Kayin State’s Kawkareik Township have fled to safer locations as a military column has been raiding some villages near Kyaikdon town since November 2. 

With fighting between the Myanmar military and Arakan Army ongoing across much of Arakan State, the AA spokesman says the military’s conduct going forward will determine the ethnic armed group’s response.

Myanmar’s border trade with Bangladesh via Maungdaw has declined by almost 90 percent since the military regime imposed travel restrictions in mid-August along the Agnumaw-Maungdaw road, a key route for border commerce with Bangladesh, according to traders in Maungdaw.

Frequent artillery strikes by Myanmar military battalions and bases in Minbya, Kyauktaw and Buthidaung townships are making the rice harvest virtually impossible, many local farmers say. 

More than 100 people are struggling to make ends meet and need assistance after they were evicted from a plot of land adjacent to Yanaungmyay Monastery in Arakan State’s Buthidaung Township that the Myanmar military claims ownership of, according to camp officials and IDPs.