Gwa Township residents are facing the shortages as the regime has banned the transportation of food and commodities from Ayeyarwady Region into the area.

Although some of those people were released after negotiating with the relevant authorities, there are also many who have been charged under Malaysian immigration law.

Junta officials and village in-charges collected extortion money ranging from K5,000 to K30,000 from Muslim IDP camps and villages in Sittwe Township, locals told DMG.

The junta set up two more security checkpoints in Bumay and Thelchaung villages and has tightened security checks on Muslims there.

In a video clip released on September 11, Khaing Aung Naing from the ALP’s Organizing Department said that ALP members are protecting people’s lives and arresting looters.

Regime airstrikes across five townships in northern Shan State and three townships in Arakan State reportedly killed some 90 prisoners of war (POWs) and wounded at least 30 others in recent days.

Gang theft, looting and robbery are on the rise in Taungup, Arakan State, which remains under the control of Myanmar's military regime, according to local residents.

The AA clashed with the military near Meewa Village and Mt. Taungshae in March 2020, with those hostilities spanning more than 40 days.

The regime has been responding to the AA effort to seize Maungdaw with aerial support and fighting between the military and AA continued to escalate on Wednesday, according to a local source.

Fighting between Myanmar's military regime and the Arakkha Army (AA) has escalated in Gwa Township, Arakan State, after the ethnic armed group seized control of Thandwe Township last month.

Myanmar's military regime, which is being defeated militarily across the country, is carrying out terrorist attacks and airstrikes on civilian areas, killing pregnant women, children and other innocent civilians every day.

Communities in conflict-affected areas face severe challenges accessing healthcare, sanitation, clean water, food, and shelter, the ICRC said in a statement released on Tuesday.

All four are from Gone Chun Village in Kyaukphyu Township, and they were arrested on the creek bank opposite Gone Chun Village on Sunday after crossing the Hlay Kyaung Creek.

Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), met Min Aung Hlaing in Naypyidaw on Monday to discuss the provision of humanitarian aid in Myanmar.

Dozens of prisoners of war (POWs) have been killed and several others injured in junta airstrikes on temporary detention camps set up by the Arakkha Army (AA) in Arakan State’s Pauktaw and Maungdaw townships in recent days.

“Among the townships that suffered damage to between 1,000 and 5,000 homes [each] are Kawlin, Kalay, Buthidaung, Myingyan, and Monywa,” according to the report.

Previously, a local cigarette manufacturing facility produced tens of thousands of cigarettes daily, but production has declined to around 3,000 pieces a day this year, according to business owners.

A landmine victim from Saichone Village in Kyaukphyu Township, Arakan State, is reportedly in need of financial assistance to treat his severe injuries.

Myanmar’s military regime reportedly detained seven local residents and released two of the detainees in Kyaukphyu, Arakan State, in two separate incidents over the past week.