Antiretroviral therapy (ART) drugs, used to control HIV infection, could previously be bought either from the health department or from pharmacies, but since the regime blocked off the roads, the drugs have completely run out of stock in Arakan State.

The junta airstrikes, the first air assault in Gwa Township, killed the local woman and injured six people — four men and two women — from Kyaukkhaungkwin Village on the Thandwe-Kyeintali-Gwa road and another man from Cedikwin Village.

Driven by intense monsoon rains since late June, severe flooding has impacted more than 200,000 people in Myanmar, with many temporarily displaced, the statement said.

Thandwe residents who were attempting to return to Arakan State after fleeing the fighting to Ayeyarwady Region and Yangon were turned back, said a Thandwe woman taking shelter in Ayeyarwady Region.

“Rice plants are now covered in mud after the flood. Perhaps one-third of rice plants may survive if it rains. But they won’t if it does not rain,” said farmer U Maung Thein Aung from Maha Muni Village.

Karenni State has suffered the most with 920 airstrikes, followed by Shan State with 680 strikes over the past nine months, according to the ISP report.

Junta soldiers stationed in Ywathitkone Village detained seven underage youths while conducting interrogations of passersby on August 6.

U La Min Kyaw Thu, an official from the ABC Foundation, said that donors who had regularly provided support fled to safety due to the instability in Arakan State, resulting in a drop in donations received.

Thai ambassador to Myanmar Mongkol Visitstump met the junta’s immigration and population minister U Myint Kyaing in Naypyidaw on Tuesday. 

Sixty-three women were killed and 43 others were injured at the hands of Myanmar’s military regime last month across the country including Arakan State, the Burmese Women’s Union (BWU) said on Tuesday.

Referring to fierce fighting in both northern and southern Arakan State, Min Aung Hlaing said AA leaders are wrecking the lives of Arakanese people with their own hands.

The AA attacked junta positions from the north, south and east of Maungdaw Township. It has surrounded Maungdaw Town after seizing other junta positions.

A junta jet fighter reportedly launched an airstrike on Mrauk-U Township, held by the Arakkha Army (AA), at around 2 a.m. on Tuesday.

Following the fall of the Northeastern Command in Lashio, which is the third largest military headquarters among the 14 regional commands, regime chief Min Aung Hlaing made a televised speech on August 5.

The Chin Brotherhood vowed to work together with all the anti-regime groups across the country in fighting for a federal, democratic Union with self-determination, justice, mutual respect and equality.

The military affairs committee of anti-regime groups in Karenni State have congratulated the Brotherhood Alliance on their military victories in Arakan and northern Shan states and Mandalay Region.

Myanmar’s military regime has been forcibly recruiting Muslims trapped in Arakan State’s Maungdaw Town, prompting many to flee to Bangladesh as of the last week of July.

Junta troops arrived in three vehicles and checked households in five wards including Kathe, Danyawaddy and Mingan, making dozens of arrests.

A junta jet fighter dropped bombs on TNLA positions near the scenes of fighting multiple times on August 4, the TNLA statement said.