Parliamentarians and lawyers say the rights of families with members who died in Tatmadaw custody in Arakan State have been violated because they were not given the chance to retrieve the bodies of their relatives.

A Mrauk-U court on August 27 granted bail to Soe Moe Kyaw from Pyine Cha village in Mrauk-U township because he is under 18, nearly five months after he was detained on a Counter-terrorism Law charge.

Villagers said that the rocket shell that landed on the house came from a hill in the village from which the Tatmadaw fired artillery shells into the armed confrontational area. However, the Tatmadaw denied the accusation of the villagers.

A landmine explosion occurred near a border guard’s checkpoint on Maungdaw-Buthidaung road in the night of 25 August.

“Any military troops are not allowed to leave well from Arakanese land after killing our people,” said the AA’s spokesperson Khaing Thukha said.

The Tatmadaw troop positioned on a hill in the middle of Panmyaung village in Minbya Township fired artillery on the morning of 25 August, forcing villagers to flee from their homes, according to local sources.

If the Tatmadaw does not extend its unilateral ceasefire time past an August 31 deadline it will be important to reconsider how to move the peace process forward, General Yawd Serk, the temporary leader of Peace Process Steering Team (PPST), said at the first day of the PPST meeting

While family members were having breakfast in their house at about 10 a.m, an artillery shell landed on the house, killing Ma Nyo Nyo Win, 16, Maung Min Htet Kyaw, 9, and Maung Aung Kyaw Phyo, 6.

A man from Pauk Taw Pyin village, Mrauk-U Township, who was returning home from tending his cattle, was shot by Tatmadaw troops.

“I heard an explosion near the bridge. The Myanmar army reportedly shot into village following the explosion. Villagers fled from their homes. People ran to the monastery. She was hit while she was near the lake,” the senior monk said.

“To put it bluntly about these groups (Northern Alliance), the Tatmadaw welcomes them if they will come to the peace conference. If they want to fight, we are ready for that too,” Maj-Gen Soe Naing Oo said.

The Yangon western district court set up a tribunal yesterday to deal with the case of Arakanese youths of Arakan Association (Singapore) who have been charged under Counter-Terrorism Law, according to lawyers.

Eleven people from Shinletwa village in Paletwa Township and two homeowners from Kyauktaw town have been accused for involvement with the AA and providing food for the AA members.

The Tatmadaw and the AA have been intensely fighting since early Friday at Taung Phyu mountain range in Minbya Township, two helicopters provided air strikes for the Tatmadaw, local sources said.

A new charge has been brought against a primary school teacher from Buthidaung Township’s Kyuak Yan village who has been detained and charged under Counter-Terrorism Laws, according to his family members.

The ICRC said it will work with proper authorities if Tin Nyo IDP camp in Mrauk-U Township needs rice and other food in spite the regional government’s recent order to stop providing rice for the camp.

A local resident from Rathedaung Township was taken by a military troop as a guide on 21 August, and he has not returned home yet, villagers said.

The directorate is going to construct an office building on the plot in Sittwe city’s Set Yone Zu Ward and released notification on 7 August to remove 18 houses from the plot.

Internally displaced persons in Tin Nyo IDP camp, Mrauk U, are facing food shortages because the government has stopped rice deliveries from the International Committee of the Red Cross, camp official U Soe Naing said.