The Arakan State Peace and Stability Supporting Committee provided over K260 million for about 30,000 refugees living in seven townships in Arakan State.

On May 21, head of Min Pyin police station filed a complaint against three village security officers, who tied a policeman’s hands behind his back, at the Kyauk Phyu Myoma police station.

Since a military troop has been positioned in Pauktawpyin village in Ponnagyun Township since May 16, local residents who are worried about being detained have fled from home, villagers said.

Poor transportation makes it difficult to collect lists of students from all IDP camps, according to the Office of the Head of Education Department in Arakan State.

Chawbi, 38, and his eight years old son Sayrahman, died while another person identified as Mahmat Afan was injured after the shell landed on Tuesday afternoon.

“People from our village were killed by gunfire. Our lives are becoming increasingly difficult and our children’s education is problematic because we cannot go back home. We can return home only when there is a ceasefire,”

“The court dismissed an appeal of Dr Aye Maung at the High Court level for submitting the appeal. The court have to decide if they accept it or not, however they did not give any reason so they dismissed it,” said U Kyaw Nyunt Maung, lawyer of Dr Aye Maung.

Arakan state has the largest outbreak of schistosomiasis cases among fourteen states and regions in Myanmar, said Dr Kyi Lwin, head of the Department of Public Health in Arakan State.

Farmers could not do cultivation in time because of the curfew imposed in the region, said U Than Shwe, member of the Committee for Protecting the Rights and Enhancing the Interests of Farmers.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Mr. Filippo Grandi and a delegation arrived at Sittwe on the afternoon of May 20 and visited Buthidaung and Maungdaw Townships.

A gunfire broke out in Buthidaung Township while United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Mr. Filippo Grandi was visiting Arakan State.

Ma Athein Chay from Myauktaung village was struck by a stray bullet in her head. She was on the way home with her brother from a monastery where they donated beverages, her brother escaped.

The occasion is annually hosted on the full moon day of Kasone, in second month of the Myanmar calendar year. The first three events were crowded with people, but a group of people made threats at last year’s event,

Local residents are concerned that they would face a rice scarcity and rice prices would increase in the coming rainy season following the ongoing skirmishes in Arakan State, but U Shwe Tun Aung said that the price of rice was not likely to increase in the rainy season.

Teachers from Maungdaw, Buthidaung and Rathedaung Townships are especially concerned that they would be caught in the middle of crossfires because of transportation difficulties in the region there.

Now that journalists in Myanmar have been charged under laws that are not applicable to journalism and the media, the News Media Law should only be employed to charge journalists who don’t adhere to the requisites of the laws, the Myanmar Press Council (MPC) said in its statement released on May 16.

The villagers have been presented with lawsuits under section 50 (i) and 52(a) of the Counter-terrorism laws, said police captain Aung Mya Oo, head of No. (1) police station in Sittwe.

Family members today held funeral ceremonies for a detained man from Kyauktan village, who died in Yangon’s North Okkalapa hospital while undergoing medical treatment for an injury he received from gunfire during the Tatmadaw’s interrogations.

A UN senior official expressed her serious concern about the condition of IDPs in Arakan State, the number has reached over 30,000 within a six-month period due to the ongoing armed conflicts between the Tatmadaw and the Arakan Army.