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22-11-2023, 09:40 PM
Myanmar has been in turmoil since the military ousted a government led by Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in a 2021 coup
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar...52043.html
Junta soldiers have blocked highways and waterways throughout western Myanmar’s Rakhine state, halting the flow of medicine, fuel and other basic commodities as the regime contends with renewed attacks from the Arakan Army, an ethnic rebel group, several local residents told Radio Free Asia on Monday.
Troops have set up security checkpoints on roads linking towns and villages in both southern and northern Rakhine state, and the drivers of buses and cargo trucks have been stranded on the roadside after being denied access to the Sittwe-Yangon highway.
“They said that the blockade will be lifted only when security returns to normal,” the driver of a passenger bus who requested anonymity for security reasons told RFA. “So, we prepare our meals here.”
The road and waterway closures began on Nov. 13, shortly after the Arakan Army ended a year-old ceasefire when it attacked police outposts and junta convoys in Rathedaung and Minbya townships.
The offensive in Rakhine state coincided with the Arakan Army’s participation in Operation 1027 – named after the Oct. 27 start of the military offensive – as part of the “Three Brotherhood Alliance” with two other armed ethnic groups against the military in Shan state in the north
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar...52043.html
Junta soldiers have blocked highways and waterways throughout western Myanmar’s Rakhine state, halting the flow of medicine, fuel and other basic commodities as the regime contends with renewed attacks from the Arakan Army, an ethnic rebel group, several local residents told Radio Free Asia on Monday.
Troops have set up security checkpoints on roads linking towns and villages in both southern and northern Rakhine state, and the drivers of buses and cargo trucks have been stranded on the roadside after being denied access to the Sittwe-Yangon highway.
“They said that the blockade will be lifted only when security returns to normal,” the driver of a passenger bus who requested anonymity for security reasons told RFA. “So, we prepare our meals here.”
The road and waterway closures began on Nov. 13, shortly after the Arakan Army ended a year-old ceasefire when it attacked police outposts and junta convoys in Rathedaung and Minbya townships.
The offensive in Rakhine state coincided with the Arakan Army’s participation in Operation 1027 – named after the Oct. 27 start of the military offensive – as part of the “Three Brotherhood Alliance” with two other armed ethnic groups against the military in Shan state in the north
