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With the launch of a major offensive against junta military and Border Guard Police positions in most parts of northern Rakhine State on Nov. 13, the Arakan Army (AA) ended a yearlong ceasefire brokered with the regime on humanitarian grounds in 2022. Founded in 2009, the ethnic armed organization is the armed wing of the United League of Arakan and a member of the tripartite Brotherhood Alliance along with the Ta’ang National Liberation Army and the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army.

Recent military actions are not limited to those two major offensives: AA is also fighting junta in other parts of the country, such as in Kachin State and Sagaing Region, coordinating with other armed groups including the Kachin Independence Army and the People’s Defense Force of the National Unity Government. People across Myanmar have been inspired by the AA’s progress, first as it seized towns in northern Shan State, and more recently by its amazing series of triumphs in its own Rakhine State.

The momentum of the war against the junta in Rakhine has increased rapidly with the AA seizing outposts and bases from the junta’s military almost daily. The AA has even been able to seize towns that until recently were firmly under control of the regime. Towns seized by the AA.
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