One of the most powerful ethnic minority armed groups battling Myanmar’s army claims it has captured the last military outpost in a strategic western town, gaining full control of the 270-kilometer (170-mile) -long border with Bangladesh.
FILE - Myanmar border guards stand to provide security near the fence at a no-man’s land between Myanmar and Bangladesh , near Taungpyolatyar village, Maungdaw, northern Rakhine State, Myanmar , on June 29, 2018. BANGKOK — One of the most powerful ethnic minority armed groups battling Myanmar ’s army has claimed the capture of the last army outpost in the strategic western town of Maungdaw, gaining full control of the 271-kilometer -long border with Bangladesh .
Khaing Thukha, a spokesperson for the Arakan Army, told The Associated Press by text message from an undisclosed location late Monday that his group had seized the last remaining military outpost in Maungdaw on Sunday. Maungdaw, about 400 kilometers southwest of Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city, has been the target since June of an Arakan Army offensive. The group captured Paletwa andSince November 2023, the Arakan Army has gained control of 11 of Rakhine’s 17 townships, along with one in neighboring Chin state.
Recent fighting in Rakhine has raised fears of a revival of organized violence against members of the Muslim Rohingya minority, similar to that which drove at least 740,000 members of their community The border between Myanmar and Bangladesh extends from land to the Naf River and offshore in the Bay of Bengal.
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