Myanmar Military Aims For Rohingya Muslims, Dozens Killed And Dozens Injured

Archival Photos - Refugee Flow Still Occurs Rohingya Refugees Running across the river after crossing the Myanmar-Bangladesh border in Teknaf, Cox Bazar, Bangladesh,/DOK ANTARA

JAKARTA - The artillery attack of the Myanmar army in the west of Rakhine state killed dozens of Rohingya Muslims. This was conveyed by a human rights activist. According to Ro Nay San Lwin, co-founder of the Merdeka Rohingya Coalition, a network of Rohingya refugees, the Myanmar military has targeted people living in Buthidaung Tsp village in Hpon Nyo Lake in the last two days. “Furthers of Rohingya residents were killed & dozens injured in two days. Myanmar's military fired artillery at Buthidaung Tsp village in Hpon Nyo Lake in Rakhine state on Thursday and Friday,” Lwin told X quoted from Anadolu via Antara, Sunday, January 28. "In the midst of fighting between the Arakan Army and the Myanmar military, there were a lot of victims of the Rohingya population and were targeted," he added. In 2017, the mass exodus of Rohingya residents was triggered by Myanmar's brutal military action against the Muslim minority in Southeast Asia. Since then, about 1.2 million Rohingya have fled to neighboring Bangladesh to live in the precarious situation in the world's largest refugee camp in Cox's Bazar.

Currently, there are at least three armed ethnic groups, united under the Brotherhood Alliance. Since late October they have been fighting against the junta regime to control northern Myanmar. Myanmar has been ruled by the junta since February 2021. The country's military, known as the Tatmadaw, is facing fierce resistance from ethnic groups in many parts of the Buddhist-majority country.