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Insufficient water adds to hardship faced by civilians, IDPs throughout Myanmar
People in three states told Myanmar Now about the difficulties they face in getting sufficient water, a problem that has become worse with climate change and increased privation due to conflict
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As Rakhine State war intensifies, an island town resists conscription and struggles with scarcity
As they defy Myanmar’s reactivated military service law, civilians on Manaung (Cheduba) Island face rising prices and growing food instability despite their remoteness from the fighting between junta and AA forces
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‘Death will follow us wherever we go,’ Rohingya civilians lament after junta targets village in major airstrike
The military bombs a Rohingya village in Rakhine State’s Minbya Township, killing more than 20 people, even though no recent fighting with the Arakan Army had occurred in the location
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Arakan Army takes Rathedaung, its eighth town seizure in Rakhine State
The ethnic Rakhine armed group overtook three military bases as the junta retaliates elsewhere with airstrikes and artillery fire targeting civilians
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Five forcibly recruited Rohingya men killed in battle in Rakhine State
An NUG official alleged that the junta is violating international humanitarian law, using young Rohingya men as ‘human shields’ in battles against the AA after rounding them up from displaced persons’ camps in Rakhine State
