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“I fear it is becoming more difficult to get people to pay attention.”

An overview of conflict, from protests to military and militant violence, in the Asia-Pacific in March 2025.

The AA has entered into alliances and built on terrain and other advantages to emerge as a formidable organization in Rakhine State.

Rohingya interviewees in Rakhine State can be broadly categorized into three groups – those who welcome the AA's policies, those who feel compelled to do so, and those who could be hostile.

The Arakan Army's involvement in the August 5 massacre and other attacks on Rohingya civilians has raised thorny question for Myanmar's resistance movement.

As with many other humanitarian organizations, it has been impossible for Doctors Without Borders to provide essential healthcare to the people in areas controlled by ethnic armed groups due to movement restrictions set by the authorities.

Rohingya are not asking for special treatment – they are asking for the most basic human rights that have been denied to them for far too long. 

Reports of arson attacks and the mass displacement of Rohingya civilians in western Myanmar are being used as rhetorical weapons in the country's civil war.

The U.N.'s human rights office says that tens of thousands have been forcibly displaced in what one expert described as a "hate-driven unnatural disaster."

The Arakan Army claims that it has overrun the 15th Military Operations Command headquarters in northern Rakhine State.

After years of conflict and ethnic cleansing, recent military gains by the Arakan Army have opened up fresh possibilities for the region's future.

Five boats carrying nearly 900 people have reached western Indonesia over the past week, UNHCR officials say.