The site of an air strike where a strike would have been led by the army of Arakan in a village in the Rakhine State (photo provided, taken and broadcast on January 9, 2025 by the armed group armed with Arakan) . Handout / AFP The army of Arakan (AA) went to the offensive outside its territory: this powerful ethnic armed group which claims autonomy for the Rakhine State, located in the west of Burma Long of the Gulf of Bengal, indeed captured, at the end of January, defensive positions of the Burmese army outside its original perimeter: the combatants infiltrated in the province of Magwe, around the canton of Ngape, making 60 Dead among Tatmadaw soldiers – the Burmese armed forces -, according to the media in exile. It is one more setback for the Burmese armed forces, four years after the coup d’etat of General Min Aung Hlaing against the civil government of Aung San Suu Kyi, and which could announce more decisive. In January, after Gwa, the southernmost city of the Rakhine State, 180 kilometers from Rangoun, the Arakani guerrilla warfare, which is estimated to be at least 30,000 fighters, already entered the region of the region Delta de l’Irrawaddy, up to fifty kilometers from Ngwe Saung, one of the prized beaches of the Rangounais. “The Arakanais have an interest in getting out of their borders to build up a buffer area, go to food sources and attack the arms factories,” analyzes a Western expert in security issues in Rangoun. The Irrawaddy region is the Burma rice attic. However, the Rakhine State, populated by 3.1 million inhabitants, undergoes food shortages. You have 77.73% of this article to read. The rest is reserved for subscribers.
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Publish date : 2025-02-06 17:51:04
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