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AFP The Arakan Army (AA) said on Friday its members beheaded two prisoners in a rare admission of deadly violence as it fights the ruling junta to maintain control of Myanmar’s western borderlands. [1]

After providing free funeral services to more than 120,000 of Burma’s deceased, the founder of Rangoon’s Free Funeral Service Society (FFSS), Kyaw Thu, says he is no longer afraid to face his own mortality. [2]

File Photo: Arakan Army (AA) fighters Fighters from an ethnic minority group pressed their assault on security forces in Myanmar’s Rakhine State for a second day Tuesday, a spokesman said, as an offensive against the military widens across the countr... [3]

AFP One of Myanmar’s most powerful ethnic groups pledged on Monday to block elections in areas it controls, rejecting polls the military junta has touted as a way of ending the nation’s civil war. [4]

Mizzima The United League of Arakan/Arakan Army (ULA/AA) has been in discussions with China about Chinese investments in Rakhine State where the AA has captured a lot of territory from the Myanmar junta. [5]

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[1] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2025-01-25 · 100% match

Myanmar’s Arakan Army admits to beheadings of captured army soldiers

AFP The Arakan Army (AA) said on Friday its members beheaded two prisoners in a rare admission of deadly violence as it fights the ruling junta to maintain control of Myanmar’s western borderlands.

[2] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2013-06-01 · 100% match

FFSS’s Kyaw Thu Reflects on a Life of Healing the Living and Burying the Dead

After providing free funeral services to more than 120,000 of Burma’s deceased, the founder of Rangoon’s Free Funeral Service Society (FFSS), Kyaw Thu, says he is no longer afraid to face his own mortality.

[3] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2023-11-17 · 100% match

Myanmar armed group presses offensive in Rakhine State

File Photo: Arakan Army (AA) fighters Fighters from an ethnic minority group pressed their assault on security forces in Myanmar’s Rakhine State for a second day Tuesday, a spokesman said, as an offensive against the military widens across the countr

[4] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2025-08-12 · 100% match

Myanmar’s Arakan Army vows to block elections in its enclave

AFP One of Myanmar’s most powerful ethnic groups pledged on Monday to block elections in areas it controls, rejecting polls the military junta has touted as a way of ending the nation’s civil war.

[5] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2024-06-12 · 100% match

AA held discussions with China about Chinese investments in Rakhine State

Mizzima The United League of Arakan/Arakan Army (ULA/AA) has been in discussions with China about Chinese investments in Rakhine State where the AA has captured a lot of territory from the Myanmar junta.

[6] MM www.rfa.org · 100% match

https://www.rfa.org/english/myanmar/2024/11/04/myanmar-schools-air-strikes/

Junta forces have conducted nearly 200 air strikes on schools across Myanmar since the military seized power in a February 2021 coup d'état, according to a Radio Free Asia tally.

[7] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2025-08-13 · 100% match

Arakan Army says Rakhine towns unlikely to be returned to Myanmar junta

Mizzima Towns under the control of the Arakan Army (AA) in Rakhine State are unlikely to be handed back to the military junta, the group’s spokesperson U Khaing Thu Kha said at a press conference on 11 August.

[8] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2023-11-14 · 81% match

Almost 40 Myanmar Junta Positions Abandoned in Rakhine: Arakan Army

Myanmar’s junta troops and police in Rakhine State abandoned nearly 40 positions on Monday under Arakan Army (AA) attacks as part of Operation 1027.

[9] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2016-02-29 · 71% match

Arakan Army Official Acknowledges Recent Weapons Seizures

RANGOON — A spokesperson for the Arakan Army on Monday acknowledged that weapons recently seized by authorities in Rangoon and in Arakan State belonged to the armed group, but denied allegations of involvement in narcotics.

[10] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2015-05-13 · 71% match

Architects Group Plans Forum to Air Shwedagon Concerns

RANGOON — A forum to discuss the preservation of Shwedagon Pagoda will be held on the weekend, in response to concerns that nearby construction projects will affect the structural integrity of the sacred site.

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