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PAUKTAW, Rakhine State—Gutted buildings, vacant windows and blocks bombed to rubble show the price paid by the western Myanmar town of Pauktaw for victory against the junta in the country’s civil war. (confirmed by 2 sources) [1]

Ethnic Rakhine armed group the Arakan Army (AA) said it rescued another 100 civilians, many of whom had been held hostage by Myanmar military regime forces, from Pauktaw town in western Myanmar’s Rakhine State on Wednesday. [2]

Mizzima The Myanmar junta launched an airstrike on Pauktaw Township, located across the river from Sittwe in Rakhine State, dropping no fewer than 50 bombs from jet fighters in the afternoon of 20 February. [3]

AFP Myanmar’s junta detained around 50 people and left an unknown number of others feared dead in western Rakhine state after a clash with an ethnic armed group, local media reported on Friday. [4]

Twenty-three Rohingya residents were killed and 33 injured in an unprovoked bombing raid by the military regime on Monday in Minbya Township in western Myanmar’s Rakhine State, according to residents. [5]

Sources
[1] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2024-06-05 · 48% match

Battered, Empty Myanmar Town Shows Price of Victory Against Junta

PAUKTAW, Rakhine State—Gutted buildings, vacant windows and blocks bombed to rubble show the price paid by the western Myanmar town of Pauktaw for victory against the junta in the country’s civil war.

[2] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2023-11-24 · 100% match

AA Frees Another 100 Civilians Trapped, Detained by Myanmar Junta Forces in Pauktaw

Ethnic Rakhine armed group the Arakan Army (AA) said it rescued another 100 civilians, many of whom had been held hostage by Myanmar military regime forces, from Pauktaw town in western Myanmar’s Rakhine State on Wednesday.

[3] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2025-02-23 · 100% match

Myanmar junta bombs Rakhine’s Pauktaw township amid escalating clashes with Arakan Army

Mizzima The Myanmar junta launched an airstrike on Pauktaw Township, located across the river from Sittwe in Rakhine State, dropping no fewer than 50 bombs from jet fighters in the afternoon of 20 February.

[4] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2023-11-18 · 100% match

Myanmar troops detain, kill residents of Rakhine’s Pauktaw town: local media

AFP Myanmar’s junta detained around 50 people and left an unknown number of others feared dead in western Rakhine state after a clash with an ethnic armed group, local media reported on Friday.

[5] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2024-03-19 · 65% match

Over 20 Rohingya Villagers Killed as Myamar Junta Warplane Attacks Village in Rakhine

Twenty-three Rohingya residents were killed and 33 injured in an unprovoked bombing raid by the military regime on Monday in Minbya Township in western Myanmar’s Rakhine State, according to residents.

[6] MM dmediag.com · 65% match

Junta accuses AA of ‘evicting’ Pauktaw residents trapped by fighting - Development Media Group

POW families say Arakan Army provided assistance and protection during detention - Domestic flights reduced as aviation fuel shortage deepens amid global crisis - Photo News: Kyauknimaw Village remains in ruins months after deadly airstrike in Ramree

[7] MM eng.mizzima.com · 2024-06-15 · 46% match

Junta attacks on AA-controlled civilian areas increases

Mizzima The junta has increased airstrikes and artillery attacks on civilians’ homes in areas controlled by the Arakan Army (AA), according to an AA statement.

[8] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2023-11-20 · 38% match

Starvation Stalks Thousands Who Fled Rakhine Town Blockaded by Myanmar Junta

Thousands of civilians who fled Rakhine’s Pauktaw town last week are facing food shortages and must be allowed to return, the Arakan National Party (ANP) and Rakhine civil society organizations (CSOs) told junta officials on Monday.

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