Rakhine state In the northern town of Buthidaung, almost the entire town has been burned to the ground since April 12 without any fighting, and thousands of residents have been arrested. There are more than 12 military council battalions and 10 police battalions in Buthidaung town, and as the division strategy is in place, there has been no fighting with the Arakan Army (AA) until now, but most of the residents have been fighting since January of this year. They lived in the villages near Yangon, avoiding the war, and only a few Rakhine people and Muslims remained in the city.
In that situation, houses were burned on April 12th, and the office and clinic of the Buthidaung-based Doctors Without Borders Association, which provides free medical treatment to the local poor and war refugees, was also burned on April 15th. tools to treat diseases such as pneumonia; The group announced that the vaccines were included.
There are 7 wards in Buthidaung town with more than 1,480 houses and currently more than 1 thousand houses have been burnt. The arson is done jointly by the army and the Muslims. Rohingya activists said, “Muslims who set fire to fire were taken by the army and forced to do it, so they can do whatever they want.”
In addition, those fleeing the war who avoid nearby villages and take things back to their own homes are arrested and killed, and their bodies are scattered on the streets. The Military Council reported that AA was doing all these actions. Because the military council could not win the war on the Rakhine front, so the military council create a conflict between Muslims and Rakhines. It is purposefully creating and shaping religious conflict by military council. Because this issue is easily explosive, AA needs to deal with it urgently to prevent conflict, not just war.
