INTERNATIONAL WEAPON COMPANY IS BREACHING INTERNATIONAL LAW; MYANMAR ARMY USED LETHAL EXPLOSIVE DEVICES OF APOBS IN THE BATTLE IN AUNG THAR ZAY VILLAGE IN RAKHINE STATE, MYANMAR; ARAKAN ARMY KILLED 100 MYANMAR TROOPS IN THE TWO FRONTS IN MINBYA AND RATHEDAUNG REGIONS

https://www.arakan.news/2020/07/international-weapon-company-is.html

Arakan Army released a statement and photos of Anti-Personal Obstacle Beaching System (APOBS) and captive POW as well as weapons and ammunitions seizure on July 22. 

The statement said it killed 50 Myanmar troops including high ranking officers in Minbya township on July 20. It said AA fighters also killed 50 Myanmar soldiers in Aung Thar Zay battle in Rathedaung township. 

AA attacked 5 Myanmar military trucks on Yangon-Sittway Highway near Pha Pyo village on July 20. At least 50 soldiers were killed and 20 more troops were wounded. It captured a half dozen Myanmar troops. 

Local people have reported more than 50 Myanmar troops were killed and dozen soldiers captured in Aung Thar Zay battle in Rathedaung township where Myanmar army has been launching clearance operation since June 24. 

AA statement disclosed it killed 50 Myanmar troops in Aung Thar Zay.

Local people reported yesterday two battalion commanders were sacked and arrested in Htee Swea military base by their superiors for breaching order of high command and inability of advancing the AA position for weeks. 

Two photos were shown by Arakan Army, which is APOBS and used when Myanmar army was attacking AA base in Aung Thar Zay.

Local people have been reporting unusual explosions and heavy smoke bombs were seen near Aung Thar Zay village since July 20. 

Our news agency briefly investigated APOBS technology and its origin and found out it is USA technology and first tested by US based weapon production company, The Ensign-Bickford Company. U.S. Marine Corp and U.S. Army began using the APOBS in 2000 and 2001. 

It is unclear who has sold the APOBS to Myanmar army. But it is clear if any international weapon company selling the APOBS to Myanmar army, it is breaching international law and arms embargo rule and regulation. 

International community should thoroughly investigate the origin of weapon company that sold APOBS to Myanmar army. 

Global Arakanese community should sue the weapon company for damaging and breaching International law whereas hundreds of civilians were killed and injured and over 200,000 civilian populations are forced to displace in Rakhine State.

Any intentional weapon company that sells the lethal weapons to Myanmar army, filed genocide against Rohingya people at International Court of Justice (ICJ), is accountable for the damages and breaching the law and International arms embargo. 

Some Indian news outlets must stop the spread of misinformation and unjustifiable campaign

Some Indian news outlets must stop the spread of misinformation and unjustifiable campaign against the Arakanese People’s struggle for political freedom

Date - 22 , July , 2020

The government of Myanmar and its military have been waging their coordinated race and information war against civilians of Arakan in order to maintain the Burmese colonial rule, oppression and exploitation in Arakan. In fact, the world’s longest internet shutdown in Arakan and Chin states has been used as a tool to conceal war crimes committed by Myanmar armed forces against all the Arakan’s inhabitants, which blatantly violates its obligation to comply with the provisional measures ordered by the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Furthermore, the Burmese authorities have also been conducting a propaganda campaign with continued rally of fabricated information, misrepresentation of facts, unsubstantiated claims, and unwarranted accusations to unjustifiably shift the blame on our organization while covering up their flagrant war crimes.

The UN security council has recently adopted a resolution with respect to the appealing of 170 UN member states without Myanmar for “a global ceasefire" on 1 July 2020 in order to facilitate effective measures against the global threat of COVID-19 pandemic. Myanmar, which opposes the appealing of 170 countries for a global ceasefire, not only threatens world peace and regional stability but also negates international humanitarian laws and universal values.

In the meantime, we have come to notice the spread of misinformation by some Indian news outlets about our people’s struggle for political freedom against the Burmese invasion of Arakan. These Indian news outlets have accused our organization as having links with ARSA and receiving supports from China and insulted us on the pretext for the Kaladan Multimodal Transit Transport project. Their heinous acts have not only tarnished the reputation of India as the world’s largest democratic country but also committed serious violations of international humanitarian laws and journalistic ethics.

Allegations surfacing in the Indian media claiming that the ULA/AA has ties to the ARSA are damaging, defamatory and false. The United League of Arakan/Arakan Army (ULA/AA) was formed as a revolutionary organization comprising all inhabitants in Arakan irrespective of religion, race, ethnicity, minority or majority, with political objectives striving for the liberation of the entire oppressed population of Arakan from the yoke of Burmese fascism and imperialism, equal rights, self-determination and freedom for the multi-ethnic Arakanese population, the restoration of the loss of national sovereignty and political freedom in Arakan, and the emergence of a dignified, new Arakanese society. Therefore, we categorically denied what was an unfounded and hugely damaging allegation linking the ULA/AA to the ARSA.

Our humble suggestion is that taking into account the mutual interest and cooperation in the future some Indian news outlets must stop the spread of misinformation and unjustifiable campaign against the Arakanese People’s struggle for political freedom.

Info-Desk

Arakan Army

MYANMAR SOLDIERS SHOT AND KILLED 80 AND 60 YEARS OLD VILLAGE MEN AND WOUNDED 3 OTHER CIVILIANS TODAY IN RAKHINE STATE, MYANMAR

Location of civilian killed and injured today in Chein Khar Li village on July 13,2020

 https://www.arakan.news/2020/07/myanmar-soldiers-shot-and-killed-80-and.html

Myanmar soldiers aim their guns at a 60 years old unarmed man and then shoot and kill him in front of his wife, and an 80 years old man is found dearth with gunshot at his resident in Chein Khar Li (Rakhine) village, Rathedaung township in Rakhine State, today at 11 am. 

Three more villagers including a 13 years old teenage boy are wounded when Myanmar military is spraying guns and shelling into the houses while entering into the village this morning. 

U Maung Than Sein, 60, was shot in front of his wife Daw U Sein Nyunt when they were hiding in the bomb shelter under the house. 

Eighty years old village elder man U Tun Sein Maung is found death with gunshot-wound in his body and laying in the living room at his resident today. 

When a family with 3 including 13 years teenage boy were hiding in the bomb shelters at their resident, a shell fired from the Myanmar army is landed in the compound and wounded entire family in the morning. 

U Tun Win, 50, is hit in his leg, his wife Daw U Mying Kyi, 45, is injured in her arm, and their son Maung Nay Min Tun, 13, is wounded on his chest by the shell explosion in their resident.

“The soldiers force to open the front door first, but they cannot. Then they hit the back door by their rifles. As soon as the door is open, they see my father in law sitting on the bank of bomb shelter. The soldiers shoot him immediately in front of his wife, my mother in law. He dies on the spot under the wooden floor. My mother in law is shock and struck metal unstable,” said Kyaw Aye*, son in law of late U Maung Than Sein.  

Chein Khar Li village administer told our news that 60 soldiers with heavy and small arms are firing randomly when they are coming from Done Paik police station at 9 am this morning and heading to the north.

“They are firing small and heavy guns thought out the road. All residents from Done Paik and Chin Khar Li villages are fleeing because they are very afraid to get killed,” the administrator said. 

He said 6 elder men and women are still trapping inside the village including his mother. 

The administrator said, “I have seen all the dead and wounded villagers. I am shocked. They are innocent villagers, and we have grown up together. The old and respected elderlies are gone out of our community.” 

The administrator said Myanmar soldiers are still reaming in the village at this moment we are writing this news at 6.67 pm in Myanmar time.

Some local residents told our news agency they heard Myanmar army and Arakan Army are fighting 600 yards in the north after Chein Khar Li police station. 

They said the military might have been suffered during the clash with AA. Thus, the soldiers are turning back to the village and killing the civilians for revenge and racial hatred.

The reseidnts said they have heard several young villagers have been arrested by the military but they cannot go out and look for them since the army is still in the village and firing guns to everywhere. 

Two villages women were wounded in Aung Bla village when the Myanmar military was shooting directly into the residents in last weekend. 

Since last Saturday, three civilians have been killed and 5 villagers injured by the Myanmar army senselessly firing guns and shells into the populated town and villages, including 70 years old town resident in Ponnaygun. 

“More civilians are killed and injured by the armed forces senseless spraying guns and shelling into the residential areas. It is very sad we have lost the lives of innocent and unarmed civilians. Rakhine communities are unprotected and vulnerable. All lawmakers in Rakhine State have to stand up and complain the President about the senseless killing and injuring the civilians. Otherwise, it will never end,” said U Khin Maung Latt, a lawmaker from Rathedaung township. 

Analysts said Myanmar military is intentionally shooting and shelling into all villages on the highway from Ah Ngu Maw to Maungdaw in order to clear all villages along the way as they did to Rohingya villagers in 2017. 

Arakan Army Spokesperson Khine Thu Kha had told our news agency previously Aung San Suu Kyi government does not protect Rakhine people but supporting the military. 

He said international community’s effective actions against the military and to bring perpetrators to international justice will end the atrocities of brutal military, and once for all. 

Note. Kyaw Aye is changed from original name due to his personal security.