UNOCHA announced that there are almost 160,000 refugees in Rakhine in five months : Myanmar

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) announced on April 4 that nearly 160,000 civilians (157,000 people) have been displaced due to the renewed fighting between the Military Council Army and the Rakhine Army (AA) in Rakhine State since last November.

At present, Buthidaung, He also said that there are battles between the two armies in Maungdaw and An townships, and there is a great danger to the safety of civilians due to the remains of explosive weapons and landmines in the battle areas.

As summer, the hottest season, has arrived, people who have fled Rakhine state are also facing a shortage of drinking water, he said.

UNOCHA announced on March 14 that there are more than 300,000 people who have fled the fighting between the army and the Rakhine Army (AA) in Rakhine State, which started in December 2018, and who have now returned to fighting.

 

In a report released on February 25 by the Humanitarian and Development Cooperation Office (HDCO) of the Rakhine National League (ULA/AA), the number of war refugees who fled their homes due to the fighting in Paletwa Township of Rakhine State and Chin State in more than three months has increased by nearly two hundred and seventy thousand, adding to the number of sixty thousand (62,332) war refugees previously, the total number of refugees has reached three hundred and thirty thousand.

Similarly, in Kachin State, fighting between the military council forces and the joint forces of the Kachin Liberation Army (KIA) has been intense in Momok Township for the past week, and more than a thousand residents have fled the city of Sejel due to heavy weapons fire, UNOCHA said.

The statement also added that there are at least 2.8 million people who have been made homeless throughout Myanmar so far.