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ALP Spokesman: Party Members Threatened With Arrest

By MOE MYINT / THE IRRAWADDY| Thursday, April 28, 2016   Soldiers from the Arakan Liberation Army are pictured in Arakan State. (Photo: ALP Community / Facebook) RANGOON — Central executive committee members of the Arakan Liberation Party (ALP), the political wing of the Arakan Liberation Army, were threatened with arrest by Col. Htein Lin, the security and border affairs minister of Arakan State, ALP spokesman Khine Myo Tun said on Thursday. On Wednesday, Htein Lin summoned ALP representatives for questioning about a statement from the party on April 24. The statement lodged several allegations against the Burma Army, including accusations of the military having committing war crimes, breaking the Geneva Convention and other aspects of international law, removing locals from their land, forced labor and the capturing and sometimes killing of villagers in conflict zones. It claims members of the ALP could act as witnesses to the alleged abuses. Khine Myo Tun told The Irraw

Karen Troops Fight Alongside Arakan Army

By LAWI WENG / THE IRRAWADDY| Thursday, April 28, 2016  Karen freedom fighters travel to fight alongside the Arakan Army. (Photo: Saw San Aung/Facebook) After days of traveling from Karen State, Col. Saw San Aung and dozens of troops arrived in Arakan State last week to help the Arakan Army (AA) fight the Burma Army. The troops are Karen freedom fighters—a Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA) splinter group, and other ethnic armed forces from groups that the Colonel did not specify. He described the fighters as a federal army, formed discreetly by ethnic leaders. Making pillows of stones and singing to his troops, Col. Saw San Aung attempted to keep morale high for the soldiers he calls “freedom fighters” during the rough trip to western Burma’s Arakan State. “At times, we did not have food and could not sleep, but this is the life of a rebel,” he said. The trip was not smooth, as the troops trekked through the jungle from Taungoo to Pegu Yoma to Arakan Yoma, occasio

United League of Arakan (ULA) : Released Statement

United League of Arakan (ULA) Released Statement No-5/2016 20 April 2016 Persecution against ethnic minorities committed by the Burmese military government and its armed forces have continued for more than a half century until the present. The military abuse in remote ethnic areas that remain virtually unknown because of severe restrictions imposed by the Burmese Army. The persecutions have been systematic and widespread, and the forms include extra-judicial killings, torture, and other forms of violence, arbitrary arrests, and detentions. Burmese Army has subjected civilians to executions, torture, human-shields and rape of ethnic women during the conflicts. The widespread violence, part of a vicious counterinsurgency campaign that amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity, has contributed to a looming humanitarian crisis, threatening to democracy roadmap and peace in Burma. Since the outbreak of war in February 2015 in the Rakhine state, it has reported to have