November-13rd to December-31st Overview
This report is a part of the 'Conflict Update Monitoring Report' from the Center for Arakan Studies (CAS), primarily focusing on conflict scenarios and civilian casualties. Its purpose is to document the state of civilian casualties resulting from armed conflicts, encompassing death, injury, and arrests of the civilian population while monitoring the trends and impacts of armed conflicts in Arakan.
November-13rd to December-13rd Overview
This report is a monthly conflict monitoring publication by the Center for Arakan Studies (CAS). Its objectives are to document timely updates on Arakan conflict situations and to describe the information and data based on conflict narratives and analysis. The data in this report are derived from both primary phone communications with ground sources and local media agencies. It presents conflict scenarios based on the actors involved, locations, types, and targets of the incidents.
November 20-26 Overview
This report is a part of the ‘weekly conflict monitoring report’ of the Center for Arakan Studies (CAS), mainly focusing on conflict scenarios and civilian causalities. Its purposes are to report the state of civilian causalities due to the armed conflicts that cover death, injury and arrest to the civilian population and monitor the trends and impacts of the armed conflicts in Arakan. The report has described the number of civilian deaths, arrest, and injury along its locations and causes. The data collected in the report are mainly based on the local media agencies, and phone communication on the ground situations and have addressed the situations from November 20 to 26, 2023.
November 13-19 Overview
The de facto ceasefire in Arakan between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army (AA) broke down just before its one-year anniversary on November 13, 2023. The previous “humanitarian ceasefire” had been introduced on November 25, 2022. However, peace negotiations between the two parties were almost non-existent due to a lack of trust and reluctance to settle a political agreement. Despite the ceasefire in Arakan, AA troops in Kachin and the northern part of Shan State continued armed clashes with the Myanmar military during these truce period. This, in turn, led the junta authority to impose stricter measures against the administration and judiciary activities of the ULA, the political wing of the AA, in Arakan.
While the junta’s forces and Arakan Army (AA) are now in an informal truce, the news of the registration of the political parties in Rakhine have become more prominent in March. As the twoarmed parties are in a lack of trust toward each other, the reinforcements of the military force and silent confrontation become the affairs of politics. For example, neither the junta has a clear date for its sham election, nor the ULA has a decisive stand on election issues
While the junta’s forces and Arakan Army (AA) are now in an informal truce, the news of the registration of the political parties in Rakhine have become more prominent in March.
In February 2023, both tensions and relaxation could be seen in politics in Rakhine State. Tensions between the Arakan Army, and junta forces happened due after the junta forces' reinforcement such as military types of equipment, patrol and...
While the junta’s forces and Arakan Army (AA) are now in an informal truce, the news of the registration of the political parties in Rakhine have become more prominent in March. As the twoarmed parties are in a lack of trust toward each other,...
While the junta’s forces and Arakan Army (AA) are now in an informal truce, the news of the registration of the political parties in Rakhine have become more prominent in March.
In February 2023, both tensions and relaxation could be seen in politics in Rakhine State. Tensions between the Arakan Army, and junta forces happened due after the junta forces' reinforcement such as military types of equipment, patrol and,...
Just 20 months after a de facto ceasefire between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army (AA), a series of armed clashes resumed in three locations in northern Rakhine,...
