The military council, which is losing the war in southern Rakhine, resisted the Thandae fleet with warships (8), but the Maung Shwe Lay navy base was destroyed. It was also the first time the War Council lost a navy base. The military council has started targeting the Arakan population as the war is losing, and Forced inspections and travel bans have become the norm everywhere.
People fleeing the war from Thandae City and Gu Township in Rakhine State, where the fighting took place, fled to nearby areas such as the Irrawaddy Division, and some also fled to Yangon Division. The military council has mainly blocked land and waterways that connect with the mainland, and there are also forced checks on travel permits.
If you travel from Rakhine to Yangon, you have to go through military council checkpoints and ask for money from people who are traveling. After that, if they travel from Yangon to other places, they do not pay 11/ on the political filter card. It was learned from a traveling Rakhine resident that there were threats from the police and the neighborhood.
He said, “If it’s 11/ on the road, it’s very scrutinized. It’s not the same as what others check. Phones are also checked. If you can’t find Facebook on your phone, are you doing politics if you don’t use Facebook? Are you supporting AA? After that, we also check whether there are supporting letters,” said a Rakhine man who went from Yangon to Mandalay.
With the intensification of the fighting in Rakhine, there is also a shortage of food. The military council has blockaded the Rakhine state and cut off the right to transport goods. In addition, there is a shortage of cash in Rakhine and it is known that if you transfer money from abroad, you have to pay a withdrawal fee of 25%.
In addition to shortages of goods and cash in Rakhine, it is known that there is also a shortage of medicine. It is known that in Rakhine refugee camps, there are no medicines for treatment, so there are deaths as well as skin infections. It is known from local news sources that skin diseases are common in the current Brahmin slave refugee camps.
