Junta and Arakan Army swap prisoners in Rakhine state

Myanmar’s military and the ethnic Rakhine Arakan Army have exchanged prisoners as a seven-week ceasefire still holds.The Jan. 15 prisoner swap took place near Rakhine state’s Ponnagyun township, a local witness, who did not want to be named for securit…

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Junta shelling kills 1, injures 3 in Shan state

A 33-year-old woman died and three men were injured when junta troops fired heavy artillery at an internally displaced persons’ camp in Myanmar’s eastern Shan state.A mortar shell landed on the camp near Moebye township on Monday evening, residents tol…

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