Recent reports said, “about 200 Rohingya civilians being killed in the past few days while trying to flee from Myanmar’s Rakhine state to Bangladesh.”

Fighting between the military and the rebel armed group, the Arakan Army, is impacting civilians.

This is the latest of many bouts of violence against the Rohingya, Myanmar’s largely Muslim ethnic minority group, which suffered what the U.N. called “textbook ethnic cleansing” at the hands of the country’s military in 2017.

Some reports suggest that the Arakan Army has targeted boats carrying Rohingya refugees.

The Deputy Human Rights Minister of Myanmar’s National Unity Govt (NUG) said on X on Monday that thousands of people had fled from
Maungdaw during the last few days.

The UN says about 45,000 Rohingya have been forced from their homes since this fighting started in November, forcing
many across the border into Bangladesh.

The Arakan Army is an ethnic armed group based in Rakhine state and is believed to have about 30,000 troops.

The armed wing of the ted League, the army represents the State’s majority Buddhist Rakhine.

They want autonomy for the people of Arakan, which is the old name for the state.

Aljazeera.