Rohingya Human Rights Initiative - ROHRIngya

Arofa Begum from Hoyyaseri, Rakhine State survived six bullets.

She and one of her daughters is the only surviving member of her family of this Arakan Army atrocity.

Her story is in the full report -https://www.rohringya.org/roh_pdf/8345Finding%20Report%20R4R_Ashes%20of%20Rakhine_2025_Aug_final.pdf

Yesterday marked 2 years since Buthidaung burned.

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helped keep this story alive for one more day.

The Arakan Army is counting on the world to forget.

We are counting on you not to.

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Rohingya crisis - with verified testimony,
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— Rohingya Human Rights Initiative

Look at this map.

Everything in red is under the control of the Arakan
Army - the armed group that now governs 14 of 17
townships in Rakhine State, Myanmar.

The Rohingya live inside that red.

Under Arakan Army control, Rohingya communities face:

→ Movement permits required just to leave their village
→ Farmland and cattle seized
→ Men abducted and forced into unpaid military labour
→ Mosques and graveyards demolished
→ A deliberate communications blackout cutting them off
from the world

The Arakan Army rose to power promising inclusive
governance. Human Rights Watch and our own R4R 2025
Report - through separate, independent investigations -
reached the same conclusion: the Rohingya are living
under a new apartheid.

Read the full report → https://www.rohringya.org/myanmar/report-summary:-the-seige-of-arakan-looking-inside-arakan-army-s-genocide-tactics-against-rohingyas.html

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Source: R4R 2025 Report · HRW July 2025

2 years ago this week, over 35 Rohingya villages in
Buthidaung Township, Rakhine State were burned.

8 mosques destroyed. 4 madrasas burned to the ground.
The market where families bought food and medicine —
reduced to ash.

The Arakan Army surrounded the town, opened fire on
civilians, then set everything alight. The families who
fled were pushed into open rice paddy fields with no
shelter, no food, no medical care.

They have never been allowed back.

This photograph is from Buthidaung. It is 2 years old.
Nothing has been rebuilt. No one has been held
accountable.

We documented this in our R4R 2025 Report — 48 survivor
testimonies, 9 months of research.

Read it → https://www.rohringya.org/myanmar/report-summary:-the-seige-of-arakan-looking-inside-arakan-army-s-genocide-tactics-against-rohingyas.html

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