{"id":42532,"date":"2018-01-07T21:05:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T16:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42532"},"modified":"2022-02-17T15:39:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T10:39:37","slug":"rohingya-rebels-claim-responsibility-of-attack-on-myanmar-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42532","title":{"rendered":"Rohingya rebels claim responsibility of attack on Myanmar forces"},"content":{"rendered":"

RANGOON, Jan 07 (TNS): <\/strong>Rohingya rebels on Sunday claimed responsibility for an ambush on Myanmar security forces that left several wounded in northern Rakhine state, the first attack in weeks in a region gutted by violence.<\/p>\n

Rakhine was plunged into turmoil last August, when a series of insurgent raids prompted a military backlash so brutal the United Nations says it likely amounts to ethnic cleansing of the Muslim Rohingya minority.<\/p>\n

The army campaign sent some 650,000 Rohingya fleeing for Bangladesh, where refugees have given harrowing accounts of rape, murder and arson at the hands of security forces and vigilantes.<\/p>\n

Myanmar’s military, which tightly controls information about Rakhine, denies any abuses and insists the crackdown was a proportionate response to crush the \u201cterrorist\u201d threat.<\/p>\n

The insurgents, known as the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), have launched few attacks in recent months.<\/p>\n

But the army reported that \u201cabout ten\u201d Rohingya militants ambushed a car with hand-made mines and gunfire on Friday morning, wounding two officers and their driver.<\/p>\n

The militants claimed responsibility for the ambush in a rare post from an official Twitter account on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cArakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) hereby declares that we carried out an ambush against the Burmese terrorist army…
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at around 10am on 05 January 2018,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

The statement did not provide any more details about the attack in northern Maungdaw Township.<\/p>\n

The shadowy, poorly-armed ARSA, whose August raids left at least a dozen dead, says it is fighting for the political rights of the Rohingya, who have have faced systematic oppression in mainly Buddhist Myanmar for years.<\/p>\n

Its statement on Sunday added that \u201cRohingya people must be consulted in all decision-making that affects their humanitarian needs and political future\u201d.<\/p>\n

ARSA’s fighting capacity at this point is unknown.<\/p>\n

But a report last month from International Crisis Group said the organisation \u201cappears determined to regroup and remain relevant\u201d and may draw on desperate Rohingya refugees languishing in camps for future operations.<\/p>\n

Any uptick in violence in Rakhine will deepen concerns about plans to begin repatriating refugees later this month.<\/p>\n

Bangladesh and Myanmar signed an agreement in November allowing for repatriations from January 23.<\/p>\n

But many aid groups and diplomats have expressed doubt that fearful Rohingya will agree to return to country where where they face severe discrimination from other communities and the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RANGOON, Jan 07 (TNS): Rohingya rebels on Sunday claimed responsibility for an ambush on Myanmar security forces that left several wounded in northern Rakhine state, the first attack in weeks in a region gutted by violence. Rakhine was plunged into turmoil last August, when a series of insurgent raids prompted a military backlash so brutal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,2053],"tags":[932,2054],"class_list":["post-42532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-rangoon","tag-international","tag-rangoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102589,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42532\/revisions\/102589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}