Arakan News Agency
Last Tuesday, heavy smoke was seen rising from Myanmar’s Rohingya villages at the border with neighboring Bangladesh.
A spokesman for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Rohingya refugees were still crossing into Bangladesh, but at a slower rate.
Footage showed dense smoke poles on the Myanmar side of the border, but it was unclear what was going on.
Human rights groups say more than half of the Rohingya villages (over 400 villages) in the north of Arakan (Arakan) have been set on fire and deliberately burned.
The Myanmar border guards quickly removed debris from the broken walls of trucks and Myanmar began to repair the fences on its border with Bangladesh, which is concerned about the influx of Rohingya Muslims who fear they will not be able to return home.
New barbed wire has been installed in various areas of the Myanmar-Myanmar border where Myanmar workers and soldiers are building fences in a demilitarized zone, a camp located in a buffer zone between the two countries.
Since 25th August, the Myanmar army has committed genocide against the Rohingya Muslims in Arakan (Arakan) province, killing and injuring thousands of civilians and fleeing of more than half a million others.
The Government of Myanmar considers Rohingya Muslims illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, while the United Nations classifies them as the most persecuted religious minority in the world.
