Fortify Rights reports that since August, it and other monitoring groups had documented use of antipersonnel landmines by the Myanmar military in northern Rakhine state. Some 1,000 Rohingya from Buthidaung Township recently arrived in Maungdaw Township, northern Rakhine, and reported they were on their way to Bangladesh, a Myanmar official there told Yangon-based Eleven Media. But they declined.”Over 607,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since the Myanmar army began “clearance operations” in response to the coordinated killings of security personnel by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army on August 25. In September, Amnesty accused Myanmar of targeted use of landmines along a narrow stretch of the north-western border of Rakhine state that is a crossing point for fleeing Rohingya. They admitted the KIA also uses antipersonnel landmines.

Source: The Nation Bangkok November 01, 2017 18:11 UTC