The group said it occupied a military base it had besieged on a strategic hill in Bago a day after declaring its ceasefire, but honored its terms by failing to attack the army's retreating soldiers.
Rescue efforts from Myanmar's deadly quake wind down as death toll exceeds 3,500
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Members of the state’s Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority, targets of deadly army-directed violence in 2017, appear to have been the main victims of fighting in the town of Buthidaung, where the Arakan Army claims to have chased out forces of the military government.
As ethnic armed group claims to have captured a town in western Myanmar, Muslim Rohingyas flee again
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