Standard security restrictions are affecting the daily situation of civilians, regardless of their background due to ongoing clashes between the Arakan Army, which seeks autonomy or independence for Arakan State and the Tatmadaw, said State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

After village administrator of Phone Thar Wa village tract in Minbya Township was shot and killed by a Tatmadaw column on 11 December night, other village administrators are concerned for their safety and want to resign.

The body of Kyaukmaw village administrator U Kyaw Aye Maung, who was abducted by the Tatmadaw, was found at the bottom of Mt. Minbu, west of Thalu Chaung village, in the afternoon on 14 December at about 4 p.m., according to family members.

“The Arakan Army (AA) seeks autonomy or independence for Arakan State, as it was called—finding inspiration in the memory of the historic Kingdom of Arakan,” the State Counsellor said on 11 December.

The Tatmadaw accuses the detained villager of having connection with Arakan Army (AA), but local residents say that he is a person with a mental illness.

Artillery shells launched by a Tatmadaw troop positioned at a pagoda located 0.8 kilometers east of the village landed on Sinthaybyin Muslim village in Buthidaung Township on the morning of 14 December.

Families of victims made a complaint to the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission to investigate the death of a village administrator and a female villager from Satetara village, Minbya township in Arakan State.

Eleven more Muslims have returned of their own accord to Maungdaw Township, Arakan State from Bangladesh on 11 December, according to a source from the Taungpyo Letway Reception Center.

Mine blast in Kyaukphyu, where China’s projects are existing, during ongoing fighting between the Tatmadaw and the AA is an unusual.

The Arakan Army (AA) raided a police station in Yoetayoke village of Ponnagyun Township in Arakan State at about 6 p.m. on 11 December, Khaing Thu Kha, spokesperson of the AA, told the DMG.

A 42-year old village administrator in Minbya Township, Arakan State, died of injuries after he was struck with a rifle butt by some members of a military troop and a mother was killed by bullet wound on the night of 11 December, family members told the DMG.

The Tatmadaw and the Arakan Army (AA) accuse each other for a vessel was hit by artillery shells in Kaladan River near Hnone Bu village in Paletwa township of Chin State, killing two people and injuring six others.

An artillery shell landed in Kalama Taung Village in Minbya Township at about 9 a.m. on 11 December, 10 villagers were injured and two out of the 10 received serious injuries, locals said.

The Immigration and National Registration Department has been issuing household member lists and birth certificates for Muslims from Thet Kel Pyin IDP camp in Arakan State’s Sittwe city as of 9 December.

Local residents in Arakan State feel they face a lack of human rights because of arrests of locals with alleged ties to the Arakan Army (AA), young people said in an event commemorating the 71st International Human Rights Day in Sittwe on 10 December.

Since a military troop had been stationed at the basic primary school in Kyauktaw town’s Ywama ward in Arakan State for a week, most students do not attend school because they’re worried about possible fighting and exchanges of gunfire.

The war in the region claimed four civilians’ lives and 16 people received injuries within a week from 1 to 7 December this year. Five local residents were arrested and fierce clashes broke out in five townships in Arakan State. The information of clashes, arrest and casualty are mainly compiled.

Students and teachers have lost their chance to receive an education because they have to flee to safety as the Tatmadaw and the Arakan Army (AA) continue fighting near villages.

Local people from Kin Pin Lel Nar Village, Kyaukphyu Township in Arakan State said they suspect a fish cracker factory near the village is believed to run on coal and demanded local authorities to shut down the plant.