FBR Report: "Rangers Document Human Rights Abuses and Help Civilians Caught in Conflict in Arakan State"

The Free Burma Rangers (FBR) is a multi-ethnic humanitarian service movement. They bring help, hope and love to people in the war zones of Burma (Myanmar) and the Middle East. Groups send teams to be trained, supplied and sent into the areas under attack to provide emergency assistance and human rights documentation. Together with other groups, the teams work to serve people in need.

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"Rangers Document Human Rights Abuses and Help Civilians Caught in Conflict in Arakan State"

26 December 2019
Arakan State, Burma

Civilians in Arakan State continue to suffer the effects of war as conflict between the Burma Army and Arakan Army continues.

Due to the conflict, the number of internally displaced people has grown from 30,000 to 70,000 in the past six months. In November, a team of five rangers conducted a mission in Rathedaung and Mrauk U townships to help civilians caught in the conflict.

The rangers documented human rights abuses inflicted by the Burma Army against the civilian population, including indiscriminate fire into villages, airstrikes, and the placement of landmines. The Burma Army has also abducted civilians, who they attempt to force into identifying and locating Arakan soldiers. This kind of arbitrary abuse has disrupted normal life and cast a pall of fear over the local population ...

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Thank you and for your prayers and support,

Dave Eubank and the Free Burma Rangers

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UNITE AND WORK FOR FREEDOM, JUSTICE, AND PEACE.
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