Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army News
Northern Rakhine was plunged into crisis after Rohingya militants raided police posts last month, unleashing an army crackdown that has displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians.
More than 420,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh since August 25.
The aid shipment was bound for Rakhine, where a military campaign sparked by militant attacks had forced hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims to flee the country.
The top UN human rights official has called Myanmar`s operations against the Rohingya as "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing"
A total of 59 villages and 6,842 houses were burnt down by the "extremist terrorists" with eight bridges being destroyed by planted mines.
A total of 418 schools in three townships in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state have been closed.
Officials say Rohingya insurgents are behind this and a slew of killings in the area that has been racked by violence in recent months, with security forces accused of committing atrocities against civilians.
Northern Rakhine has been gripped by crisis ever since the military launched a brutal crackdown on Rohingya Muslims in response to a militant uprising in October 2016.
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