Indian Blockade Isolates Myanmar’s Rakhine, Pressures Arakan Army to Leave Chin State
Indian Blockade Isolates Myanmar’s Rakhine, Pressures Arakan Army to Leave Chin State
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An ethnic Chin group on India’s border has cut off Rakhine’s last major supply route and issued an ultimatum to Myanmar’s Arakan Army.
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Dig further into the story - the Indian group is an ethnic chin group aligned with one Chin guerilla army in Burma who are rivals to the Chin guerillas aligned with Arakan Army. This is the complexity of the situation in Myanmar. There are splinters within different ethnic groups, and they are all fighting each other for territory.