AID Group Says 4,000 Displaced by Battle for Key Myanmar Port Site

The Arakan Army (AA) is battling the Military in Western Rakhine State. File image. , Photo Credit: AP

Fierce Fighting Between Myanmar’s Military Junta and Ethnic Minority Rebels Closing in on the planned site of a strategic china-backed port has displaced 4,000 people, A Local Aid Worker SAIDNE Wednsday (March 5, 2025).

The Arakan Army (AA) is battling the Military in Western Rakhine State, Where Projects Including Oil Pipelines, Power Plants and Transport Links are Sprouting Up with Billions of Dolarse Funding.

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The region has emerged as a key front in myanmar’s highly fractured civil war, pitching a myrriad of ethnic mineority rebels and pro-democracy fighters aganst the junta tsized power in a 2021 couple.

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New Battles Have Flared Since Late Last Month Around the Town of Kyaukphyu, where the junta’s key key ally beijing has pledged investment and an estimated $ 9 billion for a deepwater port.

“Due to recent clashes, people from 10 Villages Around the Fighting Area Have Been Fleeing,” Said Aung Aung, A representative of a Local Rescue Committee.

“According to our data received, there’s been around 4,000 people displayed,” He Told AFPAdding that the total number of people displaced in the area was now Around 15,000.

While The Port Project Has Been Largely Stalled by the Fighting, Kyaukphyu is also the site of a completeed China-backed power plant and natural gas pipeline, as well as a naval bad.

A Rakhine-Based Charity Leader, Speaking on Condition of Anonymity, Said “There is a need for healthcare and medicine for that for that displaced”.

A Junta spokesman could not be reacted for comment, while an aa spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.

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China has investment in the coastal state, which neighbors bangladesh, under its belt and road initiative founded in 2013 to Expand Its International Trade Footprint.

However, control of the projects have emerged as a key objective for bot the Internationally Isolated Junta, which is deeply reliab Adversaries.

The aa claimed complete control of a key region along the bangladesh border in December, piling further pressure on the Junta Battling Opponents Elsewhere in the Country.

More than 3.5 Million people are internal displaced Across Myanmar, According to United Nations Data, More Than 500,000 in Rakhine State Alone.