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Myanmar Foreign Ministry explains firing along Bangladesh border

Wednesday, 21 September 2022 | 2:41 am | 125 times

Myanmar Foreign Ministry explains firing along Bangladesh border

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) of Myanmar summoned the Bangladesh Ambassador Manjurul Karim Chowdhury on Monday to explain its stance regarding the recent gunfights and mortar shelling along the border in Naikhongchhari of Bandarban.
During the meeting, U Zaw Phyo Win, director-general of the Strategic Studies and Training Department under MoFA, put blame on the Arakan Army (AA) and the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Arsa), adding that the Myanmar army had been trying to tackle armed attacks.
The ministry said that the “terrorist groups” used the same weapons to attack on Border Guard Police (BGP) outposts on September 16-17, causing the law enforcers to retaliate. During the period, at least 12 mortal shells landed inside Bangladesh territory.
Myanmar also told the envoy that they had requested Dhaka to dismantle the dens of the two groups inside Bangladesh territory and reiterated the demand on Monday.
Earlier, the Bangladesh Foreign Ministry summoned the Myanmar ambassador in Dhaka on Sunday, for the fourth time since August and lodged a strong protest against the incidents of mortar shelling.
Ambassador Aung Kyaw Moe “acknowledged” the firing of mortar shells, but tried to deflect the blame by asserting that the insurgents in the Myanmar state were engaged in fighting.
Dhaka also handed over a protest note to the Myanmar ambassador.
Due to the fighting, the local administration in Gumdhum area of Bandarban is planning to relocate around 300 families living near the border to safer places.
On Friday night, a 17-year-old-Rohingya boy named Mohammad Iqbal was killed and five others were injured when a mortar shell fired by the Myanmar army exploded at the Zero Point Rohingya Camp close to the international border in Tombru, Bandarban.
The deceased and injured were all residents of the Zero Point Rohingya Camp, known as the camp closest to the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, on no-man’s land.
The same day, a youth named Anganthowai Tanchangya was grievously injured in a landmine explosion along the border in Naikhongchhari. Due to the injuries, one of his legs had to be amputated.


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