ALP combating with Burmese Army; two Burmese soldiers killed

Bandarban, C.H.T – Wednesday, Jan 15, 2006: About one thousand soldiers of the Burmese Army Light Infantry Battalions (LIB) No- 233rd, 234th from Buthidaung township and LIB No- 536th, 537th and 538 from Rathidaung township under Sittwe Regional Military Tactical Command led by commander Lt. Colonel Than Tun Aung has been deployed along the coastal areas facing to Bay of Bangal of Rathidaung and Maung Daw township that the local sources said.

Here, LIB No- 535th based in Rathidaung township was not participating in this regard because this battalion already reached to the utmost front line of northern Buthidaung township demarcated with southern part of Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh. One of the companies of LIB No- 535th was attacked by Arakan Liberation Party-ALP on last week of Jan, 2006 after this Burmese army company intruded beyond demarcation line of the two countries. Two Burmese soldiers were killed in this combating with ALP but no injured from ALP side-that the local sources of Bandarban District, Chittagong Hill Tracts, said.
We are taking an inquiry concerning this combating news of utmost remote areas that ALP member concerned said.
As regard the deployment of Burmese army battalions along the border with Bangladesh, the local people of both sides of two countries are giving different opinions of them.


Dated: February 17, 2006


By Arakan National Council – ANC Human Rights Documentation Committee (present Dhaka)



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