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TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2025
Myanmar junta removes Rakhine rebels from terrorist list

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Reuters
11 March, 2021, 10:45 am
Last modified: 11 March, 2021, 01:16 pm

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Myanmar junta removes Rakhine rebels from terrorist list

The AA had been placed on the list of terrorist groups last year under Suu Kyi's government

Reuters
11 March, 2021, 10:45 am
Last modified: 11 March, 2021, 01:16 pm
Myanmar's military junta leader, General Min Aung Hlaing, speaks in a media broadcast in Naypyitaw, Myanmar February 8, 2021 in this still image taken from video. MRTV/Reuters TV via REUTERS
Myanmar's military junta leader, General Min Aung Hlaing, speaks in a media broadcast in Naypyitaw, Myanmar February 8, 2021 in this still image taken from video. MRTV/Reuters TV via REUTERS

Myanmar's military junta has removed Arakan Army (AA) insurgents from its list of terrorist groups because the faction has stopped attacks and in order to help establish peace across the country, state media said on Thursday.

The move comes at a time the army is struggling to contain daily protests against its February 1 coup in which elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi was overthrown.

The AA is fighting for greater autonomy in the western Rakhine state and over the past two years had become one of the most formidable forces in challenging an army that has been fighting various ethnic wars for some seven decades.

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The AA had been placed on the list of terrorist groups last year under Suu Kyi's government.

"The designation of this group as a terrorist group is terminated from March 11, 2021," The state-run Mirror Daily said, citing the end of a attacks and the junta's vision of building "nationwide eternal peace".

The AA, which agreed a temporary ceasefire in November, did not respond to a request for comment.

Some of Myanmar's more than two dozen ethnic armed groups have criticised the coup and even shown support for anti-coup protesters, but have not significantly stepped up military action or abandoned ceasefire deals.

The AA had not voiced support for the protesters and there have been very few protests in Rakhine state, which came to world attention in 2017 when some 700,000 people from the Rohingya Muslim minority fled an army crackdown.

The AA's ranks are largely drawn from the ethnic Rakhine and Buddhist majority in what was an independent kingdom until the 18th century.

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