Buthidaung and Maungdaw. The community in these two towns, along with their surrounding
villages, faced severe atrocities from April 2024 onwards, including killings, the burning of
property, and sexual violence, such as gang rape, abduction and forced conscription of Rohingya
youths to used them as human sheild in the fight with Military Junta and force labor. Rohingya
communities are often accused of having association with Military and Rohingya resistant groups
and brutally murder them.
In 2024, the Rohingya experienced yet another wave of brutality at the hands of AA. Systematic
attacks on villages in Buthidaung and Maungdaw Townships, mass killings, arson, forced
displacement, property takeover and the destruction of religious and cultural sites once again
devastated the community. Testimonies collected from survivors recount how entire towns were
encircled, bombarded, and burned, with mosques, schools, and hospitals set on fire. Families
were torn apart, livelihoods destroyed, and survivors rendered homeless and stateless once more.
This report draws upon detailed survivor testimonies from the 2024 atrocities, situating them
within the broader historical context of persecution of the Rohingya. It illustrates how decades of
legal disenfranchisement, state-led hate propaganda, and military repression have converged into
a sustained and evolving genocidal campaign, one aimed at eliminating the Rohingya from their
ancestral homeland, erasing their historical presence, and denying them a future. Focusing on the
most recent wave of violence, the report chronicles specific experiences of Rohingya survivors
from Rakhine State in 2024. These accounts reveal the objectives of the AA and place their
actions within a broader agenda of ethno-religious cleansing. The testimonies expose how the
AA’s brutal campaign is driven by both ideological motives, seeking to eradicate Muslim identity,
and material ambitions, including territorial control and the exploitation of strategic and
economic resources. Through targeted violence in Maungdaw Buthidaung and many other
townships, the AA seeks to displace the Rohingya population and reconfigure the region into a
Buddhist-majority stronghold under its own dominance.
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