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. 10

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