New conflict rises in Rakhine

Blissfully unaware: Ah Hla’s six-month-old son sleeping in her lap as she describes her husband’s sudden arrest and death in Mrauk U. — Reuters

MRAUK-U: When 35-year-old Ah Hla showed up to a police station in western Myanmar in late April hoping to see her husband among the prisoners, she didn’t know whether he was alive or dead.

Several dozen men, including her fisherman husband, had been detained weeks earlier when the military raided their village in central Rakhine state’s Mrauk-U township and accused them of belonging to a rebel army, residents said.