"BEFORE 2015, all the areas, except from Buthidaung and Maungtaw regions where ARSA terrorist insurgents were active, of Rakhine State were peaceful and stable areas. Beginning 2015, AA group entered Rakhine State, and peace and stability in the northern parts of the state started to deteriorate. Since then the AA group has been continuously attacking police outposts stationed in the regions for enforcing the rule of law and community security, intimidating or murdering village administrators or forcing them into leaving their job, and blowing up mines to cut off communication lines, mainly targeting the administrative and security machinery and the rule of law of the Government. On 26 July 2019 at 4.15 am, AA group using a strong force attacked the Nyaungchaung area police station with heavy weapons and small arms. A police company led by a police major of the police border guards was posted at the police station to shoulder the duty of ensuring community peace, the rule of law and area security at Nyaungchaung Village in Buthidaung Township. The police station did not fall thanks to the police members who valiantly defended their station. However, the AA group indiscriminately fired shots at Muslim villages along their retreating route. Three Muslim women were wounded and one house caught fire due to the indiscriminate attack. The three wounded Muslim women were admitted at Buthidaung People’s Hospital at 11.45 am the same day, and the Tatmadaw provided necessary assistance to repair the house that caught fire. The abovementioned event is one of the most obvious instances of AA attacks. Although there are many instances of AA group’s destructive acts against the rule of law and community peace, it is found that the UN, NGOs and the media never give faithful accounts of the events. As regards the current situation of Rakhine State, Ms. Ravina Shamdasani, the spokesperson of the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights (UNHCR), released a Press Briefing Note “Myanmar Military Target Civilians in Deadly Helicopter Attack, UN Rights Office issues War Crimes Warning” on the news website of the UN on 5 April 2019.What the Note stated was that again the Myanmar Tatmadaw was committing an offense that might amount to war crimes against the civilians at the time when the international community was pressing forward with demands for accountability of the Myanmar Tatmadaw for its past crimes; and that the consequences of impunity would continue to be deadly. The Note also condemned the armed clashes between the Myanmar Tatmadaw and the AA group in Rakhine State; that civilians including native Rakhine, Chin, Mro and Daingnet people of Rakhine and Chin states and people of Muslim community lost their homes, property and cultural heritage due to the armed conflicts; that at least seven Muslims were killed and another 18 wounded when two Tatmadaw helicopter launched an aerial strike against Phonnyoleik Village- Tract in the southern part of Buthidaung Township on 3 April 2019, that not long ago many Muslims had to leave their homes in the area; that according to news of UNHCR Office, about 4,000 Muslims of the villages along Buthidaung-Yathedaung road fled their homes during the period from 25 to 31 March; that it wanted to urge the Tatmadaw and AA to hold a ceasefire; and that early sending of humanitarian aid to all the places in northern Rakhine had become a requirement. A study of the Note revealed that the Note constituted partiality, and was baseless and a compilation of wrong information and analysis; and that the Note was found to be a means of a mere propaganda for generating sympathy for the Muslims. An official news release of what really happened on 3 April was issued on 4 April. The Tatmadaw received information which said that about 150 AA members arrived at the surrounding areas of Saidin Creek in the east of Wakhotechaung Village on 3 April afternoon; and that they were going to attack, threaten and control Buthidaung Town and the surrounding villages including the Wakhotechaung Village. The Tatmadaw acted fast and struck first in crushing them. Thanks to the quick response of the Tatmadaw, the AA members could not disturb the town and villages. They could only fire heavy weapons rounds at a local battalion headquarters near Phonnyoleik Village in Buthidaung Township from afar in the evening..."