Civilians in firing line as conflict returns to Myanmar’s Rakhine

The military and the AA agreed a truce before November 2020 elections — and before the February, 2021 coup — but the military has become increasingly wary about the group's growing power [File: Nyunt Win/EPA]

On the evening of September 25, in Nagara village in western Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine State, Bu Wine and her family went to bed early.

But a couple of hours later, she was awake.