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A series of airstrikes carried out by Myanmar’s military last week killed at least 64 people in the village of Sin Gaung in Rakhine State’s Thandwe Township, [near the famed beach resort town of Ngapali] Myanmar Now has learned.

Myanmar’s junta plans to use residents expelled from around a dozen villages as human shields to defend the Rakhine State capital Sittwe, which the ethnic Arakan Army (AA) has surrounded and is poised to seize, local residents said.