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Indian authorities violently cracked down on Myanmar hunger strikers, injuring four of them, at a detention centre in Imphal Town, in India’s Manipur State, on 17 June.

99 Myanmar nationals are being held at the centre. They were convicted of immigration offences but, though all of them have completed their sentences and paid any fines imposed on them, they are still being held. Some are also worried that they will be handed back to the Myanmar junta.

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.