ULA/AA was evacuating hundreds of civilians from Maungdaw who had been used as human shields
The Arakan Army (ULA/AA) has released a video file of the evacuation of about 500 civilians from Ka Nyin Tan Village of Ward-No (8) in Maungdaw, Arakan State, to safety on August 8th, those civilians were trapped as human shields by the terrorist military junta and some of their armed Muslim militants.
ULA/AA has been continuously releasing video files that in the middle of August 8th, about 300 Muslim elders, men, women, and children were being trapped and held as human shields in Bo Mu (Muslim) Village in Maungdaw Township, and on August 7th, many civilians who were held as human shields in Latha village had to be rescued by ULA/AA.
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