50 Arakan State Residents Arrested in Bago Region

Fifty ethnic Arakan (Rakhine) people being smuggled from Arakan State to Yangon were arrested and detained by the junta near Pyay City in Bago Region.

People from Arakan State who want to leave the state have to employ people smugglers to get them out of the state because the junta has forbidden anyone from leaving Arakan State and blockaded all transport routes, both roads and rivers, joining Arakan State to the rest of the country. 

If people want to leave Arakan State by normal transport routes they would have to pass junta checkpoints where they risk being extorted, arrested, conscripted or all three.