Rohingya people displaced by conflict in Rakhine State were slaughtered near the Naf River in a catastrophe that junta-run media and other sources blamed on attacks by the Arakan Army—the military’s most powerful foe in the state

A statement issued on Wednesday by the Women’s Peace Network (WPN)—an advocacy organisation led by prominent Rohingya human rights activist Wai Wai Nu—claimed at least 200 Rohingya civilians, most of them women and children, had been killed in drone strikes by the Arakan Army (AA), on the Naf River the day before.