Northeastern View | Fresh influx of refugees into southern Mizoram reveals new complications in western Myanmar

On May 7, The Mizoram Post, citing sources, reported that more than 40 Myanmar nationals had entered a village in southern Mizoram’s Lawngtlai district on 30 April from Paletwa in southern Chin State. According to the report, the asylum seekers fled after the Arakan Army (AA), an ethnic armed organisation at war with the Myanmar junta, tried to forcefully conscript them into its ranks.