BROUK Documents Systematic Sexual Violence Against Rohingya Women and Girls by Arakan Army — Rape, Coercion, and Detention Reported

The Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) released a briefing on approximately May 14-15, 2026, documenting a pattern of escalating sexual violence against Rohingya women and girls under Arakan Army (AA) control in northern Rakhine State, as reported by Mizzima. The BROUK briefing describes incidents of rape, gang rape, arbitrary detention, and forced recruitment, characterized as 'increasingly embedded within systems of detention, coercion and control' under AA governance. Rakhine State is now approximately 90% under AA control following the AA's systematic capture of SAC positions since October 2023 and especially since late 2024. The 600,000+ Rohingya who remained in Myanmar's Rakhine State after the 2017 genocide — unable or unwilling to flee to Bangladesh — are now primarily subject to AA authority rather than SAC authority. The BROUK report presents a deeply alarming picture: Rohingya who survived the 2017 SAC genocide and chose not to flee are now facing new forms of violence under the AA, which has historically operated in ethnically Buddhist Rakhine communities and has been accused of Rohingya displacement and rights violations in the past. The AA leadership has made conciliatory public statements, but the BROUK documentation suggests ground-level conduct does not reflect those commitments. This complicates the already fraught international picture of Rohingya rights: with the SAC conducting genocide on one hand and the AA exhibiting abusive conduct toward Rohingya on the other, the population faces acute vulnerability under both major armed factions in Rakhine State. BROUK President Tun Khin has previously stated that Rohingya will not return to Rakhine without guarantees of safety and citizenship rights.