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Aid workers and residents in two settlements in Myanmar’s Chin state reported that since the Arakan Army had taken power, food and drug shortages have gotten worse.
The ethnic rebel Arakan Army, or AA, drove dictatorship pushes out of , Paletwa and Samee settlements on Jan. 14.  ,
A native of Paletwa informed Radio Free Asia that residents of the township’s metropolitan area have been trading pigs and cattle for wheat and other customer products for the past few decades.
” People living in the urban areas ca n’t travel at all”, he said. ” They have no sugar, cooking oil or fish paste. They have a lot of travel and living challenges.
In eastern Myanmar, the AA has been fighting the military coup to assert its right to self-determination for the Buddhist ethnic Myanmar people.
People in Paletwa reported to RFA that racial Chin people in the township’s rural locations have to obtain AA approval to go from their homes to their farms. People who are trying to make a living argued that this has made things difficult.
RFA was unable to reach Khaing Thukha, an AA spokesman, for opinion on the scarcity.  ,
People of Paletwa and Samee townships have been importing standard consumer goods from India’s Mizoram position through the Kaladan River, which flows into Myanmar, for the past seven years.
However, a powerful American civil society organization called for the state’s control of the transportation of goods from Mizoram to AA-controlled areas of Chin state last month, citing the abuse of racial Chin people by the AA.
Residents in northern Rakhine state and some parts of Chin status have reported a significant shortage of basic food items as a result of that.
Since January, some people have since taken shelter in Mizoram condition, while others have moved through neighboring Rakhine condition to Myanmar’s commercial money, Yangon.
The precise number of residents in the Samee and Paletwa settlements was mysterious due to erratic phone lines and internet connection. However, relief workers claimed that only one-third of the township’s metropolitan areas are also home to residents.
