Balanced News: Junta and Arakan Army swap prisoners in Rakhine state

Myanmar’s military and the ethnic Rakhine Arakan Army have exchanged prisoners as a seven-week ceasefire still holds. “The Arakan Army released five people: a police corporal, a sub-inspector, a lance corporal and two policemen,” the local said, adding that the junta freed two AA soldiers. The prisoner swap follows a Jan. 3 exchange near the same village when a major from each side was released along with some junta and AA soldiers, locals told RFA.