More than 92,500 civilians have been displaced by armed conflict in Rakhine state, where hostilities between Myanmar forces and the Arakan Army (AA) have raged for a year, according to numbers released by a non-profit organization that promotes ethnic rights, RFA reported.

Zaw Zaw Tun, secretary of the Rakhine Ethnics Congress (REC) and a relief volunteer in the region, said his organization has been surveying the number of ethnic Rakhine civilians who have fled their homes because of armed clashes.

But he added that a true estimate would be difficult to state because of a shortage of people on the ground to count the numbers of IDPs.