Myanmar has officially designated an armed ethnic rebel group known as the Arakan Army a terrorist organization.
The declaration, published in official notices in Tuesday's newspapers, came after more than a year of bitter fighting between government forces and the guerrilla group, which represents the Buddhist Rakhine inhabitants of Rakhine state in western Myanmar.
It is one of more than a dozen ethnic minorities in Myanmar seeking autonomy.
The notice says the Arakan Army and an affiliated organization, the United League of Arakan, "have caused serious losses of public security, lives and property, important infrastructures of the public and private sector, state-owned buildings, vehicles, equipment and materials."