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Around 10,000 villagers in two townships have abandoned their homes as junta troops continued scorched earth operations in Myanmar's northern Sagaing region, locals told RFA. A column of around 100 troops started burning houses in Yinmarbin township on Monday and attacked villages in nearby Salingyi...
More than 7,000 civilians in Sagaing Region were forced to flee their homes on Monday and Tuesday, after Myanmar military soldiers raided and torched villages along the border of Depayin and Ye-U townships. Around 200 military regime troops raided five villages in Ye-U Township on Monday, displacing...
A Myanmar military airstrike destroyed the home of a Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA) leader on Saturday morning, located in the Payathonzu area near Karen State’s border with Thailand. Multiple buildings in the compound—which is situated in Kyainseikgyi Township in the territory of the Karen...
Resistance attacks on regime targets in Myanmar’s southern, eastern and central regions are likely to increase in the coming months as the country’s oldest rebel group has vowed to step up operations while saying fighting is only one way to end military rule. “We need to speed up in both military an...
Seven civilians were killed and dozens injured in Katha Township, upper Sagaing Region on Wednesday when two Myanmar military jets bombed a large village of 1,800 households. The junta bombed civilian targets in Moetar village after its troops suffered heavy losses in a clash with resistance forces ...
An official from a civil society group in Hpa-An city told KIC that “ we are still debating whether or not to keep their association, as we may be disbanded and suffer reprisals, if we failed to comply.” He said, “ Our team is a simple funeral team. Our donors are in neighborhoods and cities. Now, w...
A family of eight, including three children, who were supporters of Myanmar’s ousted National League for Democracy (NLD), were found knifed to death at their home in Kantbalu Township, Sagaing Region, on Saturday. The Ngar Myaung village murders occurred in a village where most residents are the sup...
Eight members of a family, including three children, were found dead with knife wounds in their home in Kanbalu Township, Sagaing Region on Saturday morning. A group of men reportedly arrived at the house in Ngar Myaung village, located on the western shore of the Ayeyarwady River, and murdered the ...
Five people, including a child and two pastors, were killed when junta warplanes bombed a village church in Mutraw district, Karen State on Thursday, according to the Karen National Union (KNU) and residents. Two regime jet fighters attacked Lay Wah village, which is controlled by the KNU, at around...
Myanmar’s junta continues to arrest doctors and other medically-trained workers for participating in a civil disobedience movement to resist the military junta’s 2021 coup, healthcare workers say.In the months following the February 2021 coup, about 60,000 medical workers, including doctors, nurses,...
Myanmar junta troops have burned 12 villages in the west of Depayin Township, Sagaing Region, this month and burned alive two men in their 80s, according to a rescue team. On Monday, junta troops torched 72 homes in Sat Pyar Kyin village and U Phoe Tar, 84, died because he could not escape. Troops a...
Around 150 houses were looted and burned by Myanmar junta forces in Myaung Township, Sagaing Region, on Monday, according to resistance forces. On Saturday, around 100 troops and Pyu Saw Htee militia allies arrived by motorboat and occupied Pan Nyo village at the confluence of the Ayeyarwady and Chi...
One political prisoner was killed and around 70 were injured, nine severely, when junta security forces opened fire on a protest by inmates at Pathein Prison in Ayeyarwady Region on Friday. The slain victim was identified as Ko Wai Yan Phyo, 35, a resident of Chaungtha Beach in Pathein. He was detai...
More than 200 political prisoners were among the 7,012 inmates freed in this week’s Independence Day amnesty, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP). The junta also detained at least 22 people on political charges on Wednesday, including prisoners who had just been re...
Eight members of a local resistance team and a seven-year-old girl were killed by the junta’s forces in separate attacks in Magway Region’s Seikphyu Township this week, according to local sources. A Myanmar military unit of some 30 troops ambushed 21 members of the Seikphyu Bamati Defence Team and a...
Myanmar’s military rulers ordered the release of 7,012 inmates, including some political prisoners, in an Independence Day amnesty Wednesday. Detainees held in prisons and police stations across the country had their sentences reduced in accordance with Section 401 of the Penal Code, according to ju...
The Fire Service Department under the Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration of the National Unity Government (NUG) released a statement on 1 January stating that over 41,000 houses were torched and destroyed by the Military Council during the last year, 2022. In the statement, Military Council so...
A 61-year-old man died Thursday when a junta shell landed on a village in Kayin State’s Kawkareik township, locals told RFA. Residents said more than 1,000 people have fled Kawt Nwe village since an artillery bombardment started on Dec. 20, killing a woman on Tuesday and a man the following day.
More than 6,000 residents from nine villages near a Chinese-operated copper mine in northwestern Myanmar’s Sagaing region fled their homes as troops loyal to the ruling military junta entered their communities on Wednesday, locals said. The exodus occurred the same day as the United Nations Security...
Junta troops killed four civilians in an arson attack on six villages in Sagaing’s Indaw Township on the border with Kachin State on Sunday, according to residents and resistance groups. The victims were named as Ko Tun Naing Win from Nant Thae village, Ko Nay Win from Kun Chaung, Ko Kyaw Lwin from ...
After suffering heavy casualties in recent clashes with the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) in northern Shan State, the Myanmar regime claims it was targeting People’s Defense Forces (PDFs), not the TNLA. Clashes between regime troops and the TNLA broke out in Namhsan on December 7. The TNLA ...
Junta troops killed at least six people and torched hundreds of houses during a three-day rampage in Sagaing Region’s Kawlin Township that began on Sunday, according to local sources. Around 100 soldiers based in the village of Koe Htaung Boe in Kanbalu Township carried out a series of raids targeti...
Regime forces tortured and killed five people, including two guerrilla fighters, in Sagaing Region’s Ayadaw Township late last week, according to a local resistance source. Ko Swe, a spokesperson for the township’s anti-junta People’s Administration Team, said that all five victims were captured by ...
Junta chief Min Aung Hlaing visited the Kachin State capital Myitkyina on Tuesday amid high tensions with the Kachin Independence Army (KIA). Accompanying Min Aung Hlaing was Air Force chief General Tun Aung, who was responsible for an October air attack on a concert marking the founding of the Kach...
In its continuous spree of war crimes and crimes against humanity, Myanmar’s military regime burned down 38,383 houses in 12 states and regions from May 2021 till November this year, according to independent research group Data For Myanmar (DFM). Sagaing and Magwe regions, the strongholds of armed r...
Myanmar’s junta forces torched at least 26 villages in Sagaing Region on Human Right Day despite no reports of fighting with resistance groups. Villages were burned in Depayin, Tigyaing, Kawlin, Budalin and Ye-U townships were burned down on Saturday.
Junta troops stormed 20 villages in Tigyaing township over three days this week, burning down over 400 houses as their arson campaign continued in Myanmar’s Sagaing region. Local residents told RFA around 300 troops took part in the campaign, prompting more than 10,000 people to abandon their homes ...
Junta forces and members of the pro-military Pyu Saw Htee militia group have burned down nearly 150 civilian houses in Eai Dine Village of Kyun Hla Township in Sagaing Region. On Tuesday afternoon, around 200 soldiers from the military’s Light Infantry Battalion 361 and Pyu Saw Htee members fired ar...
Parents of seven Dagon University students recently handed death sentences by the junta said that over the past week they had submitted multiple appeals and pleas for leniency to every level of the junta’s court system on behalf of the young men, but had received no response.
Myanmar’s civilian National Unity Government (NUG) said Monday it would severely punish any members of the People’s Defense Forces (PDFs) found guilty of executing a civilian woman in Tamu Township, Sagaing Region. The NUG’s move came after a video clip went viral on social media in which a woman ac...
Myanmar’s military regime suffered at least 10 fatalities in fighting earlier this week with the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) in Shan State, the ethnic armed organization (EAO) told The Irrawaddy. The Myanmar military and the MNDAA have been clashing since November 27 to the nor...
Myanmar’s junta on Wednesday handed down death sentences to seven Dagon University students in Yangon who took part in anti-regime protests. Dagon University Students’ Union confirmed that Ko Khant Zin Win, Ko Thura Maung Maung, Ko Zaw Lin Naing, Ko Thiha Htet Zaw, Ko Hein Htet, Ko Thet Paing Oo and...
The Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) was forced to withdraw from the Thay Baw Boe base in Karen State’s Myawaddy Township this week after a series of aerial attacks by the Myanmar army. In May, Karen forces seized the post from the military, located near the Thaung Yin River along the Thai-Myan...
A junta court in Myanmar’s northern Sagaing region has sentenced nine People’s Defense Force (PDF) medics to 12 years each in prison. The women were charged under the military regime’s Counter-Terrorism Law and sentenced at Kale Prison Court in October according to sources close to the prison and PD...
At least 308 women and girls have been killed by junta forces since the coup in February last year, according to the National Unity Consultative Council (NUCC), a political coalition of anti-regime bodies. Twelve of those victims, including girls, were raped before being killed, said an NUCC stateme...
Regime forces killed a fifth-grade student and a member of a People’s Defence Team (PDT) in Sagaing Region’s Khin-U Township on Wednesday, according to local sources. The student, 14-year-old Ye Min Naung, was shot dead at a farm near the village of Kan Tharyar as he attempted to flee a column of ar...
Myanmar’s military carried out a series of airstrikes and artillery attacks on Wednesday amid clashes with anti-junta forces in several neighbouring Sagaing Region townships. According to a local resistance group based in Khin-U Township, three junta columns began raiding villages there and in the ...
Some 200 junta soldiers set fire to nearly the entire village of Kha War Thei in southern Kyunhla Township on Monday, according to local sources. The troops arrived at the site, located 20 miles south of Kyunhla town in Sagaing Region, at around 10am after having previously been stationed at the Tha...
Junta troops have killed at least 15 civilians and torched several hundred houses during raids on villages in Sagaing and Wetlet townships, Sagaing Region, over the past week, according to residents. Ten villages, including Htangyi in Wetlet and nine others in Sagaing near Min Wun Hill and along the...
The Myanmar junta’s brutal arson campaign continues in the country’s northern Sagaing region, with at least 385 houses torched in Khin-U township since the end of last week. Two military columns raided seven villages between Friday and Sunday morning. On Monday they turned their attention to Saw Gyi...
Chairman of State Administration Council (SAC) and Prime Minister Senior-General Min Aung Hlaing in his message to mark the 102nd National Victory Day said that the government invited and held talks with respective representatives to ease the armed conflicts and restore genuine peace and discussions...
At least 16 civilians including three children were killed and more than two dozen injured in the past two days when Myanmar junta troops launched artillery strikes against civilian targets including a kindergarten in Rakhine and Kayah states. Without any provocation, the military base in Maungdaw T...
Three people were killed and eight, including a Chinese citizen, injured when the Myanmar junta’s military launched an air strike on a mining facility in Thapyu Village in Karen State’s Kyar Inn Seik Gyi district on Wednesday morning, according to the Karen National Union (KNU) and local residents.
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Myanmar junta troops have burned down a Wetlet Township village in Sagaing Region and killed four residents, according to resistance groups. Troops, police and militia allies began raiding villages in southern Wetlet on Saturday. They clashed with a resistance group in Paukkan village and then burne...
Karen rebels claim to have destroyed four Myanmar junta outposts on Saturday in Mon State and Bago Region. On Saturday morning the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) and allied resistance groups raided three junta outposts in Thanseik, Bawkahtar and Ton Tan in Nyaung Laypin district of Bago Regio...
Myanmar junta troops have allegedly killed 11 villagers in Ponnagyun Township, Rakhine State, over two days this week, according to villagers. Troops raided Sin Ein Gyi village, which is about 5km west of Ponnagyun town, on Thursday evening and opened fire. They killed a woman in her 90s.
Myanmar junta troops burned down at least 200 houses at a Myingyan Township village in Mandalay Region on November 8 in which at least two people died, according to an activist group. U Zaw Myo Naing, 33, a father of four, was among around 5,000 Pyar Ywar villagers who had earlier fled into nearby f...
Junta troops killed at least 18 civilians and People’s Defense Force (PDF) members in Sagaing Region’s Monywa Township during their latest raid in the area, said locals. Eighteen bodies were found after junta soldiers raided Htan Lay Pin Village on Sunday. Eight of those killed were resistance fight...
Myanmar’s ousted National League for Democracy (NLD) has urged leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and their global peers to push for the release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the country’s other political prisoners, as Myanmar’s crisis can only be resolved through meetings b...
The deaths come on the 5th day of fierce fighting around Myanmar’s Monywa township. Junta troops killed four villagers and four members of a local People’s Defense Force (PDF), in a five-day onslaught, during which the junta set fire to villages in the south of Sagaing region’s Monywa township forci...
A 13-year-old in Kantbalu Township, Sagaing Region, was killed and three other civilians injured on Thursday by Myanmar junta shelling, according to the Kyunhla Activists Group. Junta troops based in Koetaungbo village shelled nearby villages yesterday afternoon and shells hit two houses in Zee Ka N...
The Myanmar junta’s campaign of deadly airstrikes in resistance strongholds has sharply escalated in recent weeks, with daily attacks inflicting heavy casualties on resistance forces, ethnic allies and civilians. In exclusive interviews with The Irrawaddy, Dr. Miemie Winn Byrd, a Burmese-American pr...
Nationalist monks and junta-affiliated Pyu Saw Htee militias have been forcing villagers in Sagaing Region’s Kantbalu Township to undergo military training, according to locals. Led by influential monk U Wasawa from the ultranationalist Association for Protection of Race and Religion, known locally ...
Hundreds of villagers flee their homes around Momauk town as junta shells detonate near a hospital and in a church compound, locals say. Battles have been ongoing between the Myanmar military and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in Kachin State’s Momauk Township for several days, according to loca...
The anti-junta guerrilla group Inya Urban Force (IUF), which assassinated a pro-regime former general in Yangon last month, has vowed to fight on despite seeing 10 of its members arrested. The military regime announced it had detained the IUF personnel in the first week of October after the group as...
Days after the junta’s bombing of a Kachin State music festival that killed dozens of people and wounded at least 100 more, the Myanmar army continues to block roads connecting the targeted area to the town of Hpakant as well as access to medical treatment for the injured victims, according to local...
The number of people killed by a junta airstrike on a music concert in ANang Pa village, Hpakant Township rose to 75 as of Thursday, with more in danger of succumbing to their injuries as regime troops block medical treatment, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) said. Three junta jet-fighters bombed ...
KACHIN—The Burma Army has searched the homes of Kachin Independence Army (KIA) officers and others killed during the airstrikes on Hpakant Township. These raids took place on Oct. 25, the day after the airstrike that killed over 80 people attending a KIA ceremony. “They [Burma Army] went around the ...
Airstrikes by Myanmar's military killed as many as 80 people, including singers and musicians, attending an anniversary celebration of the Kachin ethnic minority's main political organization, members of the group and a rescue worker said Monday. The reported attack comes three days before Southeast...
Fierce fighting broke out between junta troops and combined forces of Karen revolutionary troops in Karen State’s Kawkareik Township on Friday. Locals have reported aerial bombing by the regime. One civilian was killed and two others injured as mortar shells fired by the Myanmar military’s Infantry ...
Myanmar’s civilian National Unity Government (NUG) and revolutionary forces have condemned the bombing of Insein prison in Yangon, which left eight people dead on Wednesday morning. After the two explosions, the security forces began shootings. Those killed include the mother of a jailed student act...
At least eight people were killed in two explosions and a subsequent shooting at Yangon’s Insein Prison on Wednesday morning. Those killed include the mother of a jailed prominent student activist, relatives of at least two other political detainees, and three prison staff. According to locals, two ...
Three people including a schoolteacher were killed and at least 13 injured by junta artillery strikes in Minbya Township, Rakhine State on Monday, according to residents. Light Infantry Battalion Nos. 380, 379 and 541 based in Minbya town shelled villages after junta troops were hit by a land mine a...
Junta raids on villages in Sagaing region’s Chaung-U township have left four people dead. Nearly 500 homes were torched in the attacks, according to locals. On Saturday morning, around 100 junta troops fired heavy artillery before entering Ngar Lone Tin village. An eyewitness said that nearly 300 ho...
More than 200,000 children have been displaced by fighting in Myanmar’s war-torn states of Kayin, Kayah and Rakhine since the military took control of the country in a February 2021 coup, according to data compiled by rights groups, NGOs, and anti-junta forces. Beyond the psychological trauma they e...
A Myanmar military regime-controlled court on Wednesday sentenced the country’s deposed democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to another three years’ imprisonment on two more corruption charges, handing her two three-year terms to be served concurrently. The latest three-year term means Daw Aung San...
More than two dozen recent graduates of a training program for the pro-junta Pyu Saw Htee militia surrendered to anti-regime forces in Magway Region last week, according to resistance sources.A battalion commander from the Myaing People’s Defence Force (PDF) told Myanmar Now that 27 residents of the...
The rebel Arakan Army fighting Myanmar’s military junta on Monday captured an outpost on the country's border with Bangladesh, killing 30 soldiers and capturing three more, sources told Radio Free Asia. The capture of Lake Ya Border Patrol Base in Maungdaw township in northwestern Rakhine state is t...
Artillery and landmine blasts have killed at least 51 civilians and severely injured 122 others, including more than 20 children, over the past two months in seven Myanmar states and regions where the military is fighting armed opposition groups, according to reporting by RFA Burmese. The incidents ...
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA Myanmar) announced on October 5 that 17,400 people have fled their homes due to the fighting between the Tatmadaw and the Arakan Army (AA) in Rakhine State and southern Chin State. The statement stated that ongoing conflict...
At least 11 Mandalay National League for Democracy (NLD) members and supporters have allegedly been killed within two days by the pro-regime terror group, Thwe Thout. Observers believe junta personnel carried out the killings. The group on April 21 launched “Operation Red” against the party’s member...
An attack on a training camp for the junta-backed Pyu Saw Htee militia left 17 people dead in Magway Region’s Pauk Township on Monday, according to resistance sources. The incident occurred in Zee Pyar, a village about 20km north of the town of Pauk, where around 60 junta soldiers were training some...
The Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) Brigade 6, the armed wing of the Karen National Union (KNU), has seized more Myanmar junta outposts in southern Karen State. Resistance forces have seized at least seven junta bases since May, including strategic camps like Thay Baw Boe and Maw Khee.
A witness recounts the day the military killed 7 children in an aerial attack on a Sagaing school. On Sept. 16, 2022, at least seven minors were killed when military aircraft fired on a village school in Sagaing region in what appeared to be the deadliest attack on children in Myanmar since last yea...
Around 20 civilians, including children, are still detained by Myanmar’s junta following the attack on the Depayin Township school in Sagaing Region. At least 12 people, including seven children, were killed in the helicopter and ground assault on the school in the Let Yet Kone village monastery on ...
GENEVA—UN investigators said Tuesday that the Myanmar junta commanders who ordered an attack this month on a school that left a dozen children dead could be liable for war crimes. The investigators pointed to multiple reports indicating that the school, located in the compound of a monastery, came u...
Nearly 700 people have been forced to leave their homes after junta troops set fire to a village in Pauk Township, in Myanmar’s northeastern Magway region. A Kyet Su Aint resident, who did not want to be named for security reasons, said that soldiers raided the village of Kyet Su Aint on Monday nigh...
The Ministry of Human Rights of Myanmar’s parallel National Unity Government (NUG) said the Depayin school massacre provided vivid evidence that the junta is openly and continuously contravening international humanitarian law and committing war crimes. At least 12 people including seven children hav...
A helicopter pilot who defected from the Myanmar military has told how junta pilots attacked a village school in Sagaing Region last week, killing 11 children. “They [the pilots] dropped bombs despite seeing kids running on the ground,” said the defector. Some 11 children, including some as young as...
More incidents of violence against civilians by government forces were reported in Myanmar than anywhere else in the world during the first six months of 2022, according to a U.S.-based group that compiles data on conflict in developing nations. The Armed Conflicts Location and Event Data Project (A...
Two children seriously injured in the Myanmar regime’s attacks on a Sagaing Region school and detained by soldiers are reportedly being treated in a hospital in the region capital Monywa. Maung Phone Pyae Sone Kyaw, seven, and Ma Nan Ei Wai, 12, were among the 15 people taken to Ye-U Township on Fri...
Myanmar has seen many “saddest days” since the coup. Last Friday was the latest one. At around 1 p.m., military helicopters, MI-35s, swooped down from the sky and opened fire on their target with their machine guns. Their target was not a battleground but a school where about 200 young students were...
Eleven children were killed in junta air strikes in Let Yet Kone Village in Tabayin Township, Sagaing Region on Friday, after which junta soldiers cremated most of their bodies in Ye-U, about 11 km away, in an attempt to remove any trace of the killings, according to local sources. Two regime Mi-35 ...
Myanmar’s military regime has ordered the United Nations (UN) and international NGOs operating in six townships of Rakhine State to halt their operations, as access to those areas has been temporarily blocked due to escalating clashes between junta forces and local ethnic armed organization the Arak...
There are more than 1.3 million internally displaced people in Myanmar and humanitarian assistances are needed, announced the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA Myanmar) on September 14. It stated that the ongoing armed conflict between Tatmadaw, ethnic armed gr...
Myanmar’s junta added a charge that carries a death sentence against jailed protest leader Ko Wai Moe Naing for his role in the protest movement against military rule. The 27-year-old pro-democracy activist has been held in Monywa Prison, Sagaing Region, since his arrest in April last year during an...
One year after declaring a “resistance war” against the coup regime that seized power in February 2021, Duwa Lashi La, the acting president of Myanmar’s shadow National Unity Government (NUG), knows that it is still too soon to say that victory is within reach. Although the NUG says that the resista...
yanmar’s military carried out multiple airstrikes in northern Rakhine State’s Maungdaw Township on Sunday following the fall of another base to the Arakan Army (AA), according to locals.Residents of the area near the Kyein Chaung tactical base in Maungdaw said they heard loud explosions at around 4a...
Myanmar’s junta has lost nearly 90 bases in 17 months since the coup in fighting with resistance forces and ethnic armed organizations (EAOs), according to armed groups.They included key outposts in strategic locations or critical bases for the supply of weapons and food to frontline troops. The reg...
He must be the least known president in the world, tasked with the most difficult mission, one that other heads of the state around world aren’t faced with: Leading a revolutionary government that has vowed to uproot the ruling military dictatorship in Myanmar—one of the most notorious and ruthless ...
Myanmar’s civilian National Unity Government (NUG) has said that its People’s Defense Forces (PDF) and allied ethnic revolutionary organizations (ERO)) have effective control of more than half the country after a year of waging a people’s defensive war against the military regime.In a speech on Wedn...
Myanmar junta soldiers raped at least seven women, including one suffering from mental illness, during raids on two villages in Kani Township, Sagaing Region, in late August.Six women aged between 25 and 40 were confirmed as being raped by soldiers during the raid on a village in the township on Aug...
Bangladesh’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned Myanmar’s ambassador to the country three times in the last two weeks to express Bangladesh’s deep concern at air and artillery strikes landing inside Bangladeshi territory and violations of the country’s air space.Last week, the Myanmar military...
A military regime-controlled court in Myanmar has sentenced the country’s detained elected leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to three more years’ imprisonment for alleged fraud in the 2020 election.Friday’s ruling means the 77-year-old has now been jailed for a total of 20 years; the regime court has alr...
Two civilians were killed and three more injured, including a child, after a junta artillery shell hit an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in Sagaing Region’s Myaung Township on Wednesday. The Civil Defence and Security Organisation of Myaung (CDSOM), a coalition of local resistance groups, c...
At least 10 more people were killed in junta raids and aerial attacks in Sagaing as Myanmar army soldiers and allied militia members continued a litany of assaults on communities in the region earlier this week. Among the casualties was a six-year-old from Kyunhla Township and a 17-year-old boy from...
It wasn’t a surprise that Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) boss General Yawd Serk readily flew to Naypyitaw for a second visit to negotiate peace settlement, or rather political give-and-take, as he time and again has openly said that he is for peaceful political dialogue to settle the diffe...
Myanmar junta forces have burned down 28,434 houses in 645 locations since last year’s coup, with Sagaing Region suffering the heaviest damage, according to the independent research group Data For Myanmar. Military regime troops have committed arson attacks in 11 states and regions, with Sagaing and...
The Myanmar army has continued to lay siege to several communities in southern Sagaing Region over the past two weeks, with resistance groups using explosives to ambush the junta columns responsible for the attacks. Around 20 villages in the townships of Yinmabin, Pale and Kani—which are also strong...
Members of the resistance accused junta forces in western Sagaing Region’s Paungbyin Township of killing four civilians and torching more than 300 households in the community earlier this week. A column of around 80 Myanmar army troops attacked Tha Nga, situated on the eastern banks of Chindwin Rive...
Four civilians, including a child and pregnant woman, were killed in Myanmar junta airstrikes in Kawlin Township, Sagaing Region, on Tuesday night. The regime has continued to conduct aerial bombardments and arson attacks on civilian targets despite recent United Nations calls to end the attacks.
Around 30 Myanmar junta soldiers were reportedly killed on Monday during a clash in Sagaing Region’s Katha Township with fighters from People’s Defense Forces (PDF) and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA). On early Monday, the combined force of the KIA and PDFs attacked over 50 regime troops deployed...
Myanmar junta forces have detained at least 22 residents of a village in Sagaing Region, including the abbot of a Buddhist monastery, since the beginning of August, according to locals. Some of the female detainees have reportedly been sexually assaulted. The detainees are all from Ngwe Dwin Village...
A broader military offensive launched by Myanmar’s ruling military junta earlier this month in Sagaing, Magway and other regions showing resistance to the regime looks like an effort to clear the way for new elections next year to give its rule some appearance of legitimacy, analysts say. Under Myan...
A 600-house village was reportedly burned down by Myanmar’s regime in Yesagyo Township, Magwe Region, on Thursday after the United Nations special envoy Noeleen Heyzer demanded an end to junta attacks on civilians. Junta leader Min Aung Hlaing on Wednesday met Heyzer, who asked him to stop aerial bo...
The Myanmar military and the Arakan Army (AA) clashed for the whole day near mile post No. 38 on the Myanmar-Bangladeshi border in northern Maungdaw in western Myanmar’s Rakhine State on Tuesday. Locals reported hearing continuous artillery strikes fired by the regime. “We heard shelling from the mo...
Some 37 Myanmar junta soldiers were killed on Saturday in clashes with the Rakhine ethnic armed organization the Arakan Army (AA), according to the AA’s information department. The AA and military regime troops clashed in three locations in western Myanmar’s Rakhine State on Saturday, as well as in ...
A Myanmar junta court sentenced the country’s ousted leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to an additional six years in prison on Monday, finding her guilty of further corruption charges, relating to a charity she founded in memory of her late mother. In the four corruption cases decided on Monday, a special...
A junta column that has been terrorising Sagaing Region’s eastern Depayin Township raided and torched another village, Mu Kan Gyi, for two days starting on Monday, local sources told Myanmar Now. Some 80 soldiers from the Rakhine State-based Light Infantry Battalion 376 were initially airdropped nea...
Myanmar army troops operating in eastern Depayin Township in Sagaing Region set fire to the village of Kaing Kan over the weekend, killing at least eight residents in the raid, according to local sources. A resident of the area and a member of a resistance force both told Myanmar Now that two army h...
More than 2,500 Myanmar junta troops and members of the pro-regime Border Guard Force (BGF) – equivalent to one division of the Myanmar military – have been killed since January of this year in clashes with ethnic Karen fighters in Southeast Myanmar’s Karen State. The Karen National Union (KNU) said...
Myanmar’s military shot dead 16-year-old student activist Ma Win Maw Oo during the pro-democracy popular uprising in 1988, which turns 34 years old on Monday. Nearly 34 years after her death, the same military killed Ko Jimmy, who was also a young pro-democracy student activist back in 1988. Myanmar...
Chairman of the State Administration Council (SAC) and Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Services and the delegation led by the Vice Chairman (1) of the Shan State Progressive Party (SSPP) held a meeting on August 4 at Bayintnaung Villa in Nay Pyi Taw. During the discussion, Senior General Min Aung ...
The families of 77 political activists sentenced to death by Myanmar’s military junta say they live in fear that their loved ones will be executed without warning after the military regime hanged four prominent prisoners of conscience. Frustration with the junta boiled over last week after it put to...
The chairman of ASEAN, a regional grouping of 10 Southeast Asian countries, said the bloc may have to “rethink” its approach to the Myanmar crisis if the junta continues to execute political prisoners. Cambodia currently holds the rotating chair of ASEAN, of which Myanmar is a member. Cambodian Prim...
Junta troops killed five people and detained more than 110 others during a raid on a village school run by Myanmar’s shadow National Unity Government (NUG) in embattled Sagaing region, residents and state media said Tuesday. News of the Monday raid on the school in Myinmu township’s Let Pa Kyin vill...
Myanmar’s military regime has extended the country’s state of emergency for an additional six months to Feb. 1, 2023 citing the need for additional “election preparations,” as citizens staged rallies over the weekend pledging allegiance to the anti-junta democracy movement. The decision to extend th...
The execution last weekend of four Myanmar dissidents has raised fears that more could soon be put to death by the country’s military junta. On Thursday, the regime’s spokesperson, Gen Zaw Min Tun, did not rule out that possibility in an interview with the BBC’s Burmese-language service. “However, w...
The hangings of ‘88 Generation student leader and pro-democracy veteran Ko Jimmy, former National League for Democracy lawmaker Ko Phyo Zeya Thaw, Ko Hla Myo Aung and Ko Aung Thura Zaw have marked another horrendous entry in the grim history of executions in Myanmar. Last Friday, July 22, Ko Jimmy a...
Myanmar’s civilian National Unity Government (NUG) says the junta’s hanging of the four pro-democracy activists is unacceptable and that those responsible will face justice.“For this atrocious act of brutality, the NUG pledges to take a systematic approach to any legal and political routes available...
The Myanmar regime has once again delivered an affront to the entire population, with the executions of four democracy activists: veteran pro-democracy campaigner Ko Jimmy, former National League for Democracy lawmaker Ko Phyo Zeya Thaw, Ko Hla Myo Aung and Ko Aung Thura Zaw. Never missing an opport...
Residents of two villages in central Sagaing Region say they have discovered the bodies of a dozen people killed during junta raids carried out earlier this week. Ten of the bodies were found in Kyi Su, located on the eastern bank of the Muu River in Kanbalu Township, while the other two were discov...
Junta troops killed at least 10 people and set fire to around 500 homes during a raid on a predominantly Muslim village in Myanmar’s embattled Sagaing region, residents and members of the armed opposition said Wednesday. Sources from Kyi Su village, in Sagaing’s Kanbalu township, told RFA Burmese th...
The Arakan Army (AA) says that it captured 14 junta personnel, including a police major, in northern Rakhine State’s Maungdaw Township on Monday. According to the group’s spokesperson, Khaing Thukha, AA forces clashed with members of a Border Guard Force (BGF) twice on Monday morning—once between th...
Forces believed to be from the Arakan Army (AA) clashed with the junta in Rakhine State’s northern Maungdaw Township on Monday starting at around 7am, according to locals. Residents of the area—which is largely under AA control—said that the battle took place near the village of Tu Raing, which is d...
Myanmar’s military regime has committed yet another war crime by conducting airstrikes on Thursday on four villages in Tabayin Township, Sagaing Region that killed two civilians and forced over 10,000 people from a dozen villages to flee their homes. On Thursday afternoon, regime forces arrived by h...
Around 40 civilians were used as human shields by Myanmar’s regime forces while troops defused a remote-controlled bomb laid by the People’s Defense Force (PDF) in Kantbalu Township, Sagaing Region, on Tuesday. Shwebo District resistance groups attempted to attack a junta checkpoint near Ngayant Din...
Four civilians, including a teenage girl, were executed by Myanmar junta forces during a raid in Pale Township, Sagaing Region, on Monday, according to resistance groups. Around 200 troops raided Taung Ywar Thit village and residents and resistance fighters found four bodies after the soldiers left...
Thailand should allow delivery of cross-border humanitarian aid into Myanmar and not push back people seeking refuge from threats to their life and freedom in that country, a U.S.-based NGO is urging in a new report. Thousands of Burmese have crossed into Thailand along the porous 2,400-km (1,500-mi...
Two days of fighting between junta troops and People’s Defense Forces (PDFs) in central Myanmar's Magway region ended with the grisly discovery of charred bodies scattered across a village. Locals told RFA that at least six burned corpses were found in the remains of Sue Win village in Myaing townsh...
Thousands of residents from six villages in Pakokku Township, Magwe Region, fled their homes on Friday as Myanmar’s regime forces raided and burned down two villages without being attacked. The arson attacks came after a junta sergeant was seized by a resistance force. Around 70 regime troops and Py...
Activists in Myanmar marked the 60th anniversary of a military crackdown that killed at least 100 students in the commercial capital Yangon with protests in more than a dozen townships on Thursday, despite increased security measures by junta authorities. The protests commemorating the July 7, 1962,...
Around 5,000 residents from over 10 villages in Sagaing Region’s Tabayin Township have been forced to flee their homes after the Myanmar military airlifted reinforcements into the area. On Monday at around 4.30pm three helicopters carrying over 50 junta soldiers landed in a Tabayin village, forcing ...
Myanmar’s military regime reportedly carried out 125 airstrikes within five days to defend its strategic outpost in Karen State near the Thai border while it was being attacked by resistance forces. The armed wings of the Karen National Union, the Karen National Liberation Army and the Karen Nationa...
China’s foreign minister called for Myanmar’s junta to hold talks with its opponents Sunday during his first visit to the country since the 2021 coup that plunged it into turmoil. Beijing is one of the Myanmar military’s few international allies, supplying arms and refusing to label the power grab t...
Myanmar air force chief General Htun Aung has apologised to his Thai counterpart after a Myanmar military fighter jet intruded into Thai airspace on Thursday, just a day after coup leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing met a Thai army general to discuss stability and anti-terrorism in areas along th...
A Myanmar military plane reportedly violates Thai airspace amid fierce clashes with a resistance coalition around a strategic outpost in Myawaddy Township. The junta continued aerial attacks along Myanmar’s border with Thailand and crossed into its neighbour’s airspace on Thursday as clashes with et...
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Special Envoy on Myanmar will meet six ethnic armed organizations (EAO) during his latest visit to the country, all of whom attended the military regime’s recent peace talks that were boycotted by Myanmar’s major EAOS for being non-inclusive and a s...
Regime forces deploy airstrikes and heavy artillery in a bid to prevent another base from falling into KNU hands. A military outpost located just meters away from Myanmar’s border with Thailand has seen heavy fighting over the past three days as it continues to come under attack by Karen National U...
From the outset it was quite clear that Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing's peace call on 22 April was a piecemeal intervention to lift the tremendous military and political pressures on him and his coup-maker regime to drive a wedge between the ethnic-democratic forces, rather than to strive for...
When nearly 200 regime soldiers left Mon Taing Pin Village in Sagaing Region on May 12, Ko Thurein found his father, brother-in-law and eight other relatives who had been missing for two days. But all ten of his family members were dead, slaughtered by junta forces along with 19 other villagers duri...
The Myanmar junta on Thursday confirmed that it has moved detained Myanmar democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to prison from an undisclosed location where she had been under house arrest, and claimed she was being treated “well” after being placed in solitary confinement. Junta spokesperson Zaw M...
Dealing a new blow to detained Myanmar democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the military junta has ordered that she be moved to Naypyitaw Prison on Wednesday from an undisclosed location where she has been under house arrest, according to sources close to the matter. She will be held in solitary c...
The Myanmar junta calls them “peace talks” but the aim appears to be to keep potential enemies at bay. When the State Administration Council (SAC) recently announced peace talks, offering an olive branch to the Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAO), junta leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing said the ta...
The Karen national union (KNU) will not participate in peace talks as long as the military remain involved in politics, according to Padoh Saw Taw Nee, the (KNU) Foreign Affairs Officer. The military has been holding peace talks in Naypyidaw since the third week of May and has so far met with six EA...
Two armed men stand behind a tangle of bodies leaking blood which congeals in the dust. Each of the five victims is blindfolded, hands tied behind their back, and appear to have been killed by gunfire or a blade to the throat. The armed men – one with his rifle slung over his shoulder and the other ...
The charred bodies of five members of the anti-coup movement were found by members of a local resistance force amid military raids on villages in northern Yesagyo Township in Magway Region on Tuesday evening. The township’s People’s Defence Force (PDF) chapter announced that two local guerrilla figh...
Myanmar’s junta boss Min Aung Hlaing repeated his invitation to ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) which have not attended the current so-called peace talks. Major EAOs, including the Karen National Union (KNU), Kachin Independence Army (KIA), Karenni National Progressive Party and Chin National Fron...
More than 5,000 civilians from Mawlaik Township, Sagaing Region, have fled their homes as Myanmar’s regime forces raided and burned down over 1,000 houses in four villages in the township within three days. Between June 10 and 12 without being attacked an estimated 250 troops from Battalion 366 raid...
Myanmar’s people’s defense forces (PDF) and other resistance fighters have rejected junta proposals to lay down arms and join them, saying they will never surrender to killers. In a June 11 announcement, the regime asked resistance fighters to surrender and return to civilian lives, saying they will...
The wife of leading activist Ko Phyo Zeya Thaw, who is on death row awaiting execution by the Myanmar junta, asked the international community not to stand by and let the regime kill her husband. “I am very worried about him. I would like to urge the international community not to stand by and watch...
Myanmar’s junta has vowed to carry out the death sentences of leading activists Ko Jimmy and Ko Phyo Zeya Thaw, despite widespread condemnation of the decision, both internationally and locally. The United Nations and a number of countries and other world organizations has joined local groups in con...
More than 2,000 regime soldiers were killed and almost 540 wounded during fighting with the ethnic armed forces and people’s defense forces (PDFs) within a month, according to the parallel National Unity Government (NUG). The NUG’s Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration said from May 7 to June 6 t...
Myanmar opposition fronts condemned a plan by the coup regime to execute four men, including two pro-democracy leaders, as “unlawful” on Tuesday, vowing to hold those involved in the decision accountable. In separate statements, the National Unity Consultative Council (NUCC)—a body formed to bring t...
As the Myanmar military junta reaches out to Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAO) for dialogue with a tentative promise of peace it is becoming increasingly clear that the military is seeking to divide and rule in order to maintain power. Judging by the reporting on the visits to Naypyidaw by the indivi...
Myanmar’s parallel National Unity Government (NUG) declared on Wednesday that any agreements made with the terrorist regime are illegal and warned that they won’t be recognized, as the junta continued to hold talks with a number of ethnic armed organizations (EAO). This week on Tuesday, the United W...
Revolutionary forces are sceptical of junta claims that a downtown Yangon bomb that killed one and injured over 10 was the work of a PDF. The incident happened near to a bus stop on Barr Road in downtown Yangon at around 3:20 p.m. on the afternoon of 31 May. According to reports one person was kille...
A bomb went off in downtown Yangon on Tuesday afternoon, killing one man and injuring nine others, according to the social welfare group that brought them to the commercial capital’s general hospital. The explosion occurred at around 3:30pm near a crowded bus stop located at the intersection of Anaw...
The Peace Negotiation Team of the State Administration Council (SAC) and a delegation led by the chairman of the Karen National Union/the Karen National Liberation Army (KUN/KNLA-PC) held talks and signed agreements following three days of negotiations, according to the SAC’s Information Team. The S...
Fighting broke out between Myanmar’s junta and the Arakan Army (AA) in Paletwa Township, Chin State, on Thursday. The two sides clashed at the foot of Mt Suu Poke in northwest Paletwa with Light Infantry Battalion 289 providing artillery support, according to residents. “There is a junta outpost and...
NAYPYITAW-----The Peace Negotiation Team of the State Administration Council (SAC) and a delegation led by Vice-Chairman of the New Mon State Party (NMSP) Nai Aung Min held a talks and signed agreements following three days of negotiations, according to the SAC’s Information Team. The SAC’s peace ne...
The New Mon State Party (NMSP) has been heavily criticized by the Mon community after the ethnic armed organization (EAO) held talks with Myanmar’s military regime. While the country’s major EAOs rejected the junta’s recent offer of peace talks as neither genuine nor all-inclusive, the NMSP became t...
The New Mon State Party (NMSP) said representatives discussed a constitution for Mon State in line with federalism with regime leaders at the touted peace talks in Naypyidaw. On Monday, the ethnic armed organisation (EAO) met with the State Administration Council (SAC) leader and army chief Snr-Gen ...
The peace negotiation team of the State Administration Council (SAC) and a delegation led by the chairman of the Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) held talks and signed agreements following three days of negotiations, the SAC’s information team reported. Their second-day meeting took place at...
General Yawd Serk, the chairman of the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army-South (RCSS/SSA-S), met with regime leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing on Friday, becoming the first ethnic leader to join the junta’s peace talks. Yawd Serk arrived in Naypyitaw on Thursday from Shan State’s...
YANGON, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar's State Administration Council's (SAC) chairman Senior General Min Aung Hlaing will hold peace talks with 10 ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) on May 20, the council's spokesperson Zaw Min Tun said on Thursday. "We will hold the peace talks tomorrow, May 20," Zaw M...
The village of Saung Nang Khae was seen burning on the northeastern shore of Pekhon Lake in southern Shan State on Monday after junta troops occupied a hill east of the community days earlier. From across the lake—some three miles away—a local eyewitness said that he could see that “the whole villag...
More Myanmar junta victims have been found around Mone Taing Ping village in Ye-U Township, Sagaing Region, with the death toll rising to 36, according to residents. Most of the victims were found in torched houses and bore signs of torture, they said. Some corpses were dumped in wells. “We found th...
Myanmar junta troops have killed 29 people since May 10 in Sagaing Region’s Ye-U Township, according to local resistance groups and residents. Two of the victims were resistance fighters, while the rest were civilians from a number of villages who were detained by regime forces and taken to Mone Tai...
Coup Leader Min Aung Hlaing will discuss federalism at the junta’s meeting with ethnic armed organisations (EAOs), according to Colonel Khun Okkar, the leading committee member of the Peace Process Steering Team (PPST). “The Coup Leader sent us a message, through his soldiers, that he wanted to disc...
Of the 10 ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) that have agreed to attend talks with junta chief Min Aung Hlaing in Naypyitaw, seven have current or former leaders who received the Wunna Kyawhtin title from the coup leader last month. Four of the recipients are still alive and the other three were hono...
A total of ten ethnic armed groups had accepted the invitation to attend the peace talks initiated by Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, chairman of the State Administration Council (SAC), said Maj-Gen Zaw Min Tun, spokesperson for the SAC. "LDU informed us to attend the peace talk last night and now t...
Myanmar’s four most powerful ethnic armed groups have rejected an olive branch from the junta, saying there can be no peace talks until the military regime allows the country’s shadow government and the paramilitary group that fights on its behalf to take a seat at the table. On April 22, junta chie...
Chairman of State Administration Council (SAC) Senior-General Min Aung Hlaing said that negotiations will be made as much as possible with ethnic armed organizations. He said these words at the Union Government meeting held on May 5. “We will negotiate as much as we can with ethnic armed organizatio...
More than 1,300 houses were razed by Myanmar junta arson attacks in villages in Ayadaw, Shwebo and Khin-U townships in Sagaing Region from April 29 to May 2, with thousands fleeing from their homes. One village in Ayadaw and Khin-U and two villages in Shwebo were torched by junta soldiers and pro-ju...
Coup leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing is increasingly worried that he might lose his position as Myanmar dictator, said observers, after the junta chief recently invited leaders of ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) to peace talks. In a televised address on April 22, Min Aung Hlaing called for f...
YANGON-----Former Chairman of Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD) Khun Tun Oo who is also a veteran politician died at his home in Yangon this afternoon, says Sai Leik, SNLD’s General Secretary. He was 79 years old and died during a sleep. “We don’t hear that he has no severe disease. He ...
The junta will counter ongoing nationwide armed resistance to its coup council through the “force of the people,” a military spokesperson said in a press conference on Wednesday. The reference, made by Gen Zaw Min Tun, was to a plan to create arm militias under a “public security system” to support ...
Myanmar’s military regime has killed civilians, torched houses and looted valuables in resistance hot spots across the country. Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by fighting and Dr. Win Myat Aye, the humanitarian affairs and disaster management minister in the shadow National Unity...
Military tensions are growing between junta troops and local resistance groups along the Dawei-Htee Khee Road in southern Myanmar’s Tanintharyi Region, after resistance fighters attacked a police station in Pagayi Village along the road. The Karen National Defense Organization Brigade 4 and People’s...
Myanmar’s Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM), a popular strike movement that at its peak brought the administrative machinery of the military regime to a halt, has lost more than one-third of its active members amid a crackdown by the junta, organizers and the country’s shadow government said Tuesday...
Myanmar’s junta leader Min Aung Hlaing has invited the leaders of ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) for talks to end armed conflict in the country. Observers said only a few EAOs would attend. In his televised address on the junta’s mouthpiece Myawady TV on Friday, Min Aung Hlaing proposed face-to-f...
Amid rising armed resistance against his rule in Myanmar, junta leader Min Aung Hlaing has invited the leaders of ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) for talks “to end armed conflict”. However, given his recent statement that his regime would not hold talks with the opposition, the shadow National Uni...
The number of Myanmar people displaced by fighting between resistance forces and the Myanmar military in anti-regime strongholds in the west and northwest of the country has exceeded 300,000 ‘for the first time’ since last year’s coup. The United Nations (UN) Office for the Coordination of Humanitar...
A prominent leader of a resistance group in Sagaing Region has called on other armed groups and the public across Myanmar to accelerate attacks on anyone affiliated with the military regime. On Tuesday, Bo Nagar, the commander of the Myanmar Royal Dragon Army (MRDA), said it is time to attack junta ...
A reward program offered by Myanmar’s shadow National Unity Government (NUG) to junta soldiers who defect with jets, helicopters and other vehicles is likely to test the loyalty of the military’s lower ranks, according to former servicemen. Earlier this month, the NUG announced that it was offering ...
A coalition of anti-junta forces killed 40 Myanmar military soldiers during a day of intense fighting in the Karen State town of Lay Kay Kaw on Sunday, the National Unity Government (NUG) has said. Fighting broke out at around 2am, when some 300 junta troops clashed with the armed wing of the Karen ...
Heavy fighting between junta troops and a joint force of ethnic fighters and prodemocracy paramilitaries in Myanmar’s Kayin state resulted in the largest number of casualties the military has suffered in clashes since it seized power last year, according to sources. Karen National Liberation Army (K...
In an unprecedented move to encourage more defections as well as to protect civilians from junta forces’ airstrikes and shelling, Myanmar’s shadow government is now offering huge monetary incentives of up to half a million US dollars to regime soldiers, who have been warring against their compatriot...
The National Unity Government (NUG) Defense Minister Yee Mon said that Interim People’s Administrations can be set up in regions which are overseen by People Defense Forces (PDFs), in a 6 April NUG report. “Currently, People Defense Forces (PDFs) have been able to govern plenty of territories in the...
Myanmar’s junta has seized more than 547 houses and other properties belonging to anti-regime activists since the February 2021 coup, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP). The activist group reported on Monday that the junta significantly stepped up its seizures of ...
A Myanmar military tribunal has handed down death sentences to eight more youths accused of attacking junta targets in Yangon, bringing the total number of those facing the death penalty since the coup to over 110. They were sentenced under the Counter-Terrorism Law. One of the eight was sentenced i...
Following last year’s coup, the Myanmar military has been struggling with a growing popular armed resistance against it, as well as a rising number of defections. As of this month, the number of soldiers who have quit has risen to nearly 3,000, including some battalion commanders—the highest positi...
Brutal killings of each other will not help achieve the goal, and if both sides are willing, there must be a round-table discussion, said General Saw Mutu Sae Poe, chairman of the Karen National Union (KNU). The KNU chairman made the comment during an opening speech at the fourth conference (second ...
The Myanmar military regime has enacted a new law making it compulsory for law enforcement officers to fight alongside soldiers on the front lines, while expanding their powers to restrict citizens’ civil liberties. The law comes at a time when regime forces are sustaining huge casualties in both ur...
Myanmar's junta will "annihilate" coup opponents, army chief Min Aung Hlaing said Sunday as the military staged a show of force on the anniversary of its bloodiest crackdown so far on democracy protests. Myanmar has been in chaos since a putsch in February 2021, with more than 1,700 people killed in...
A Myanmar military convoy consisting of 80 vehicles including artillery and armored vehicles has arrived in Mindat in southern Chin State, according to the Chinland Defense Force (CDF), a local resistance group fighting the regime. The convoy headed into the Chin Hills along the Monywa-Pakokku Road....
Villagers confirmed to Karen News a 17-year-old girl was killed while three others villagers were seriously injured by Burma Army artillery at around 5am on Thursday. The artillery shells also damage a number of villagers’ houses. Following fighting between the local Karen National Liberation Army c...
The ASEAN Special Envoy Mr. Prak Sokhonn's visit to Myanmar will be reviewed by the Peace Process Steering Team (PPST), Colonel Khun Okka, chairman of the Pa-O National Liberation League, told Mizzima on 22 March."He will go back on the 23rd. We will review [his visit] after reading their statement”...
Myanmar’s regime forces detained about 25 people, including women and children, sheltering at a monastery in Yinmabin Township, Sagaing Region, on Monday. The Yoma resistance group said around 150 regime reinforcements arrived in Yinmabin town on Monday.
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