Human Rights Violations took place in States and Regions from June 22 to 30, 2024 Military Junta Troop launched airstrikes and dropped bombs in Sagaing Region, Mandalay Region, Tanintharyi Region, Rakhine State, and Shan State from June 22nd to 30th. When the Military Junta used drones and dropped bombs in Sagaing Region, Bago Region, and […]
Authorities, recently arrived refugees say clashes between Myanmar junta, rebels drove them across the border. Rohingya are being brought into southeastern Bangladesh by smugglers as fighting between ethnic rebel groups and junta-aligned forces worsens next-door in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, said officials and border crossers interviewed by BenarNews. Smugglers are targeting members of the stateless Rohingya […]
Over the past three years of this Spring Revolution, activists and civilians across the country have been arbitrarily arrested by junta in relation to the revolution, on a widespread and systematics scale. The junta has been detaining individuals in police station, interrogation centers, and prison under their control, torturing them physically, mentally, and sexually in […]
To: Members of the UN Security Council Copy: Members of the UN Human Rights CouncilUN High Commissioner for Human RightsUN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar 27 June 2024 Re: UN Security Council must take immediate intervention to coordinate protection of Rohingya and other ethnic minorities in Myanmar Your Excellencies, We, […]
The military first blamed Sayadaw Bhaddanta Munindabhivamsa’s death on anti-junta rebels Myanmar’s military junta announced Friday that it would investigate the shooting death of a senior Buddhist monk, just one day after junta-controlled media denied responsibility. Sayadaw Bhaddanta Munindabhivamsa, the abbot of Win Neinmitayon Monastery in the Bago region, was shot dead Wednesday in his car […]
Human Rights Violations took place in States and Regions from June 15 to 21, 2024 Military Junta Troop launched airstrikes and dropped bombs in Sagaing Region, Kachin State, and Rakhine State from June 15th to 21st. The Military Junta used drones and dropped bombs in Sagaing Region and Mon State. The political prisoners from O-Bo […]
Boom in unregulated mining is fueled by demand from China and beyond for minerals used in electric vehicles. Rescuers recovered the bodies of 15 mine workers in northern Myanmar on Friday after a landslide at a rare earths mine, residents said, the latest deaths in an unregulated industry feeding surging demand for the minerals in China and […]
Mr. President, Excellencies, Distinguished delegates, As we convene here in the Council, yet again discussing Myanmar, we are bearing witness to a country being suffocated by an illegitimate military regime. Myanmar is in agonizing pain. And the disintegration of human rights continues at breakneck speed. This is a crisis emblematic of a decades-long legacy of military domination, […]
More than 3 million people from Myanmar have been uprooted by conflict. More than 3 million people in Myanmar have been uprooted from their homes, most of them due to intensifying conflict in the country’s three-year civil war, according to the United Nations. They are among the 120 million people globally who have been forcibly […]
Joint Statement on World Refugee Day End the Myanmar military junta’s atrocities causing mass displacement Ensure protection and locally led cross-border aid for displaced communities 20 June 2024 On the occasion of World Refugee Day, we, the undersigned 128 organizations, call on the United Nations, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Myanmar’s neighboring countries, […]