Letter from Zeyar Lwin and Paing Ye Thu members of the Peacock Generation in Myanmar Seven members of the Peacock Generation—Kay Khine Tun, Zayar Lwin, Paing Pyo Min, Paing Ye Thu, Zaw Lin Htut, Su Yadanar Myint and Nyein Chan Soe —were arrested in April and May 2019 after they performed Thangyat, a traditional performance […]
By SAN YAMIN AUNG 1 November 2019 YANGON—Activists, human rights defenders, journalists and ordinary citizens face a growing threat of imprisonment for voicing opinions critical of the Myanmar army and government. Laws that criminalize various types of expression have been used to put several critics of the government and military—especially those who challenge the military-drafted 2008 Constitution […]
The Arakan Army will investigate the source of a viral Facebook video showing the brutal murder of a civilian, a spokesperson for the group said Wednesday. The Tatmadaw, meanwhile, accused the AA of committing, filming and sharing the murder to terrorize and control local populations. “We have never made propaganda,” Tatmadaw spokesperson Col Win Zaw […]
Seeking Justice in Burma October 2019 Summary Report A worrying trend of disregard for human rights continued in October with civilian casualties mounting; predominantly in Rakhine State where tensions between the Burma Army and Arakan Army remain tense.
30 October 2019 Five performers were sentenced to one year in prison at a Yangon court today for poking fun at the military in a satirical play over the Burmese New Year. Peacock Generation troupe members Kay Khine Tun, Zayar Lwin, Paing Pyo Min, Paing Ye Thu and Zaw Lin Htut have already spent months in […]
Amnesty International has gathered fresh evidence that the Myanmar military is continuing to commit atrocities against ethnic minorities in the north of the country, with civilians bearing the brunt of offensives against multiple armed groups. The conflicts show no sign of abating, raising the prospect of further violations. A new report, “Caught in the middle”: Abuses […]
Seeking Justice in Burma August-September 2019 Summary Report: Throughout August and September, human rights violations were committed against the backdrop of peace negotiations, particularly in northern Shan, Rakhine and Kachin states. Despite reports that the Burma Army and armed groups agreed ‘in principle’ on a draft ceasefire at the beginning of September by the end […]
ND-BURMA: A Significant and Substantial Increase in Documented Human Rights Violations in the First Six Months of 2019 18 September, 2019 For immediate release As the conflict escalated in Rakhine State and continued in the north and northeast of Burma, from January to June 2019, ND-Burma and its member organisations documented a substantial and significant […]
Our latest human-rights report is now available in English and Burmese online. The report is a collection of data from our members which details abuses from January to July 2019. Among our observations, there was a 360% increase in the number of documented human rights violations in the first six months of 2019 compared to […]
ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်မြောက်ပိုင်းမှာ ကျန်ရှိနေသေးတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ခြောက်သိန်းကျော်ဟာ ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအရ ဖိနှိပ်ချုပ်ချယ်မှုတွေ ကြုံနေရပြီး လူမျိုးတုံးသတ်ဖြတ်မှု အန္တရာယ် ဆက်ရှိနေတယ်လို့ ကုလသမဂ္ဂ အချက်အလက်ရှာဖွေရေး မစ်ရှင်က FFM က ဂျနီဗာကို ဒီကနေ့ တင်သွင်းတဲ့ အစီရင်ခံစာမှာ ဖော်ပြထားပါတယ်။ ၂ဝ၁၇ ခုနှစ်က တပ်မတော်ရဲ့ နယ်မြေရှင်းလင်းရေး စစ်ဆင်ရေးကြောင့် ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်မြောက်ပိုင်းက ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ၇ သိန်း ၄ သောင်းကျော် ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံကို ထွက်ပြေးခဲ့ပြီး ထောင်ပေါင်းများစွာ သတ်ဖြတ်ခံခဲ့ရတာကြောင့် လူမျိုးတုံးသတ်ဖြတ်မှုကို တပ်မတော်က ကျူးလွန်ခဲ့တယ်လို့ အစီရင်ခံစာမှာ ဖော်ပြထားပါတယ်။ ဒါပေမယ့် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဟာ လူမျိုးတုံးသတ်ဖြတ်မှု တားဆီးဖို့၊ လူမျိုးတုံးသတ်ဖြတ်မှုတွေကို စုံစမ်းစစ်ဆေးဖို့၊ လူမျိုးတုံးသတ်ဖြတ်မှုကို ရာဇဝတ်မှုအဖြစ် သတ်မှတ်ပြီး အရေးယူအပြစ်ပေးတာတွေ ဆောင်ရွက်ဖို့ တာဝန် ပျက်ကွက်နေတယ်လို့ ဆိုပါတယ်။ ပြီးခဲ့တဲ့နှစ်ကလည်း […]