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, […]
Human Rights Violations took place in States and Regions from June 8 to 14, 2024 Military Junta Troop launched airstrikes and dropped bombs in the Sagaing Region, Tanintharyi Region, Chin State, and Rakhine State from June 8th to 14th. The Military Junta Troop arrested a youth for Military Service from Nyaung-U Township, Mandalay Region, and […]
Several are in critical condition, a human rights group said. Myanmar prison authorities beat about 80 female political prisoners, critically injuring five of them, after prison authorities sparked a protest when they confiscated the women’s belongings, a human rights group told Radio Free Asia on Tuesday. Many people have been imprisoned in Myanmar for their […]
Human Rights Violations took place in States and Regions from June 1 to 7, 2024 Military Junta Troop launched airstrikes and dropped bombs in Sagaing Region, Mandalay Region, Magway Region, and Kachin State from June 1st to 7th. People who were selected for Military Service were evaded, and therefore, over 20 people of their relatives […]
Activists suspect junta forces got a tip-off about a meeting of anti-junta groups. A Myanmar military airstrike on a meeting of anti-junta activists in a monastery in central Myanmar killed 16 people, including two monks, and wounded 22 people, witnesses told Radio Free Asia. The bloody raid in Let Pan Tan village was the latest […]