A short report by the Network for Human Rights Documentation-Burma Despite the many challenges and changes that the people of Burma have unjustly experienced since the attempted coup on 1 February 2021, there remains a joint commitment and effort for a federal and democratic future. Four years ago, the military junta did not hesitate to […]
Ministry of Labor told employment agencies not to allow men aged 18 to 35 to sign up for foreign work contracts. Myanmar’s junta has banned employment agencies from sending military aged men abroad as it struggles with a growing civil war while promising to extend peace and stability for an election that it hopes will […]
They fear becoming targets of bombings, sniper fire or airstrikes. More than 1,000 civilians have fled Rakhine state’s capital Sittwe and nearby areas in western Myanmar, fearing heavy artillery attacks as tensions rise between junta forces and the Arakan Army, an ethnic armed group that has advanced on junta positions, residents said Friday. Ongoing exchanges […]
Responding to leaked execution videos, armed group acknowledges crimes, vows accountability “The Arakan Army’s acknowledgment of its forces committing these war crimes is a vital step toward accountability,” said Ejaz Min Khant, Human Rights Associate at Fortify Rights. “But it’s not enough to merely say that the perpetrators have been punished. The AA must be transparent about […]
The group’s spokesperson says the incident was retaliation for the deaths of AA family members. Read RFA coverage of this story in Burmese. Ethnic Rakhine rebels on Friday confirmed the torture and execution of two prisoners of war from Myanmar’s military after video clips of the killings went viral online. The videos have prompted an […]
GANHRI’s removal of the MNHRC is a step in the right direction in terms of paving the way for a future in which the promotion and protection of human rights in Myanmar is strengthened, whilst also hollowing out the military junta’s false claims of legitimacy. In a blow to the junta’s efforts to claim false […]
Airstrikes kill 28 military family members at detention camp The Arakan Army (AA) claimed that a total of 28 people, including children, were killed and 25 others were injured by airstrikes carried out by the Burma Air Force on an undisclosed location near Ram Creek in Mrauk-U Township of Arakan State on Saturday. The AA […]
The junta still holds a third of Myanmar, and two-thirds of the population, but misrule has left the regime broke. Myanmar’s military approaches the fourth anniversary of the coup d’etat that put them in power in terminal decline. The economy continues to atrophy, with even more pronounced energy shortages, less foreign exchange, and an even larger […]
The military has responded to an insurgent offer of talks with even more airstrikes, residents say. The Myanmar air force has bombed a fishing village in Rakhine state killing 41 civilians and wounding 52, most of them Rohingya Muslims, residents involved in rescue work said on Thursday, in an attack insurgents condemned as a war […]
Shin Daewe had been convicted of violating the country’s Anti-terrorism Law. Myanmar’s junta has reduced the sentence of journalist and award-winning documentary filmmaker Shin Daewe from life behind bars to 15 years as part of a larger prisoner amnesty, her family said Thursday. On Jan. 5, the junta announced that it had shortened the life […]