Entries by ND Burma

Renewed fighting drives 50,000 people from homes in northern Myanmar

An aid worker says that at least 15 residents near Lashio have been killed from artillery fire since July 3. Some 50,000 people have fled their homes over the last five days amid renewed fighting around Lashio, the capital of northern Shan state, residents and relief workers told Radio Free Asia. At least 15 civilians […]

Human Rights Situation weekly update (June 22 to 30, 2024)

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 […]

Fleeing fighting in Rakhine, Rohingya pay to be smuggled to Bangladesh

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 […]

No return home: Those who no chance to go back home from behind bars

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 […]

UN SECURITY COUNCIL MUST TAKE IMMEDIATE INTERVENTION TO COORDINATE PROTECTION OF ROHINGYA AND OTHER ETHNIC MINORITIES IN MYANMAR

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, […]

In rare backtrack, junta says it will investigate senior monk’s shooting death

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 Situation weekly update (June 15 to 21, 2024)

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 […]

Collapse at notorious Myanmar rare earth mine kills 15 people

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 […]

Myanmar: a breakneck speed “disintegration of human rights,” says High Commissioner

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, […]

Myanmar’s displaced people tell their stories on World Refugee Day

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 […]