Other inmates, including female prisoners, who participated were placed in solitary confinement. Two Burmese political prisoners beaten by the ruling military junta’s prison authorities for participating in a ceremony marking Martyrs’ Day have died of their injuries, sources with knowledge of the situation said. They were among four inmates authorities physically assaulted in Tharrawaddy Prison in Bago […]
The attacks come as resistance forces continue to hold the township’s fire department chief and others for helping the regime to target dissidents Regime forces have begun carrying out raids in Sagaing Region’s Budalin Township following the capture late last week of fire department staff and their families by local resistance groups. According to sources […]
Investigators say they are looking for evidence linking crimes to specific individuals, especially high-level officials UN investigators said Tuesday they had gathered strong evidence of surging war crimes in Myanmar, including mass executions and sexual violence, and were building case files to help bring perpetrators to justice. The Southeast Asian country has been ravaged by […]
Human Rights Violations took place in States and Regions from Aug 1 to 7, 2023 Military Junta Troops arrested almost 60 civilians and used them as human shields from Tanintharyi Region and Sagaing Region from August 1st to 7th. Military Junta Troops launched airstrikes and dropped bombs in Pale Township, Sagaing Region on August 7th. […]
To: Government of Japan, Ministry of JusticeKen Saitō, Minister for Justiceken.saito@moj.go.jpOffice of the ASEAN-Japan and G7 Justice Ministers’ Meeting Organizing CommitteeAJSMJ-Japan@i.moj.go.jpInternational Division, Media DeskMOJ-Itn-Conference10@i.moj.go.jp Cc: Government of Japan, Ministry of Foreign AffairsHayashi Yoshimasa, Minister for Foreign Affairshayashi.yoshimasa@mofa.go.jpSoutheast & Southwest Asia Affairs DepartmentYutaka Arima, Directoryutaka.arima@mofa.go.jpInternational Cooperation Departmenticdmoj@i.moj.go.jp National Unity Government of Myanmar, Ministry of JusticeU Thein […]
They beat 31 political prisoners and locked them in narrow, dark cells. Prison guards at Myanmar’s Thayarwady (Tharyawaddy) Prison have beaten 31 inmates for marking the country’s Martyrs’ Day and four are being treated for their injuries in the prison hospital, sources told RFA Friday. Prisoners held a saluting ceremony on July 19, while women […]
Evicted residents, who can’t afford to buy new houses, have been forced to rent places or return to their villages. Myanmar’s military junta has evicted families and destroyed more than 16,500 homes and other buildings in large cities and towns across the Southeast Asian country, claiming that the structures “encroached on land owned by the […]
Among those detained are two teachers accused of taking part in an online education program run by the NUG Sources in Mandalay say that a number of people, including two teachers accused of working with Myanmar’s shadow National Unity Government (NUG), have been arrested in the city in recent weeks. The teachers were both detained […]
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The latest attacks come amid reports that the military is using the river to transport supplies to northern Sagaing Region At least 5,000 people have been displaced by recent military raids targeting villages along the Chindwin River in Sagaing Region, according to local relief workers. The latest attacks come as seven cargo ships, accompanied by […]