Hundreds of residents of Pyin Oo Lwin – a garrison town in Mandalay Region – have been fleeing since Thursday due to fears of an imminent attack by an ethnic army and allied resistance forces, residents say. Family members of military personnel stationed in the town, which is home to the Defense Service Academies – […]
Many people were wounded in the latest air attack in the strife-torn Mandalay region, residents said. The Myanmar junta’s air force bombed a village in a strife-torn central region killing seven people as they slept, an insurgent group said on Thursday, the latest deaths in what opponents of the junta say is a deliberate campaign […]
The minority Muslims left their homes in western Myanmar as fighting between the junta and insurgents intensified. Approximately 5,000 minority Rohingya Muslims attempting to flee from this week’s fighting in western Myanmar have been waiting for several days near the Naf River for an opportunity to cross into Bangladesh, residents said. Intense combat in Rakhine […]
Junta troops have burned at least 400 houses in one Sagaing region since late July, residents said. Myanmar junta forces shelled a village in the Sagaing region killing four people, residents said, in the latest attack in an anti-insurgent campaign in which hundreds of homes have been torched and thousands of villagers have been displaced, […]
Human Rights Violations took place in States and Regions from July 22 to 31, 2024 Military Junta Troop launched airstrikes and dropped bombs in Sagaing Region, Magway Region, Tanintharyi Region, Mandalay Region, Shan State, and Rakhine State from July 22nd to 31st. The Military Junta Ships attacked with heavy artillery to the villages along the […]
The junta has issued a directive to police and local administrators in wards and villages to monitor internally displaced persons (IDPs) entering Ayeyarwady Region from Rakhine State. Administrators and police officers have been instructed to check where IDPs are staying and to conduct interrogations of IDPs and the homeowners of the homes they are staying […]
Approximately 1,500 Myanmar refugees entered the India’s Mizoram State between 22 and 29 July bringing the total number of Myanmar refugees in Mizoram to 35,125, according to All India Radio. It said that the 1,500 new refugees had dispersed across five districts in Mizoram State. Champhai District saw the highest influx, with 1,293 refugees arriving […]
Nay Linn Htike wrote articles for the Democratic Voice of Burma before the 2021 military coup. A former reporter who was imprisoned under a law designed to punish comments that imply the military junta’s rule is illegitimate has died of cancer at an infamous prison near Yangon, a former coworker told Radio Free Asia. Nay […]
Myanmar Witness has just published an important report on the threat to schools in Myanmar, a report welcomed by the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office. Documenting damage to Myanmar’s education system since the 2021 coup, Myanmar Witness has documented 174 distinct incidents of violence affecting educational institutions in Myanmar since February 2021. Schools have […]
Human Rights Violations took place in States and Regions from July 15 to 21, 2024 Military Junta Troop launched airstrikes and dropped bombs in Mandalay Region, Tanintharyi Region, Shan State, Kachin State, and Mon State from July 15th to 21st. The Military Junta Navy attacked heavy artillery on the villages along the Ayeyarwady River in […]