Entries by ND Burma

Myanmar army column kills several elderly civilians in assault on Sagaing Region village

Seven people who were unable to flee due to their advanced age and disabilities are found dead in their torched houses after a three-hour siege by junta troops in Budalin Township A 50-soldier junta column killed seven civilians—most of whom were elderly and had disabilities—in an arson attack on a village in Sagaing Region’s Budalin […]

Human Rights Situation weekly update (March 15 to 21, 2023)

The Military Junta arrested about 130 civilians from Sagaing, Magway, Tanintharyi Region and used them as human shields from March 15th to 21st. They burnt and killed 11 civilians from Mandalay and Magway Region within a week. 4 people were injured and 3 people died by the land mines. 2 civilians died by the Pyusawhtee […]

Myanmar Regime Massacres in Numbers

Myanmar’s civilian National Unity Government (NUG) claimed on Wednesday that the regime has committed 64 massacres in five states and regions, killing at least 766 people since the 2021 coup. The NUG listed nine massacres in 2021, 44 in 2022 and 11 this year. In massacres, regime troops killed 104 people this year, about 20 […]

UNHCR: Rakhine not safe for Myanmar’s Rohingya repatriation pilot project

A delegation from Myanmar has arrived in Bangladesh to begin interviewing possible returnees. The United Nations refugee agency said Wednesday that conditions in Myanmar’s Rakhine state were not favorable for the safe return of 1,000 Rohingya from Bangladesh whom Myanmar wants to repatriate under a China-mediated program. A delegation from Myanmar arrived in the Bangladeshi […]

Human Rights Situation weekly update (March 8 to 14, 2023)

Military Junta arrested and killed 40 civilians including 30 from Pinlaung, Southern Shan State, and beheaded 2 from March 8th to 15th. Military Junta troops still committing Human rights Abuses and War Crimes against Civilians. They arrested over 19 people as a human shield. They did 4 airstrikes and dropped bombs within a week in […]

Myanmar army kills 21 people sheltering in Shan state monastery, rebels say

3 monks were among those who died in the raid. UPDATED at 2:39 P.M. EST on 03-13-2023 Junta troops killed 21 locals, including three monks, in a raid on a monastery in Shan state’s Pinlaung township, according to the Karenni and Pa-O National Defense Forces. In a statement released Sunday, it said the Myanmar army […]

Junta forces kill 29, including three monks, in southern Shan State

The bodies of the victims were found scattered around a village monastery in Pinlaung Township on Saturday Content warning: This report contains graphic images depicting the effects of extreme violence, which may be upsetting to some readers. We advise discretion in viewing this content.  Myanmar’s military has been accused of committing another mass killing of civilians, […]

Three civilians killed in attack on army truck in Mandalay Region

Local resistance forces say they mistakenly believed that the car the victims were driving in was travelling together with the targeted vehicle Resistance forces in Mandalay Region have admitted to inadvertently killing two adults and a six-year-old child during an attack on a military vehicle earlier this week. The incident occurred on the Myingyan-Natogyi road […]