Twenty-nine were casualties confirmed as of Tuesday morning in a suspected drone strike on an IDP camp near the KIA headquarters Nearly 30 internally displaced persons (IDPs) were killed in a suspected junta drone strike on a village near the headquarters of the ethnic armed organisation the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in Laiza, northern Myanmar, […]
The weapon, the type and origin of which are as yet unidentified, may be a remnant of fighting between junta and Arakan Army forces that forced people from their homes in the area in 2022 An explosive killed one child and put two others in critical condition when it detonated in a displaced persons’ camp […]
Dozens more were injured in what Kachin forces say was an airstrike near their HQ. Updated Oct. 10, 2023, 02:39 p.m. ET. Twenty-nine people were killed, including 11 children, when junta air forces dropped a bomb on a displaced persons camp in northern Kachin state, a Kachin Independence Army information officer told Radio Free Asia […]
Residents have not returned home at the time of reporting out of fear for their safety, instead seeking shelter and holding a funeral for the victim in the forest near the village Heavy artillery shelling killed an eight-year-old and forced the residents of his village in western Hpruso Township, Karenni State to flee their homes […]
Date: 9 October 2023 Press release by the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT) A new report by the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT) links escalating abuses by SAC troops in Kachin and northern Shan State to the regime’s attempts to secure transport routes for expansion of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. The report documents a […]
Human Rights Violations took place in States and Regions from Oct 1 to 7, 2023 Military Junta Troop launched airstrikes and dropped bombs in Bago Region, Sagaing Region and Kayah State from October 1st to 7th. Heavy artillery attacks from Military Junta ships killed a civilian from Yesagyo Township, Magway Region on October 1st. Junta […]
Prospects for peace in Burma feel distant for civilians living in conflict-affected parts of the country. With over one million people displaced, the sentiment on the ground is discouraging. Battles waged by the military junta happen daily and routinely force people from their homes. The conditions have deprived children and youth of education, and families […]
The investigation also found that the military has imposed wide-reaching restrictions on basic civil liberties and trade union rights since seizing power A United Nations investigation into Myanmar on Wednesday urged the country’s military rulers to end forced labour in the army and to halt all violence against trade unionists. A probe launched by the […]
The regime’s indiscriminate targeting of schools and other civilian sites has resulted in large numbers of child casualties, according to the shadow government Myanmar’s military junta has killed nearly 500 children since seizing power more than two and a half years ago, according to the country’s shadow National Unity Government (NUG). At an online press […]
Criticising the UN’s Myanmar Country Team for accepting the junta as ‘de facto authorities,’ international experts urge direct coordination with the publicly mandated government, ethnic governance bodies and other resistance groups to deliver aid The Special Advisory Council for Myanmar (SAC-M) criticised the United Nations (UN) for “failing” the people of Myanmar through its dealings […]