Acquaintances questioned the prison authorities’ claim that the 25-year-old died of pneumonia and their reasons for failing to return his body to relatives Thayarwaddy Prison authorities have not given the body of a political prisoner to his family after telling them he died of pneumonia last week, leaving the true cause of death in doubt. […]
An elderly woman with limited mobility died in a fire started by junta troops after they triggered mines set out by resistance fighters After incurring several casualties from resistance forces’ explosive devices, a military column torched a village in Ye-U Township, Sagaing Region, killing a 91-year-old woman who was unable to escape the fire. At […]
Military junta troops launched an airstrike and dropped bombs in Myawaddy, Kayin State and Demoso, Kayah State from May 15th to 21st. Junta troops also launched an airstrike, dropped bombs and cut off the Tele communication and mobile data in Mawlite Township, Sagaing Region.Military Junta troops arrested about 60 civilians including the children from Kani […]
Someday, when we have a reliable judicial system in the country or access to the international judicial system, we will use our documentation to seek justice for the victims of human rights violations, and achieve accountability,” says Han Gyi, a coordinator at the Network for Human Rights Documentation. Also known as ND-Burma, the organization has […]
Junta says 100 Rohingya died from Cyclone Mocha, but others have counted more than 400. Myanmar’s junta says that 100 Rohingya died from last weekend’s Cyclone Mocha – and that news outlets that say it’s higher will be sued. The shadow National Unity Government, made up of former parliamentarians and opponents of the military, which […]
A civilian died and civilian houses were burnt by the Military junta troops launched an airstrike and dropped bombs in Mon State, Chin State, and Sagaing Region from May 8th to 14th.Military junta troops committed a massacre by burning 18 civilians from Nyaung Pentha village in Bago Region. Over 30 civilians were arrested as human […]
U.N. had warned of ‘a nightmare scenario’ in Bay of Bengal region home to crowded refugee camps. Powerful Cyclone Mocha made landfall in western Myanmar Sunday, killing six people and bringing down trees, residents said, as humanitarian agencies warned of a severe impact on “hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people.” The cyclone had earlier on […]
A video shared widely on social media shows a man suspended by rope from a tree while SSPP soldiers watch him squirm to avoid being burnt by a fire on the ground below The Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) is carrying out an internal investigation after a video shared widely on social media […]
The death toll could rise because the area is ‘now like a battlefield,’ ethnic armed group says. Myanmar troops burned alive 19 civilians, including eight minors, on Wednesday, relatives of the dead, witnesses and a spokesman for the shadow government said, in the latest atrocity committed by junta soldiers in the country’s civil war. The […]
No one was injured in the attack on a high school in Sagaing Region on Tuesday, but casualties were reported in similar incidents in Mon and Chin states earlier in the week The junta air force struck a high school operating under the publicly mandated National Unity Government in Sagaing Region, as well as resistance […]