The Myin Daung village defence team reportedly encountered soldiers preparing to raid another village in western Khin-U Township, Sagaing Region, and lost five members in the ensuing fight Five members of a local defence force were killed and five villagers went missing after the resistance fighters fought an advancing military column in southern Sagaing Region […]
Staff from the facility, set up in 2014 as a rural development initiative of the Japanese government, are arrested by the military and the building left riddled with bullet holes More than 20 people were taken hostage this week in a Myanmar army raid on a Magway Region health facility once built by the Japanese […]
Military Junta troops targeted the civilians and launched an airstrike from April 8 to 14 in Sagaing Region, Chin, and Kayin States. Many civilians including children and pregnant women died in the airstrikes and the Military is still committing war crimes. The military also used over 30 civilians as human shields in Myingyan Township, Mandalay […]
Around 70 residents remain in hiding after the April 11 assault. The death toll from a military airstrike in northern Myanmar’s Sagaing region on civilians has nearly doubled to an estimated 200 people, a local member of the People’s Defense Forces told Radio Free Asia on Monday. During the April 11 attack, jets bombed and […]
Survivors of a junta aerial attack on the Sagaing Region village of Pa Zi Gyi tell Myanmar Now of the horrors they beheld in its aftermath, and of the children they lost Seconds after recognising the sound of a fighter jet overhead, U Myo remembers an explosion he could compare only to thunder. The 57-year-old […]
The junta sent in jets and an attack helicopter during the opening of a local administrative office, locals say. UPDATED at 4:46 p.m. EDT on April 11, 2023 As many as 100 villagers have been killed and more than 50 injured when junta aircraft bombed a crowd of hundreds attending an office opening ceremony in […]
Many of the victims were members of the public who were offered food as part of the ceremony, which also coincided with the start of Myanmar’s traditional New Year’s celebrations As many as 80 people, including children, are feared dead following an air raid carried out by Myanmar’s military in Sagaing Region’s Kanbalu Township early […]
As of April 6, 2023, the junta has sentenced 151 other individuals to death, according to AAPP’s documentation. Notably, of the 34 pro-democracy supporters whose ages are known, 58.8 percent are individuals under 30 years old, showing the junta’s targeted use of the death penalty against youth actively opposing the military coup and supporting the […]
Military Junta troops launched an airstrike and dropped bombs in Sagaing Region, Magway Region, Kayin State, and Kachin State from April 1st to 7th. They burnt and killed 9 Civilians within a week. Thwaythoke, The Military’s backed militia killed a person from Chanmyathasi and 4 persons from Aungmyaythasan, Mandalay Region. 15 political prisoners were beaten […]
Junta troops attacked 17 villages with ground troops, heavy artillery and airstrikes. Heavy artillery began raining from the sky onto villages to the north of Kale township on March 30, touching off what would become a week of fierce fighting between junta troops and local armed opposition forces. By the time the dust had settled […]