More locals, junta troops and PDF members are believed to have been killed in fighting around Myaing Township. Two days of fighting between junta troops and People’s Defense Forces (PDFs) in central Myanmar’s Magway region ended with the grisly discovery of charred bodies scattered across a village. Locals told RFA that at least six burned […]
The resistance is thriving but they need more support. Upon the rise of pro-junta militias is a greater threat to civilian safety and security which must be met with urgency. The National Unity Government must be supported with funds which would ensure PDFs and EROs are well equipped as they defend their communities and fight […]
Like other attorneys targeted before them, they were arrested after leaving their clients’ hearings in Obo Prison Junta authorities arrested three more Mandalay-based lawyers representing political detainees on Wednesday as they returned home from court hearings inside the city’s prison, according to sources within the local legal network. The detainees—identified as Tin Win Aung, his […]
Eyewitnesses to the brutal killing of 28 civilians in Ye-U Township recall a junta attack that was found to have been documented by the soldiers themselves No one will stay in the eastern parts of Mone Taing Pin anymore, where locals claim that dogs howl without provocation, putrid odours materialise and vanish, and shadowy figures […]
The group was detained while enroute to receive medical training in a nearby township. Junta troops in Myanmar’s embattled Sagaing region captured and killed nine unarmed civilians, including four teenagers, as they traveled to receive medical training, according to an official from their group and a family member of one of the victims. The nine […]
The Honorable Penny WongMinister for Foreign Affairs,Parliament House,Canberra ACT 2600 29 June 2022 Open letter to Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong from 688 civil society organisations Re: Urgent change of course and action needed on Myanmar Dear Minister Penny Wong, We, the undersigned 688 Burma/Myanmar, regional and international civil society organisations, welcome your appointment as […]
Myanmar’s military regime has tortured to death at least 95 people in interrogation centers and prisons since last year’s coup, said rights groups who called on the international community to help end the junta’s atrocities. Among those tortured to death were National League for Democracy officials and members, student activists, young resistance fighters, peaceful protesters, […]
Myanmar’s military regime has tortured to death at least 95 people in interrogation centers and prisons since last year’s coup, said rights groups who called on the international community to help end the junta’s atrocities. Among those tortured to death were National League for Democracy officials and members, student activists, young resistance fighters, peaceful protesters, […]
#ASEAN has failed the people of #Myanmar – again. ASEAN has had multiple opportunities to lead with integrity and discipline while responding to the multiple crises in Myanmar. Instead, they have turned their backs on principles of democracy and made excuses for the authoritarian tyrants who single-handedly derailed prospects for peace in the country.
Locals say a local pro-junta militia was also involved in the killings in Dawei district. Two people in their sixties were tied up and shot dead at close range by junta forces and their allies at a village in Myanmar’s southwestern Tanintharyi region on Sunday as revenge attacks by troops and their militia allies increase. […]