Recent incidents inside some of Myanmar’s most notorious prisons point to harsher repression and deepening tensions Two of Myanmar’s most notorious detention centres carried out brutal crackdowns on political prisoners over the past week, signalling the junta’s determination to impose harsh penalties on detained dissidents. On Sunday, two political prisoners were beaten to death and […]
Executing veteran activist Ko Jimmy and NLD MP Phyo Zayar Thaw will only add fuel to the fire already engulfing the country, say regime opponents The Myanmar regime’s announcement on Friday that it will go ahead with the execution of two prominent leaders accused of treason and terrorism was greeted over the weekend by a […]
June 6, 2022 On June 3, 2021, the junta council announced they intend to carry out the execution of death row detainees Jimmy (aka Kyaw Min Yu), Phyo Zayar Thaw, Hla Myo Aung and Aung Thura Zaw, heretofore given by military courts. Though announced, information regarding the status of the military court, location of […]
Myanmar’s junta has stated that it will execute a former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, a prominent democracy activist and two civil society members in the country’s first judicial executions in the last few decades. A military panel sentenced four people, including former National League for Democracy (NLD) Member of Parliament Phyo Zeya […]
#HRVs in Eastern Myanmar are depriving civilians of their humanity. As revealed last week in reports by @amnesty @HURFOM and @khrg, the incessant violence against innocent people by the military junta must end. Humanitarian aid needs to be permitted through trusted orgs & human rights defenders.
A local source described the column behind the raid as possessing advanced weaponry and speculated that it may be a ‘special operations force’ moving through the region A junta attack on a village in Sagaing Region’s Wetlet Township on June 2 left some 97 homes burned and three people dead, according to locals who spoke […]
The boy and his mother and grandfather died after junta troops fired on their home during a clash with a local defence force An eight-year-old child was killed along with his mother and grandfather when an artillery shell fired by junta troops hit their home in central Sagaing Region on Wednesday. The victims were identified […]
Humanitarian aid could be delivered through existing cross-border channels to ethnic administrations and community-based organisations, advocates of the process say A Kachin civil society organisation has called on international humanitarian agencies to ensure that no aid is delivered through the military regime that ousted the elected civilian government in a coup early last year. The […]
The humanitarian crisis in #Myanmar is worsening every day. As the monsoon rains begin, the plight of civilians desperately attempting to reach safety has become more dangerous and high-risk. The international community must respond to the humanitarian crisis with funds through cross-border aid actors and organizations and through legitimate stakeholders including the National Unity Government.
Myanmar’s regime launched airstrikes on and torched 10 villages in five townships in Sagaing Region over the weekend, displacing thousands of civilians. Airstrikes targeted Myaung Township on Sunday after people’s defense forces (PDFs) attacked junta troops at Ta Ma Say village. Ko Nway Oo, the head of the Civil Defense Security Organization Myaung, said a […]