The Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) has released a new report, “Voting Under the Barrel of a Gun: A Country at War, Not at the Polls.” The findings show that the junta’s planned election is not a democratic process but a violent campaign to manufacture legitimacy while communities face ongoing attacks and intimidation. Launched […]
We, the undersigned trade unions, civil society, and human rights organisations from across the ASEAN region and international community, issue this urgent and unequivocal call to our governments ahead of the upcoming ASEAN Summit: outrightly reject the Myanmar military junta’s planned sham election. Anything less would be a betrayal of the people of Myanmar and […]
Before the ASEAN summit, ND-Burma delegates met with the Malaysia Human Rights Commission (SUHAKAM) to discuss the human rights situation in Myanmar, to protect refugee and migrant workers in Malaysia and to protest against the election by the military dictators. On 15 October 2025, SUHAKAM, led by Chairman Dato’ Seri Mohd Hishamudin Yunus and Commissioner […]
Ta’ang Women’s Organization Last night, October 20, Mongngawt Township, controlled by the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (PSLF/TNLA), was reportedly targeted by airstrikes. At 8 p.m., the Mongngawt Myoma Market was airstrike bombed by the Terror military council, killing 2 locals, injuring 2 others, and burning down at least 10 houses and 5 shops, according to […]
The Myanmar military junta has escalated its aerial attacks in Shan State, carrying out airstrikes on at least four townships — Mongkut (Mogok), Namtu, Hsipaw, Mantong, and Namhsan — during the first week of October. The strikes resulted in civilian casualties and widespread damage, according to reports from locals and the Ta’ang (Palaung) National Liberation […]
The Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma ReleasesBombs to Ballots: Myanmar Junta’s Bloody Race for Recognition 1st October 2025 For Immediate Release Today, the Network for Human Rights Documentation-Burma (ND-Burma) releases its latest briefing paper, Bombs to Ballots: Myanmar Junta’s Bloody Race for Recognition, which calls for the condemnation and immediate rejection of the […]
Exposing the junta’s campaign of terror to stage a sham election As the junta continues to illegally and unjustly expand their military through forced conscription, the upcoming 2025 sham election is yet another calculated attempt by the junta to bolster its legitimacy. Civil society organizations have widely condemned these efforts, describing them as ‘political theatre’[1] […]
A chorus of condemnation both from Myanmar and abroad has greeted the junta’s bombing of two private schools in Rakhine state’s Kyauktaw Township on Sept. 12 that killed 20 youngsters. The ethnic United League of Arakan (ULA) on Saturday blasted the arial massacre as a war crime. The ULA, whose armed wing the Arakan Army […]
A Myanmar junta airstrike on a private boarding school in Thayat Tabin Village in Rakhine State’s Kyauktaw Township on Friday killed 22 people, mostly schoolchildren, according to local media reports and residents. Kyauktaw town has been controlled by the AA since January last year. During the airstrike, which occurred at 1 a.m., two 500-pound bombs […]
The Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma Releases‘Solidarity in the Struggle,’ An Overview of the Human Rights Situation in Burma:January – June 2025 3 September 2025 For Immediate Release Today, the Network for Human Rights Documentation-Burma releases its first biannual report of the year, ‘Solidarity in the Struggle,’ which documents the human rights situation […]