BANGKOK, THAILAND — Indonesia is under increasing pressure to use its new one-year role as chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to isolate Myanmar’s junta in a bid to end its bloody crackdown on pro-democracy opponents, analysts say. But experts say reaching a consensus among the regional bloc remains a challenge in […]
“Weekly Social Media Monitoring by Spring Archive” (January 8 to 14, 2023) Military air-strike 6 times at Chin, Kayin and Shan state from January 8 to 14. They also arrested at least 20 people of CDM staffs and political activists in Hsipaw, Lashio, Kyaukme in North Shan state. Military junta was announced again by the […]
ASEAN Countries Should Adopt Tough Sanctions against Junta (Jakarta) – Myanmar’s junta has been responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity since the military coup in February 2021, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2023. The security forces have been implicated in mass killings, arbitrary arrests and detention, torture, sexual violence, and attacks on civilians in conflict […]
The remains of most of the victims, including two elderly men in their 80s, were burned almost beyond recognition Regime forces have killed at least seven civilians since late last week in a series of raids targeting villages in central Sagaing Region, according to local sources. On January 6, a junta column of around 100 […]
The wife of a political prisoner connected to the outbreak of violence at the prison late last week has also reportedly been targeted Political detainees inside Pathein Prison in Ayeyarwady Region have been hit by new restrictions following a recent outbreak of violence, according to a source close to the prison. On Monday, prison guards […]
2023 Jan 1 to 7 (EE)Infogram
Date; Jan 8, 2023 AAPP issues this statement to bring attention to the gross human rights violations perpetrated by the military junta. On the evening of January 5, 2023, a dispute occurred between prison authorities and political prisoners. Eight political prisoners were called out and brought from the compound. Their hands were tied behind their […]
Political prisoners had protested after guards beat an inmate found with a mobile phone. Prison guards in Myanmar on Friday shot and killed a political prisoner and wounded more than 60 other people – including eight critically – after inmates protested their beating of the victim a day earlier, Radio Free Asia has learned. The […]
Nearly 100 people have been handed the death penalty for opposing the regime that seized power nearly two years ago A junta-controlled court sentenced a primary school teacher to death last Friday for his alleged role in the killing of a suspected military informant in Ayeyarwady Region’s Myan Aung Township more than a year ago, […]