It was not clear if the six victims were local people or civilians from elsewhere who had been taken hostage as human shields Local defence forces in Sagaing Region’s Ye-U Township say they found the charred remains of six people on Thursday in a village that had been occupied by regime forces for two days. […]
Documenting abuses remains a key way for the country to move forward, even as the military tries to drag it back to the past Democracy in Myanmar has been sabotaged by the country’s military junta. In its place, the regime has unleashed a lawless campaign of violence against an innocent civilian population. Thousands have been […]
The UN Special Envoy for Myanmar was blocked by the country’s junta from attending a meeting on humanitarian assistance for the Southeast Asian nation, which has been devastated by last year’s military coup. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Friday held the meeting in Cambodia to discuss plans to deliver aid to Myanmar. The […]
Press freedom is important and fundamental to a flourishing democracy. Under the Myanmar military, not only has the space for freedom of expression been stifled but it’s been marred with deadly and severe consequences.
The military has been systematically destroying villages in Sagaing Region and Chin State to ‘discourage people from taking part in the revolution,’ locals say The military burned down more than 1,000 homes in villages in townships across Sagaing Region and Chin State during the first week of May alone, according to local sources. On the […]
Local residents said the victims—eight men and one woman—had all been lined up and shot in the head Residents of Oak Pho, a village in Sagaing Region’s Budalin Township, say that regime forces executed nine people sheltering at a local Buddhist meditation centre on Monday. The victims, some of whom were elderly, had been displaced […]
The surgeon was in the middle of operating on a patient when the squad of soldiers entered the hospital looking for doctors to arrest. A receptionist alerted the surgeon, Dr. Kyaw Swar, but it was too late for him to stop the procedure. Hoping to avoid attention, he ran out into the hallway and collected […]
The son of one of the two women was also detained in the Kayin State capital Hpa-an last week Two women belonging to a political organization formed by veterans of the 1988 pro-democracy uprising were arrested in the Kayin (Karen) State capital Hpa-an last week and have not been heard from since, according to their […]
Myanmar’s junta forces had burned down at least 11,417 civilian houses at 296 locations by the end of April with Sagaing Region suffering the heaviest damage, according to the independent research group Data for Myanmar. There are 10 states and regions where houses have been burned down by regime forces with Sagaing, Magwe, Chin and […]
Women and children have suffered impacts of the failed coup. The systematic oppression of vulnerable groups exacerbates long held gaps in flawed laws which have long failed to adequately meet the needs of women and children. They must be protected. More in the weekly update