The boy was hit as he and his family were fleeing an approaching military convoy travelling along the Mindat-Matupi road A 13-year-old boy was killed in Chin State’s Mindat Township on Monday after he was hit by an artillery shell fired by regime forces travelling on the Mindat-Matupi road, according to local resistance sources. The […]
9 February 2022 For Immediate Release Today, the Karenni Human Rights Group (KnHRG) and the Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma (ND-Burma) with supporting data from a local Karenni women’s organization release a new briefing paper, “The World Must Know,” which finds evidence of crimes against humanity and war crimes perpetrated by the military […]
The Myanmar Army has a long history of brutal repression. For over 70-years, civil war has been raging in the country. Despite long-standing attempts for dialogue with the international community, civil society organizations, and ethnic revolution groups (EROs), the regime has consistently failed to listen to the voices of those existing outside of its deeply […]
8 February 2022 The Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) condemns the ongoing arbitrary arrest of innocent civilians and subsequent outlandish sentencing of political prisoners by the military junta. By the end of 2021, over 2500 people in target areas of Mon State, Karen State and Tanintharyi regions were unlawfully arrested and detained. Over the […]
On 1 February 2021, a somber anniversary marked 365 days since the unlawful coup. Throughout the year, the regime used dozens of tactics to attempt to silence and squander the resistance movement. No matter the levels of extreme violence deployed, the spirit of the Spring Revolution has continued to persist in defiance of the junta. […]
Pro-junta forces have torched more than 1,000 homes in four villages over five days. Junta troops and pro-military militiamen in Myanmar’s Sagaing region burned down more than 700 homes in Pale township over the weekend, according to sources, amid a scorched earth campaign that has left some 1,100 buildings destroyed in four neighboring villages over […]
The revelation comes as Telenor prepares to finalise the sale of its Myanmar unit to a military-linked company later this month Norwegian telecoms company Telenor, a leading operator in Myanmar serving more than 18 million users, has complied with multiple requests from the military junta for sensitive user data since last year’s coup, according to […]
The mob also looted several villages and carried the stolen goods away on several trucks, locals said Junta soldiers and Pyu Saw Htee militiamen murdered four people, burned hundreds of homes, and looted villages during a three-day rampage through Sagaing Region’s Pale Township last week, local residents have told Myanmar Now. The mob of about […]
Raise alarm at her misinterpretation that the “military are in control” 247 civil society organizations reject UN Special Envoy, Dr Noeleen Heyzer’s, proposal that those defying the military must negotiate a power sharing as a solution to the current political, human rights and humanitarian crisis created by the terrorist military junta. In an interview with Channel News […]
Civil Society organizations reject UN Special Envoy’s proposal of “power sharing” Raise alarm at her misinterpretation that the “military are in control” 247 civil society organizations reject UN Special Envoy, Dr Noeleen Heyzer’s, proposal that those defying the military must negotiate a power sharing as a solution to the current political, human rights and humanitarian […]