Locals describe the capture of villagers—including children—by junta soldiers who force them to serve as human shields and porters before they are murdered Junta forces reportedly killed 10 villagers, including two children, in recent days in Sagaing Region, where the military continues to carry out fierce assaults on the civilian population in an attempt to […]
Myanmar troops swap slaughter stories Evidence of atrocities revealed on a soldier’s lost cell phone Editor’s note: This story contains images and descriptions that some readers may find disturbing. Reader discretion is advised. By Khin Maung Soe and Nayrein Kyaw for RFA Burmese Two armed men stand behind a tangle of bodies leaking blood which […]
Dr Aung Aung Tun is actually alive and being held in Obo Prison along with his sister, Myanmar Now has learned A clinic owner rumoured to have been killed while under interrogation after his arrest more than a month ago is actually being held in Mandalay’s Obo Prison, according to a source close to his […]
The junta’s decision to move forward with the death penalty is inhumane and unlawful. Justice has been delayed and denied in #Myanmar. As more lives are lost to military violence, the urgency for the international community to respond becomes even greater. Weekly Update:
The women said a fellow prisoner’s miscarriage was the result of guard negligence. Authorities in Myanmar’s notorious Insein Prison have cut off the drinking water supply to the cells of female political prisoners who protested poor living conditions in the facility after a fellow inmate who was denied medical treatment suffered a miscarriage, sources said […]
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.