Fighting between resistance groups and the junta’s forces is intensifying near the border with Kayah State A woman died and five others including children were injured as junta soldiers fired artillery shells at the town of Moebye in southern Shan State over the weekend, a local rescue group has said. Sixty-year-old Mu Lawm was killed […]
One man was shot while watering crops and another appears to have been tortured and executed after he was detained Junta soldiers and their armed supporters murdered four civilians on Friday during raids on two villages in Sagaing Region’s Khin-U Township that were aimed at flushing out resistance fighters, witnesses told Myanmar Now. About 10 […]
Myanmar’s junta seized veteran political activist Ko Jimmy, also known as Kyaw Min Yu, a prominent 88 Generation Student leader, on Saturday night in Yangon for his anti-regime activism. Ko Jimmy, 52, sustained a severe head injury during the arrest at Pin Lon Hnin Si villa in North Dagon Township. His wife Daw Nilar Thein, […]
Min Min Soe’s father says his son was innocent and that Air KBZ had made ‘senseless accusations’ A man died in Yangon’s Insein Prison on Sunday after he was detained for allegedly tampering with three passenger planes owned by Air KBZ, where he worked as an avionic engineer. Min Min Soe, 34, was arrested on […]
The decades of lies, denials and fabrications of the truth are catching up with the Myanmar junta. What the people on the ground have known and vocalized to the international community is being amplified in all diplomatic chambers. On October 15th, Southeast Asian foreign ministers met for an emergency meeting on potentially barring junta-military chief, Senior General […]
Fenster had stopped working with Myanmar Now seven months before the outlet was banned for its coverage of the coup An additional charge that was laid against detained American journalist Danny Fenster earlier this month is related to his work with Myanmar Now before the military coup in February, according to his lawyer. Fenster, who […]
Press Statement on 18 October Junta Announcement The timing of todays’ statement is not coincidental. Coming days after the terrorist-like SAC’s rightful rejection by ASEAN. Since the coup, documentation by AAPP, civil society and independent media has shown that junta “mass prison releases” have never been of the sort. In fact, the military uses these […]
According to eyewitnesses, the Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO) office near the intersection in Hakha township, Chin State was raided by military council troops at 2:45 pm on 15 October. A local resident said that when the military council troops raided the CHRO office, there were no staff in the office and some items were […]
Myanmar’s military regime has officially turned down the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) special envoy’s request to meet detained leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the junta’s Foreign Ministry said. Erywan Yusof, Brunei’s Second Minister of Foreign Affairs, was appointed as ASEAN’s special envoy to Myanmar in August in an effort to mediate the […]
A grave milestone was passed in September – by the end of the month, almost 100 people had been killed by the senseless violence of the Myanmar junta, including a toddler and several seniors. ND-Burma members are risking their lives to document the ongoing human rights abuses which are being carried out by the regime. The Chin […]