Entries by ND Burma

Monasteries, churches are not spared from Myanmar’s conflict

About 100 structures have been fully or partially destroyed during the chaos that followed the 2021 coup. Nearly 100 religious buildings have been destroyed in two regions and two states in Myanmar more than a year after the military seized control from the elected government and plunged the Southeast Asian country into chaos and violence, […]

Woman abducted by junta with 3-year-old son accused of ties to urban guerrilla forces

Information obtained from the woman while in detention led to the arrest of resistance force members allegedly planning bombings during Thingyan, the Myanmar military claims Myanmar’s military council announced the arrest of 15 alleged members of anti-junta resistance forces in Yangon as well as the confiscation of several weapons in a statement published on Thursday. […]

Human Rights Situation in Myanmar 4 April 10 April 2022

Weekly Update: Atrocity Crimes in Myanmar Must be Met with Consequences Since 1 Feb 2021, the Myanmar military has boasted their flagrant disregard for rule of law & human rights as they continue to wage a war against the people. Their failed bid for power must be met with consequences. International repercussions long over-due. Download

Myanmar Health Care Workers are Not a Target

The human rights situation in Myanmar is becoming increasingly unstable. Hundreds of thousands have been  forcibly displaced. Among those trying to help injured civilians, protesters and combatants from the People’s Defense  Forces are medical professionals. They too have been targeted by the Myanmar  junta who have used their weapons to destroy clinics and confiscate medicine. In […]

Weekly Update : Human Rights Situation (28 March to 3 April)

Young people in Myanmar who protested against the junta are facing increasingly unjust punishments in military backed courts. Daily reports of the growing numbers of arrests and those who have ‘disappeared’ have only contributed to ongoing worries and concerns.  

Myanmar military abducts, tortures 11-year-old boy in Mandalay

The boy was among four locals from Myitnge Township beaten in junta custody after they were accused of supporting the armed resistance Junta soldiers arrested and abused four people from Mandalay Region’s Myitnge Township over the weekend, accusing them of supporting the anti-dictatorship People’s Defence Force (PDF), locals said. Among them was Moe Lun, age […]

US declares Myanmar’s 2017 atrocities against Rohingya a ‘genocide’

The move will bring greater scrutiny on the Myanmar military, says a Rohingya activist. UPDATED at 4:30 P.M. EDT on 2022-03-21 The United States has declared as a genocide the Myanmar military’s 2017 deadly crackdown against the Rohingya Muslim minority that killed thousands and forced an exodus to neighboring Bangladesh, Secretary of State Antony Blinken […]

Military council files terrorism charges against student activists to ‘instil fear’

The targeted individuals were helping families of detained students send them care packages in prison, says the chair of Myanmar’s student union coalition The All Burma Federation of Student Unions (ABFSU) confirmed that three of their Mandalay-based members were charged last Friday by the junta with violating Myanmar’s counterterrorism law. The individuals, who were arrested […]

Myanmar junta sentences two journalists to two-year prison terms

Journalists from Kamayut Media and Mizzima are convicted of incitement one year after their arrests in a continued nationwide crackdown on news organisations Junta courts in Naypyitaw and inside Yangon’s Insein Prison sentenced two journalists to two years in prison this week, one year after their arrests and charges of violating Section 505a of the […]