Entries by ND Burma
Sagaing Region Internet Shut Down Amid Myanmar Junta Raids
Myanmar’s regime has cut internet access across Sagaing Region where armed resistance to the junta is strong. It is also launching airstrikes and torching villages. Residents said the internet was down across the sprawling region’s 34 townships other than four towns and cities, denying news about the fighting. A Tabayin resident told The Irrawaddy that […]
Villages go up in flames as junta troops, militias continue central Myanmar raids
Junta soldiers and Pyu Saw Htee members ambush two villages in Magway Region’s Pauk Township, displacing residents and burning hundreds of homes. A combined force of Myanmar army soldiers and members of the junta-allied Pyu Saw Htee militias raided two villages in central Myanmar and torched more than 200 homes this week, locals said. The […]
Myanmar Junta Planes Bomb Village Sheltering Displaced Karenni Civilians
Myanmar regime forces on Sunday used aircraft to bomb Lo Bar Kho Village in Demoso Township, Kayah State, where around 3,000 internally displaced civilians (IDPs) are sheltering. Junta airplanes dropped two bombs on the village on Sunday morning, with one falling near a clinic opened for the refugees, destroying a few buildings nearby. A resistance […]
Myanmar junta troops said to have held preschoolers as ‘human shields’ after raid
A military spokesman said children were detained for their protection during clashes with opposition forces. Anti-junta paramilitaries on Monday freed some 100 preschool children and other residents they say Myanmar’s military had detained as “human shields” against a counterattack in a village in embattled Sagaing region’s Yinmabin township. Residents of Yinmabin’s Chin Pone village told […]
Junta soldiers burn hundreds of homes and murder civilians during rampages in upper Myanmar
One of those killed was found with severe injuries on his body, suggesting he had been tortured, a local resident said Junta soldiers killed civilians, burned hundreds of homes, and destroyed food stocks during attacks on villages in Sagaing Region last week, locals said. Troops entered Kan Lay Kone village in Taze Township on February […]
Weekly Update Human Rights Satiation in Myanmar 21 February – 27 February 2022
Clear evidence of the power of the Spring Revolution can be seen in the momentum of ongoing protest and campaigning efforts. Another nationwide protest named the ‘Six Twos Revolution’ was organized to mark the anniversary of the 2021 ‘Five-Twos Revolution,’ held last year as part of a nationwide general strike. Protesters proudly held posters and […]
Military bombs civilian area in Karenni State’s Demoso Township, killing three people
The targeted villages are near the town of Nan Mei Khon and along the strategic road connecting two resistance strongholds: Demoso and Moebye Three civilians were killed and five were injured after the Myanmar army attacked two villages in Karenni State’s Demoso Township from the air on Wednesday evening. A military jet bombed Dung Ka […]
Press Statement: Myanmar CSOs meet with the UN Special Envoy
Reiterates CSOs rejection of power-sharing with the military junta, offers recommendations to UNSE On 21 February, representatives of 20 Myanmar civil society organizations (CSOs) met with the UN Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Myanmar. The meeting followed a joint statement issued by 247 CSOs in response to the UN Special Envoy’s (UNSE’s) interview with the Channel News Asia (CNA). […]
Statement on Women with Gun-shoot Wound by Junta and call for provide medical treatment Inbox
Khin Kay Khine, who was working at the backyard of her house, was shot in the abdomen by a stray bullet fired indiscriminately by troops of the military council who entered into Winkapaw village, Taung Pyauk area in Thayetchaung township, Dawei district, Tanintharyi Region, in the evening of 3 November 2021. Fortunately, Khin Kay Khine […]