After the release of the report by UN HRC last week, it is abundantly clear that there is more than enough evidence to hold the military junta accountable for their crimes. There is no more time to wait. It is time for action & consequences. More in weekly update Download in English: http://ow.ly/KQVt50InRJS
Residents say the monks are helping to form the groups and even receiving weapons training. Ultranationalist Buddhist clergymen, including outspoken monk Wirathu, are throwing their support behind the pro-junta Pyu Saw Htee militia in its fight against prodemocracy paramilitaries in Myanmar’s Sagaing region, including by undergoing weapons training clad in saffron robes, residents said Monday. […]
The KNDF withdrew from Daw Ngan Kar under a barrage of missiles, airstrikes and artillery fire, but have vowed to retake the neighbourhood The junta’s forces have taken control of a key neighbourhood along a strategically important road in Karenni State that leads to Naypyitaw, forcing resistance fighters to retreat under a barrage of missiles, […]
In Sagaing Region, women who have lost their homes to brutal attacks by junta forces continue to defy their oppressors Charred wood and blackened sheets of corrugated metal were all that welcomed Hla May* when she returned to her home. The air in her village was still thick with the acrid smell of smoke. And […]
Two children and nine senior citizens were killed earlier this week by junta artillery strikes and raids in Sagaing Region’s Yinmabin Township. Around 100 regime soldiers raided Letpan Taw Village in Yinmabin on Tuesday, firing artillery rounds which killed ten people sheltering in the village monastery, said residents. “They died after they [junta troops] fired […]
Women in Myanmar have shown their strength over decades of armed conflict. They have also reshaped a landscape of patriarchal values that have long attempted to shape the country. Advocates have been calling for stronger legislation to protect women from physical and emotional violence, but there has been a disappointing lack of desire to pass […]
The Human Rights Foundation of Monland, the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand and The Network for Human Rights Documentation Call for Justice for Women in Myanmar in New Joint Briefing Paper, “Resist” 8 March 20222 For Immediate Release Today, on International Women’s Day, the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM), the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand […]
A series of attacks carried out on Saturday reduced one village to ashes, sources in Sagaing Region’s Khin-U Township reported A village in Sagaing Region’s Khin-U Township was almost completely incinerated on Saturday as regime forces carried out a series of unprovoked attacks in the area over the weekend, according to local sources. In a […]
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 […]