Entries by ND Burma

Widespread Myanmar water shortage kills scores of people

Nearly 50 villages in the west are impacted by this year’s intense hot season, residents said. Nearly 50 villages in western Myanmar are facing shortages of water, residents told RFA on Tuesday, after the hot season brought record high temperatures across the region. Ponds and small lakes across Rakhine State are drying up, leaving residents with limited […]

Fifteen killed in regime airstrike on Magway’s Saw Township

Residents in Magway Region’s Saw Township said that at least 15 civilians, including children and a monk, were killed and 27 others were injured in an airstrike carried out by the military on a monastery in Ahkyipanpalun village of Kyauktu town on Thursday.  “The monastery was engulfed in flames. They unleashed a barrage of 500-pound […]

Human Rights Situation weekly update (May 1 to 7, 2024)

Human Rights Violations took place in States and Regions from May 1 to 7, 2024 Military Junta Troop launched airstrikes and dropped bombs in the Sagaing Region, Magway Region, Tanintharyi Region, Bago Region, Kachin State, and Rakhine State from May 1st to 7th. The Military Junta prohibited and blocked working permission in foreign countries on […]

‘Apocalypse’: Myanmar Doctor Describes Deadly Junta Airstrike on Mindat Hospital

“Apocalypse” is how a doctor has described the scene when Myanmar junta fighter jets used four 500lb bombs to destroy a hospital in Chin State’s Mindat Township on April 25, killing five patients and injuring 15 others. Dr. Shao* was among anti-regime medics who helped run Wun Ma Thuu Hospital, which provided free treatment to civilians injured in junta […]

What is Transitional Justice (Cartoon Animation)

“အသွင်ကူးပြောင်းရေးဆိုင်ရာတရားမျှတမှုဆိုတာ (What is Transitional Justice) ” ကို ND-Burma မှ Animation အနေဖြင့် ယနေ့ ထုတ်ပြန်လိုက်သည်။အသွင်ကူးပြောင်းရေးဆိုင်ရာတရားမျှတမှုဆိုတာ (What is Transitional Justice)-အာဏာရှင်စနစ်မှ ဒီမိုကရေစီသို့ ကူးပြောင်းရာ တွင်လည်းကောင်း၊ ပြည်တွင်းစစ်ပဋိပက္ခများချုပ်ငြိမ်း၍ ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေး ဖြစ်စဉ်သို့ကူးပြောင်းရာတွင်လည်းကောင်း၊ ခွဲခြားဖိနှိပ်သည့် စနစ်မှ ခွဲခြားမှုကင်းမဲ့ပြီး ဒီမိုကရေစီနှင့် လူ့အခွင့်အရေး ရှိသည့် စနစ်သို့ကူးပြောင်းရာတွင် လည်းကောင်း အတိတ်ကာလတွင် နေရာအနှံ့ စနစ်တကျ ရည်ရွယ်ချက်ရှိရှိကျူးလွန်းခဲ့သော လူ့အခွင့်အရေး ချိုးဖောက်မှု ဖြစ်စဉ်များအား ပြန်လည်ဖော်ထုတ်မှတ်တမ်းတင်ပြီး ထိခိုက်နစ်နာ ခံစားခဲ့ရသူများအတွက် တရားမျှတမှု ရရှိအောင်ကိုင်တွယ်ဖြေရှင်းသည့် လုပ်ငန်းစဉ်ဖြစ်သည်။အဓိက ရည်ရွယ်ချက်မှာ – လူ့အခွင့်အရေးချိုးဖောက်မှုများအတွက် –အမှန်တရားပေါ်ပေါက်ရေး(Truth)၊ တရားမျှတမှုဖော်ဆောင်ရေး (Justice)၊ ဂုဏ်သိက္ခာမြှင့်တင်ရေး Dignity၊ ပြန်လည်ကုစားပေးလျော်ရေး (Reparation)၊ ပြစ်ဒဏ်ပေးခံရခြင်းမှကင်းလွတ်နေသည့် […]

Human Rights Situation weekly update (April 22 to 30, 2024)

Human Rights Violations took place in States and Regions from April 22 to 30, 2024 Military Junta Troop launched airstrikes and dropped bombs in the Sagaing Region, Bago Region, Magway Region, Kachin State, Kayin State, Rakhine State, Chin State, and Mon State from April 22nd to 30th. Military Junta Troop committed to arresting the civilians […]

Video shows rebel group sentencing own fighters to death for ‘abuse of power’

Footage of public spectacle provides a rare look at how the ethnic army metes out justice to its own. The video opens with an overhead shot of 10 individuals wearing blue jumpsuits on a stage adorned with banners in Chinese and large loudspeakers before slowly pulling back to reveal hundreds of spectators – several of […]

Junta wields fear as a weapon with killing of civilians in Myanmar’s Sagaing

New data shows the military killed nearly 90 people in the region in the first quarter of 2024. Junta troops arrested and killed nearly 90 civilians in northern Myanmar’s Sagaing region during the first quarter of 2024, according to data compiled by RFA Burmese, including several elderly villagers and others who were unable to flee […]

Junta recaptures key border base, but Karen rebels say fight isn’t over

The two sides are fighting for control of Myawaddy, a major trade hub on the Thai border. Myanmar’s military has reclaimed a key base in Myawaddy, a trading hub on the Thai border, after it fell to rebels earlier this month, an official with an ethnic Karen militant group said Wednesday. But he called its […]

Human Rights Situation weekly update (April 15 to 21, 2024)

Human Rights Violations took place in States and Regions from April 15 to 21, 2024 Military Junta Troop launched airstrikes and dropped bombs in the Sagaing Region, Magway Region, Kayin State, Kayah State, and Shan State from April 15th to 21st. Military Junta Troop used chemical toxic bombs in Kayin State. Military Junta and police […]