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Myanmar Junta Kills 10 Civilians in Five Days: AAPP

Myanmar’s junta atrocities are continuing with the murder of more than 10 civilians, including a Buddhist monk and National League for Democracy (NLD) supporters, over the past five days. Regime forces have looted houses, destroyed property, bombarded civilians with artillery, burned down homes and arbitrarily killed civilians during operations against civilian resistance forces, especially in […]

US Condemns Myanmar Military’s Violence in Chin State

Washington has condemned the Myanmar junta’s horrific use of violence in Chin State and called for urgent international action to hold the Myanmar military accountable for its brutality. The United States (US) intervention comes after regime forces shelled the Chin State town of Thantlang again last Friday, destroying over 160 houses and buildings including two […]

Soldiers abduct 19 villagers in southern Shan ‘to use as human shields’

The residents from Kathea village were blindfolded and led away on Thursday  Junta soldiers abducted 19 people from a village in southern Shan State last week, blindfolding them before leading them away to be used as human shields, local resistance fighters said. The residents were taken from the village of Kathea on Thursday afternoon, a  […]

More than 160 homes burn down in junta shelling of Chin State town

Two of Thantlang’s churches also caught fire, and some 20 children are feared to be trapped in an orphanage in the besieged town  Amid an escalation of both armed resistance to military rule and reprisals from the junta forces, Myanmar army troops shelled the largely deserted western Chin State town of Thantlang on Friday, causing […]

Woman killed and children injured during military shelling in southern Shan State

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 […]

Junta forces murder four civlians in raids on Sagaing Region villages

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 Must Turn Sorrow into Strength: Wife of Detained Activist

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, […]