Entries by ND Burma

CRISIS IN RAKHINE: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL MUST CONVENE URGENT SPECIAL SESSION ON MYANMAR

19 May 2024: The Rohingya people in western Myanmar are again at risk of genocide. The United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council must address this risk and the worsening human rights emergency in Myanmar generally, by convening an urgent special session, says the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar (SAC-M). This weekend, Rohingya remaining in Buthidaung township, […]

About 30 Rohingya killed in clashes between Myanmar junta, insurgents

Thousands are fleeing a township after the Arakan Army ordered them to leave. About 30 members of Myanmar’s Rohingya minority have been killed in clashes between junta forces and ethnic minority Buddhist insurgents, residents of Rakhine State said on Saturday, raising new fears that the persecuted Muslim community is being caught in the middle of […]

Human Rights Situation weekly update (May 8 to 14, 2024)

Human Rights Violations took place in States and Regions from May 8 to 14, 2024 Military Junta Troop launched airstrikes and dropped bombs in the Sagaing Region, Magway Region, Tanintharyi Region, Rakhine State, Kachin State, Shan State, and Kayin State from May 8th to 14th. 20 civilians died and over 50 were injured by the […]

Myanmar junta forces kill 15 villagers after clashes with Rakhine State insurgents

Aerial bombings and gunfire on three villages destroyed homes and cars, and critically wounded many. Myanmar junta forces battling ethnic minority insurgents in three townships in the west have killed 15 people in strikes on villages, residents told Radio Free Asia Wednesday. The junta artillery fire and airstrikes on Tuesday also wounded 16 people in […]

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 […]