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Mrauk-U hospital bombing deepens healthcare crisis in Rakhine State

December 17, 2025/in News

After the Myanmar Air Force carried out airstrikes on the People’s Hospital in Mrauk-U Township, Arakan State, other hospitals are no longer able to operate openly for fear of being targeted, forcing them to relocate or operate as mobile units, making it increasingly difficult for Mrauk-U residents to access healthcare. The inability to operate hospitals […]

Sham Election Tracker (SET): Monitoring the illegal Myanmar junta’s sham election and related human rights violations

December 12, 2025/in Press Releases and Statements

PRESS RELEASE 12 December 2025 On 10 December 2025 on International Human Rights Day, Sham Election Tracker Working Group (SET WG) held a press conference at the Foreign Correspondent Club of Thailand in Bangkok to launch the Sham Election Tracker (SET). The illegal military junta in Myanmar is aggressively pushing to hold its sham election […]

Mrauk-U hospital bombing deepens healthcare crisis in Rakhine State

December 17, 2025/in News

Sham Election Tracker (SET): Monitoring the illegal Myanmar junta’s sham election and related human rights violations

December 12, 2025/in Press Releases and Statements

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Mrauk-U hospital bombing deepens healthcare crisis in Rakhine State

December 17, 2025/in News

The inability to operate hospitals in proper locations, combined with a land and sea blockade by the military since the Arakan Army (AA) launched its offensive in November 2023, has compounded the crisis with hospitals unable to receive a sufficient amount of medicines. This poses serious challenges for residents in need of emergency treatment.

“After the bombing of Mrauk-U Hospital, getting healthcare has become really tough. This hospital was a major medical center that the people of Arakan depended on. Because Mrauk-U is easy to reach, many patients relied on it. But after the airstrike, accessing care has become much more difficult for everyone,” a Rathedaung Township resident told Development Media Group (DMG) on the condition of anonymity.

The AA has called on international and humanitarian organizations to donate as much medicine and medical equipment as possible to help patients following the regime airstrikes on Mrauk-U Hospital on Dec. 10. Mrauk-U was seized by the AA on Feb. 8, 2024.

The AA’s political wing, the United League of Arakan (ULA), stated that the regime airstrikes on Mrauk-U Hospital completely halted all healthcare services, causing severe hardship and even deaths due to lack of emergency medical care.

“Getting treatment elsewhere is really hard because transportation is difficult and expensive. Living and food costs are also high. Some patients just can’t afford to get the medical care they need,” the Rathedaung resident told DMG.

Other hospitals in Arakan State are no longer able to operate in fixed locations, and some have closed entirely over security concerns. At least 33 people were killed and around 80 were injured in the airstrikes.

The U.N. stated that it was deeply alarmed by the attack on the Mrauk-U Hospital. It called on all parties to “observe obligations under international humanitarian and international human rights law,” while highlighting the fact that Arakan is in need of a large humanitarian response.

The ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) accused the regime of committing a war crime by attacking a hospital. Under international law, the targeting of civilian infrastructure like hospitals is considered a crime.

“The hospital bombing is really devastating and has made life very hard for the people of Arakan. Health is so important, but now there’s no hospital to rely on. Health issues can happen anytime, some people might have minor illnesses, and others could be emergency cases. But now, even if people are sick, they don’t dare go to clinics or hospitals because they’re afraid of airstrikes,” a Mrauk-U resident told DMG.

Residents across Arakan, living in the 14 townships under AA control, are constantly in fear of regime airstrikes as Naypyidaw has its sights set on getting the third and final member of the Brotherhood Alliance to the negotiating table in China to broker a ceasefire, as it has already done with the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) in October and the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) in January.

The AA and residents claimed that the regime is deliberately targeting civilians at public gathering places, hospitals, clinics, schools, and markets.

It added that 192 civilians have been killed, 502 others have been injured, and 596 homes have been destroyed by 92 regime airstrikes on Sittwe, Pauktaw, Rathedaung, Ponnagyun, Kyauktaw, Minbya, Mrauk-U, Ann, Taungup, Ramree, Kyaukphyu, Gwa townships in Arakan, as well as Paletwa Township in southern Chinland, which was seized by the AA in 2024, over the last year.

At least 1,724 civilians have been killed and 3861 others have been injured in 1,852 aerial attacks carried out by the regime’s Air Force since the earthquake on March 28, according to DVB data.

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Sham Election Tracker (SET): Monitoring the illegal Myanmar junta’s sham election and related human rights violations

December 12, 2025/in Press Releases and Statements

PRESS RELEASE

12 December 2025

On 10 December 2025 on International Human Rights Day, Sham Election Tracker Working Group (SET WG) held a press conference at the Foreign Correspondent Club of Thailand in Bangkok to launch the Sham Election Tracker (SET).

The illegal military junta in Myanmar is aggressively pushing to hold its sham election scheduled for December 2025 and January 2026 amid its ongoing campaign of terror against the people of Myanmar, including mass killings, mass displacement, aerial bombing, forced conscription, and severe restrictions on civic and political space.

SET is dedicated to document and expose the junta’s so-called election related events and human rights violations connected to this fraudulent electoral process. It will collect, verify and upload reports on related incidents and violations to inform the international community and stakeholders including international governments, legislatures, civil society and media and offer critical insights and analysis on the junta’s attempts to legitimize and reinstate the military dictatorship in Myanmar.

Inspired by Burma Election Tracker that was developed by Burma Partnership – the Asia Pacific regional advocacy and campaign network for a free and democratic Burma – to track the previous military regime’s farce election in 2010, SET will also present a real-time reporting on the data visualisation and updates on campaigns and advocacy activities as a transparent and accessible tool. The platform, in collaboration with 34 Myanmar civil society organisations,

also features a database, interactive mapping, and a secure system for submitting reports.

The launch of the SET was also joined by representatives from Special Advisory Council for Myanmar (SAC-M) and Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL) as they shared the findings of their recently published reports on the military junta’s sham election.

Yanghee Lee of the Special Advisory Council for Myanmar (SAC-M) explained that the junta’s sham election is central to its long-term plan, set in motion with the attempted coup, to secure absolute military dominance over the state. She also emphasised that “the only legitimate path towards peace in Myanmar is through the realisation of the common revolutionary vision for federal democracy.”

We call on the international community and governments, the UN, the ASEAN, and the European Union to:

1. Publicly denounce the junta’s illegal sham election and its result;

2. Refrain from providing any technical, logistical, or financial assistance and abstain from sending observers; and

3. Support the Myanmar people’s will and aspirations to establish federal democracy.

For more information, please contact:

The Sham Election Tracker Working Group, Signal: +60 10 521 7959, juntaelectiontracker@gmail.com

Sham Election Tracker Website : https://shamelectiontracker.com/

PDF Link: https://drive.google.com/…/1-9Iks-ojKefSc5EAq…/view…

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Geneva, 11 August 2026 – Investigations by the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (Mechanism), as detailed in its Annual Report released today, show a pattern of deliberate aerial attacks on civilians, arbitrary detentions, torture and sexual violence committed by the Myanmar military. The Myanmar military escalated its aerial attacks and other crimes against civilians in the lead-up to […]

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Civil Society Position Paper on ASEAN’s Goal of a Myanmar-Owned and -Led SolutionDecember 18, 2024 - 12:11 pm
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The Airstrikes after the journey to the China of the Junta Military LeaderDecember 10, 2024 - 1:28 pm
Operation 1027 was a coordinated military attack against the junta on October 27th, 2023. It was carried out by the Northern Brotherhood, which includes the Arakan Army, Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army, and the Ta’ang National Liberation Army. Several months later, the Three Brotherhood Alliance held three meetings to negotiate with China on January 11 […]

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ND-Burma formed in 2004 in order to provide a way for Burma human rights organizations to collaborate on the human rights documentation process. The 13 ND-Burma member organizations seek to collectively use the truth of what communities in Burma have endured to advocate for justice for victims. ND-Burma trains local organizations in human rights documentation; coordinates members’ input into a common database using Martus, a secure open-source software; and engages in joint-advocacy campaigns.

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