Myanmar junta rallies support to defend capital as resistance gets closer

August 30, 2023

The regime is mobilizing support from local residents for possible attacks on the capital, following recent resistance attacks on junta bases in the regime’s nerve center, The Irrawaddy reports. A team of junta officials led by Naypyitaw Council member Colonel Min Naung gave food supplies, issued citizenship ID, and provided healthcare services in villages in […]Continue Reading

Nearly 30 Rohingyas hidden inside Myanmar dump truck and arrested

August 29, 2023

Military Council forces and subordinate police in Kyangin Township, Ayeyarwady Region, discovered and apprehended 27 Rohingya passengers who were covertly riding in a dump truck, Burma News International reports. At the Oatpon checkpoint in Zeepinkwin village tract, Kyangin, the dump truck was intercepted. Upon inspection, the Rohingya individuals who had been concealing Continue Reading

Divided UN Security Council condemns Myanmar junta—again

August 25, 2023

The junta was condemned by all but two members of the UN Security Council on August 23 for its “unrelenting violence” across Myanmar over the past months, but Myanmar’s Ambassador to the UN said more than words were necessary to stop the regime from committing atrocities, The Irrawaddy reports. Only China and Russia, which can […]Continue Reading

UN expert demands accountability for Rohingya genocide

August 24, 2023

NEWS DESK Marking the sixth anniversary of the Myanmar military’s genocidal attacks against the Rohingya, a UN expert on Thursday called on world leaders to end the paralysis of indifference and take action to hold the architects and perpetrators of this violence to account. “Min Aung Hlaing, who led the genocidal campaign, is now at […]Continue Reading

Myanmar regime ramps up ASEAN engagement as chair handover looms

August 22, 2023

The junta’s new home affairs minister Lieutenant-General Yar Pyae is attending the 17th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Transnational Crime in Labuan Bajo, Indonesia, the current chair of ASEAN, The Irrawaddy reports. This is Yar Pyae’s second ASEAN visit after being appointed home affairs minister when Min Aung Hlaing’s regime was reshuffled following the extension of Continue Reading

Myanmar’s junta arrests Swiss filmmaker, 13 cast members for defaming Buddhism

August 22, 2023

NEWS DESK Myanmar junta officials arrested a Swiss filmmaker and 13 cast members, accusing them of defaming Buddhism in informational videos posted on YouTube, according to a statement published by junta-controlled state media, RFA Burmese reports. The Swiss Embassy in Yangon told Radio Free Asia on Monday that it has asked Myanmar authorities to clarify […]Continue Reading

Myanmar junta declares support for Niger military coup

August 22, 2023

NEWS DESK Myanmar’s military junta has publicly declared support for the military coup in Niger, and even compared the two countries’ coups, The Irrawaddy reports. August 6 issues of junta newspapers carried a propaganda article arguing that the Niger and Myanmar armed forces had staged coups not because of their thirst for power, but to […]Continue Reading

Myanmar shadow government official apologises to Rohingya

August 18, 2023

NEWS DESK In an interview with VOA, the humanitarian minister in Myanmar’s anti-junta shadow government has apologized for failing “to bring justice to the Rohingya in northern Rakhine State,” where Myanmar’s military launched a brutal crackdown in August 2017, VOA News reports. Dr. Win Myat Aye served as social welfare minister in the administration of […]Continue Reading

Myanmar arrests nearly 150 fleeing Rohingya

August 15, 2023

Myanmar authorities have arrested nearly 150 Rohingya suspected of trying to flee the country, an official told AFP yesterday. The mainly Muslim Rohingya are seen in Myanmar as interlopers from Bangladesh. They are denied citizenship and require permission to travel. The military launched a crackdown on Rohingya in 2017, and thousands now risk their lives […]Continue Reading

Some 48,000 people in Myanmar flee homes amid deadly flooding, landslides

August 12, 2023

Floods and landslides caused by monsoon rain have killed five and forced around 48,000 people to flee their homes, Myanmar’s relief ministry said, AFP reports. On Saturday in Bago city, northeast of Yangon, children floated on rubber tyres squealing with joy, while adults paddled wooden canoes with supplies through the murky brown and yellow water […]Continue Reading