Baby dies after teargas fired at Rohingya trying to escape Indian detention centre

July 25, 2023

A five-month-old girl has died after Indian forces fired teargas at Rohingya refugees trying to escape a detention centre where they have been held for more than two years, The UK’s The Guardian newspaper reports. Videos – sent to Rohingya activists by detainees at Hiranagar jail, now operating as a holding centre – appear to […]Continue Reading

Myanmar’s military plans to move Suu Kyi to house arrest, according to unofficial reports

July 25, 2023

Myanmar’s military-controlled government plans to transfer the country’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi from a prison in the capital, Naypyitaw, to home confinement. The move is part of an act of clemency to prisoners in connection with a religious ceremony next week, a security official said Tuesday, AP reports. There has been no official […]Continue Reading

Indian police arrest 74 Rohingya refugees in Uttar Pradesh

July 24, 2023

Indian police said they arrested 74 Rohingya refugees on Monday for living “illegally” in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh – a move activists condemned as an arbitrary crackdown on people fleeing violence, Reuters reports. The members of the Muslim Rohingya community were detained in six town and cities in the state and 10 of […]Continue Reading

Myanmar Junta Airstrike Hits Kachin Village

July 22, 2023

A Myanmar junta airstrike has hit a Kachin State village near where regime troops have been fighting the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) since last month. Three jet fighters bombed Nam San Yang village, which was previously controlled by the KIA about 9km from its Laiza headquarters, on Friday night. No casualties were reported as villagers […]Continue Reading

Resistance forces continue raids on junta bases in Myanmar’s Magwe region

July 21, 2023

Three resistance fighters were killed and two more were injured on Wednesday when Magwe Region resistance groups attacked a pro-junta village in southern Pauk Township, The Irrawaddy reports. Fierce fighting began at about 5am when several resistance groups jointly attacked Tat Kone Village—the base of a pro-junta Pyu Saw Htee militia and a military unit. […]Continue Reading

Funding ‘simply not enough’ for Rohingya refugees: WFP

July 21, 2023

NEWS DESK Current funding for critical aid efforts supporting Rohingya refugees living in camps in southern Bangladesh is simply not enough, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) has said, as dwindling resources have forced the second ration cut in three months. In March, the value of the food vouchers for camp residents was reduced from […]Continue Reading

Over 300 arrested Rohingya sentenced to prison terms, others shot dead by junta

July 19, 2023

The Ayeyarwady Myanmar Muslim Network has reported that over 300 individuals, including Rohingya women and children, who were arrested within a span of six months in the Ayeyarwady Region, have now been sentenced by the Military Council, Burma News International reports. It has been reported that some Rohingya individuals intercepted who entered Kyangin Township by […]Continue Reading

‘Must press’ Myanmar junta to stop violence, return to democracy: Blinken

July 16, 2023

NEWS DESK US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Southeast Asian ministers today (July 14) that Washington and regional states must pressure Myanmar’s ruling junta to put down its arms and return to democratic rule, AP reports. Myanmar has been ravaged by deadly violence since a military coup ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s government more […]Continue Reading

EU rejects Myanmar’s diplomatic role and says it still doesn’t recognize generals

July 13, 2023

The European Union’s top diplomat on Thursday expressed opposition to Myanmar’s upcoming role as the overseer of relations between the 27-nation bloc and Southeast Asian nations and reasserted its non-recognition of the strife-torn country’s military government, AP reports. The comments marked the latest diplomatic fallout from the Myanmar army’s forcible seizure of power Continue Reading

ASEAN foreign ministers repeat condemnation of Myanmar violence

July 13, 2023

Southeast Asian foreign ministers on Thursday reiterated condemnation of ongoing violence in Myanmar, as an intensifying conflict there tests the unity of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Reuters reports. Myanmar, one of the bloc’s 10 members, has been beset by fighting since the military seized power in early 2021 before unleashing a bloody crackdown […]Continue Reading