US, EU add more sanctions as Myanmar violence deepens

November 9, 2022

NEWS DESK The United States and European Union have announced new sanctions against Myanmar’s military regime aimed at officials, companies and arms dealers, as campaigners urge quicker implementation of the measures given the deepening crisis in the country, Aljazeera and agencies report. The EU sanctions apply to 19 more individuals and entities, including a minister Continue Reading

China, Russia, India enabling Myanmar’s military rule: Report

November 5, 2022

NEWS DESK Support from China, Russia and India is enabling Myanmar’s military to sustain itself and carry out human rights abuses despite its failure to consolidate power following last year’s coup, a group of international legislators has said, Aljazeera reports. In a report published on Wednesday, the parliamentarians said this “steadfast and uncritical” support, Continue Reading

Around 20 Rohingya missing after boat capsize in Myanmar

November 2, 2022

NEWS DESK A boat carrying at least 80 Rohingya sank when it ran aground near Pyapon township in Myanmar’s southern Ayeyarwady region. Around 20 are still missing and feared dead after Monday’s accident, local residents were quoted to have told it, Radio Free Asia reports. “Only 60 people could be rescued, the remaining 20 just […]Continue Reading

Myanmar arrests 46 Rohingya trying to leave Rakhine State

November 1, 2022

NEWS DESK 28 Rohingya men, 18 Rohingya women and the two guides accompanying them were arrested near Daung Chaung Village Tract on the Gwa-Nga Thaing Chaung highway, according to a source close to Myanmar junta police, Mizzima reports. “The Rohingya were apprehended by the Junta army while sleeping somewhere in the vicinity of Daung Chaung […]Continue Reading

Myanmar warns ASEAN that pressure would be counterproductive

October 28, 2022

NEWS DESK Myanmar’s military government has warned that any pressure from its Southeast Asian neighbours to put a time frame on a peace plan would create “negative implications”, Al Jazeera reports. The military government made the statement in response to a meeting earlier on Thursday by foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations […]Continue Reading

ASEAN chair warns over rising Myanmar violence ahead of meeting

October 27, 2022

NEWS DESK The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is gravely concerned about escalating violence in Myanmar, the bloc’s chair Cambodia said, in remarks ahead of a special meeting of its foreign ministers on Thursday to discuss the crisis. “We are deeply saddened by the growing casualties, and the immense suffering that ordinary people in […]Continue Reading

Death toll from air raids in Myanmar’s Kachin reported to hit 80

October 25, 2022

NEWS DESK The death toll from a Myanmar military air raid in northern Kachin state has risen to 80, according to reports, as human rights groups accused the ruling generals of violating the laws of war and called on the international community to impose a ban on the sale of arms and aviation fuel to […]Continue Reading

Myanmar army air raids on ethnic rebel group concert ‘kill 60’

October 25, 2022

NEWS DESK Air raids by Myanmar’s military on a celebratory event held by a prominent ethnic rebel group have killed dozens of people, including civilians, the rebels say, Al Jazeera. Colonel Naw Bu told AFP news agency on Monday that “two Myanmar military jets attacked” the ceremony held by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in […]Continue Reading

A chain reaction of misery: How Myanmar’s instability will affect the Indo-Pacific and beyond

October 14, 2022

Major General Md Nayeem A Chowdhury The security and stability of Myanmar is substantially affecting not only its neighbours but it is spreading all over the Indo-Pacific and beyond. Our neighbouring Rakhine State’s stability predominantly revolves around the Rohingya crisis. The primary issue of the Rohingya crisis is identity construction, politically used by the Myanmar Continue Reading

Civilians in firing line as conflict returns to Myanmar’s Rakhine

October 11, 2022

On the evening of September 25, in Nagara village in western Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine State, Bu Wine and her family went to bed early. But a couple of hours later, she was awake. “After hearing loud firing at midnight, I felt worried,” she told Al Jazeera, recalling how she planned to gather up her four […]Continue Reading