Myanmar junta killed at least 150 civilians since Operation 1027 Launch

November 17, 2023

More than 150 civilians have been killed in Myanmar in junta shelling, airstrikes and massacres since Operation 1027 was launched on October 27 in northern Shan State, according to rights groups, reports The Irrawaddy. Reports by the media, human rights groups and the civilian National Unity Government (NUG) have recorded deaths in northern Shan, Kayah, […]Continue Reading

About 250 Rohingya refugees in Indonesia sent back to sea

November 17, 2023

About 250 Rohingya refugees crammed onto a wooden boat have been turned away from western Indonesia and sent back to sea, residents said Friday, AFP reports. The group from the persecuted Myanmar minority arrived off the coast of Aceh province on Thursday but locals told them not to land. Some refugees swam ashore and collapsed […]Continue Reading

Canada, Britain and main EU countries join Myanmar genocide case

November 17, 2023

Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Britain have teamed up to join the genocide case over Myanmar’s treatment of the Muslim Rohingya minority before the United Nation’s top court in The Hague, the court said on Thursday evening, Reuters reports. The countries filed a joint declaration of intervention with the court, formally known as […]Continue Reading

Third batch of around 250 Rohingya arrive in Indonesia

November 16, 2023

About 250 desperate Rohingya refugees reached western Indonesia on a decrepit, overcrowded wooden boat on Thursday, bringing the total number reported by local officials to have arrived this week to nearly 600, AFP reports. The boat holding the members of the persecuted Myanmar minority, many barefoot and some pleading for help, sat just off the […]Continue Reading

Israeli commandos combing through Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital: military official

November 16, 2023

Israeli commandos are searching through every building and every floor of Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital and new information is emerging all the time, an Israeli military official said on Thursday, Reuters reports. “The operation is shaped by our understanding that there is well-hidden terrorist infrastructure in the complex,” the official said, declining to be Continue Reading

Fear grows for patients inside Gaza hospital, cut off after Israelis arrive

November 16, 2023

Palestinian medics said on Thursday they are increasingly afraid for the lives of hundreds of patients and medical staff at Gaza’s biggest hospital, cut off from all links to the outside world for more than a day after Israeli forces entered, Reuters reports. Gaza’s health ministry said Israeli soldiers had removed dead bodies from the […]Continue Reading

Bombarded twice in Gaza, 4-year-old Ahmed loses parents, then legs

November 15, 2023

The boy keeps asking for his parents, and he wants to get up and walk, but his parents are dead and his legs have been amputated, Reuters reports. That is the plight of Ahmed Shabat, a four-year-old boy whose parents were killed when their home in the town of Beit Hanoun in the northeastern corner […]Continue Reading

Canadian PM Trudeau tells Israel killing of babies in Gaza must end

November 15, 2023

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday said the “killing of women, of children, of babies” in the besieged Gaza Strip must end, in his sharpest criticism of Israel since war against Hamas broke out over a month ago, Reuters reports Canada has maintained that Israel has the right to defend itself against Hamas after […]Continue Reading

Myanmar rebels say dozens of junta forces surrender, captured

November 15, 2023

Dozens of members of the Myanmar security forces have surrendered or been captured, a rebel group said on Wednesday, as a coordinated offensive by insurgent groups battling the junta gathers pace in several parts of the country, Reuters reports. At least 28 policemen gave up their weapons and surrendered to the Arakan Army (AA), while […]Continue Reading

Myanmar soldiers flee to India after clash with rebels

November 14, 2023

At least 43 Myanmar soldiers have surrendered to police in the Indian state of Mizoram a day after heavy clashes with anti-junta rebel fighters, an Indian police official said on Tuesday, Reuters reports. Anti-junta fighters in Myanmar’s Chin state were aiming to gain control of part of a porous border with India, after tasting early […]Continue Reading