Myanmar

Myanmar’s military draft has created a cottage industry of corruption as administrators across the country offer eligible citizens a way out of fighting in ... Show more

#BangkokPost : As the battle against the Myanmar junta intensifies, the allied resistance forces have gained momentum with the seizure of the border town of Myawaddy ... Show more   #opinion   #government   #Myanmar   #security   #border   #Myawaddy

Myanmar regime sends Russian aircraft to bomb lost territory MiG-29 jets and Mi-35 helicopter gunships operating along Thai border: asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Myanmar-Crisis/Myanmar-regime-sends-Russian-aircraft-to-bomb-lost-territory

Myanmar’s military staged a coup in 2021, strangling democratic reforms and jailing much of the country’s civilian leadership ... Show more   www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/04/20/world/asia/myanmar-civil-war.html

Big battlefield losses and drone attacks at Naypyitaw headquarters are having a psychological effect on the junta’s generals. A commentary by Zachary Abuza.

🏥 Nearly 40 injured people were sent to a Thai border hospital after the battle in #Myanmar

Nearly 5,000 villagers in central Myanmar’s Sagaing region have fled their homes after junta troops conducted raids in Monywa township ... Show more

💥A drone attack kills 8, injures 30 in Sagaing region, #Myanmar ⬇️

For over a year, the whereabouts of Myanmar’s jailed democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has been a mystery. But a source close to her legal team told Radio Free ... Show more

Rebel ambush kills Myanmar junta troops

An artist’s interpretation based on interviews with family and a prisoner depicts Aung San Suu Kyi in Naypyidaw Prison, Myanmar ... Show more

Junta troops kill 4 in post-amnesty #Myanmar prison riot

There were many tears and smiles in #Myanmar on April 17 as thousands of prisoners reunited with their loved ones following their release by the junta during the ... Show more

🕷️💪 Spider-Men scaling Yangon's skyscrapers These man risk their lives to make a living by climbing up apartment buildings and removing banyan trees from ... Show more   #Myanmar

Myanmar military faces humiliating rout on Thai border Officials of the military regime have fled the eastern town of Myawaddy on the Thai-Myanmar border in ... Show more   asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Myanmar-Crisis/Myanmar-military-faces-humiliating-rout-on-Thai-border

The Karen National Liberation Army, an armed branch of the Karen National Union, along with other allied groups, captured the last remaining junta Infantry ... Show more

💥 Arakan Army attacks another junta border outpost in western Myanmar

After years of struggle, a motley fellowship of resistance fighters have won key victories over Myanmar’s military regime, possibly turning the tide of the war ... Show more   www.nytimes.com/2024/04/20/world/asia/myanmar-war-rebels.html

🇲🇲 Nearly 50 junta soldiers surrendered to an ethnic armed group in southern Myanmar ⬇️

Myanmar's detained former leader and Aung San Suu Kyi was moved from prison to house arrest possibly to be used by the Southeast Asian nation's ruling junta as ... Show more

Members of her legal team haven’t seen her since Dec. 30, 2022, at Naypyidaw Prison, when the junta barred them from further visiting her ... Show more

Thai leaders ready to increase humanitarian aid in Myanmar

Nearly 80 people at refugee camps in western Myanmar have died in only three weeks, aid workers told RFA

A satellite image of Naypyidaw Prison shows a building in the center that was built between Jan. 31, 2022 and April 24, 2023 ... Show more

#BangkokPost : About 2,000 Myanmar people fled Myawaddy to Mae Sot district of Tak to take refuge from escalating battles between Myanmar junta forces and ethnic ... Show more   #thailand   #Myanmar   #Myawaddy   #security   #migrate

Myanmar junta releases thousands of prisoners in New Year amnesty

Myanmar’s military staged a coup in 2021, strangling democratic reforms and jailing much of the country’s civilian leadership ... Show more

Meet 18-year-old Moe Pyae Sone, who left her Shan state home to fight in western #Myanmar and now is in Kayin state ‘for the revolution.’

🪖 5,000 people flee military raids on villages in Myanmar’s Sagaing region ⬇️

🇲🇲Big battlefield losses and drone attacks at Naypyitaw headquarters are having a psychological effect on the junta ⬇️

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A female middle school teacher and other villagers who supported the Myanmar junta led troops and pro-junta militia in an arson attack on a Kachin state ... Show more

At least 25 ethnic Rohingya civilians were killed and thousands forced to flee their homes amid junta airstrikes and heavy artillery over the weekend in ... Show more

During coup leader Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing’s Thingyan – or water festival – visit to Mandalay division’s Pyin Oo Lwin city on Sunday ... Show more

Prisoners sit in a bus during their release from Insein prison for the Buddhist New Year, in Yangon on April 17, 2024. Myanmar's junta on April 17, 2024 ... Show more

Allied rebel forces capture the last battalion in a Myanmar border town⬇️

Hundreds of Myanmar soldiers are believed to have retreated to a border crossing with Thailand after rebels reportedly took control of the nearby town of ... Show more

Myanmar's military-led government is resorting to forced conscription into the military as its latest tactic to target the persecuted Rohingya population.