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

A senior Myanmar military official has not been seen in public for weeks following a drone attack, leading to speculation he might have been wounded ... 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

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

Five Rohingya found dead after Arakan Army arrest 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

Junta attacks since the weekend in central Myanmar’s Bago region have killed at least eight people and displaced around 6,000 people ... Show more

Rebel ambush kills Myanmar junta troops

Karen rebel forces attack stranded #Myanmar junta troops on Thai border

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

This is Yin Sein, who left her home three years ago after fleeing fighting near Htee Mei Wah Khee, #Myanmar . Her township came under attack from junta forces ... Show more

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 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

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

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

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

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

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.’

Thailand has warned Myanmar's junta and a powerful ethnic army against encroaching on its territory in their battle for control of a city near the two ... Show more   #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar   www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/thailand-myanmar-warning-04242024033926.html

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

⚠️ Thailand warns Myanmar’s junta and rebel groups against using its territory for “their own sake”

#Myanmar junta forces hundreds of Rohingya Muslims to protest an ethnic rebel offensive in Rakhine state

🇲🇲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