Quietly slipping right into a pro-junta militia camp, insurgent troopers of the ethnic Ta’ang minority started liberating greater than 120 of their individuals who had been forcibly detained, together with greater than two dozen girls and youngsters. When the pro-junta fighters realized what was occurring, a firefight erupted because the …

Myanmar’s junta has established a “Nuclear Technology and Information Center” in cooperation with Russian vitality agency Rosatom State Corp. within the nation’s industrial capital Yangon, as a part of what observers say is the regime’s long-running dream of acquiring nuclear weapons. The opening of the knowledge heart follows an settlement …

Radio Free Asia with Malaysia’s former Overseas Minister Saifuddin Abdullah, who was usually a robust advocate for ASEAN to take stronger motion on the disaster in Myanmar. He spoke in regards to the present geopolitical state of affairs within the nation and ASEAN’s response to it, in addition to the …

Myanmar’s ousted opposition get together – as soon as led by Aung San Suu Kyi, who’s now jailed – refused to re-register below a brand new regulation imposed by the ruling navy junta forward of common elections prone to be held later this 12 months, two Nationwide League of Democracy …

Myanmar’s army junta has declared martial regulation in 37 townships throughout the nation and licensed army tribunals at hand down life sentences and the demise penalty for a variety of offenses, a transfer that political and army analysts say will result in extra bloodshed, displacement and terror. Thursday’s transfer got …

By the point they heard the troopers enter their village, it was too late to flee.  The three ladies – Nyo Kyin, 50, Aye Aye Win, 40, and her 13-year-old daughter Moe Yi – hid within the outhouse behind their residence, hoping they wouldn’t be discovered, a resident of the …

Myanmar’s high army leaders dropped hints on Tuesday, the eve of the second anniversary of their overthrow of the civilian authorities, that they might lengthen emergency rule, declaring an “extraordinary situation” in mild of ongoing resistance to junta rule. The 11-member Nationwide Protection and Safety Council, which native media mentioned …

Two years into Myanmar’s coup, members of the nation’s deposed Nationwide League for Democracy are being hunted down and killed or imprisoned in what observers say is a bid by the junta to retain energy. The social gathering of imprisoned chief Aung San Suu Kyi overwhelmingly gained Myanmar’s November 2020 …

A brand new legislation, issued simply days earlier than the top of a two-year nationwide state of emergency imposed after Myanmar’s navy coup, has positioned a excessive bar on the registration of political events forward of a common election the junta has deliberate for 2023. Accepted by junta chief Senior …

The police car pulled as much as the home on a September night and three officers obtained out. They demanded to see Kyaw Naing Win, a secondary faculty trainer who had refused to go to work as a part of the nation’s Civil Disobedience Motion after the February 2021 navy …

Two years into Myanmar’s civil battle, civilian drones refitted to drop explosives on junta troops are serving to flip the tide in opposition to the nation’s better-equipped navy, insurgent teams say. Drones had been as soon as used solely by the military to detect and crack down on pro-democracy protests …

An ultranationalist Buddhist monk is main the cost towards Myanmar’s armed insurrection in Sagaing area for the navy regime, establishing a community of pro-junta militias utilizing a mixture of violent coercion and fear-mongering. Whilst you received’t discover him on any record of sanctions concentrating on the junta and its cronies …