Myanmar

The UNICEF reported on Wednesday that the number of civilian casualties, including children, killed or maimed by landmines and explosive ordnance in Myanmar more than doubled last year to 1,052, VOA announced in an article yesterday. The figure was the…

Since November, airstrikes and artillery bombardments in Rakhine state, Myanmar, have killed 79 Rohingya Muslims and injured 127, RFA reported. According to locals, the junta military attacks civilians, commits massacres, burns down villages, and has forcibly recruited more than 1,000…

A deadly incident occurred in western Myanmar as a junta battalion shelled a crowded market in Sittwe, Rakhine state, resulting in the deaths of 12 people and leaving 18 critically injured, RFA reported. The attack took place during a busy…

Myanmar junta authorities have arrested and jailed nearly 1,500 people for posting anti-junta messages on social media platforms such as Facebook, TikTok, and Telegram over the past two years, RFA reported. The arrests included a woman who was sentenced to…

Airstrikes in northern Myanmar killed six civilians and injured 13, as junta troops retaliated against joint resistance forces. The move came in response to an attack conducted by allied forces of the Kachin Independence Army and Arakan Army on a…

Junta forces in Rakhine state, western Myanmar, reportedly shot and killed seven people, including a journalist and a prominent social media commentator, who were arrested in the city of Mrauk-U. The bodies were found after the Arakan Army captured the…

Escalation of clashes between military junta forces and rebel groups have displaced many Rohingya in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, pushing them to escape to Bangladesh in a new wave of forced migration in search of safety, refuge, and food as escalate.…

The ruling junta in Myanmar has warned that it will do “whatever it takes” to crush opposition to its rule. Myanmar entered on Thursday its third year since the coup against the government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February…

The UN human rights chief expressed concern about the severe impact of ongoing armed battles between the ruling junta in Myanmar and the opposition groups on the Rohingya community in Myanmar, particularly in Rakhine State. The military’s actions have resulted…

Ten Rohingyas were killed and another 17 injured in the Buthidaung and Mrauk-U townships in Myanmar’s Rakhine state as a result of airstrikes by the junta on Thursday, RFA reported. At around 9 p.m. on Thursday night, heavy artillery fired…