Myanmar

More than 300 Rohingya men from villages near Rakhine state’s capital have been forced to attend mandatory military training by Myanmar’s junta troops over the last few days, RFA reported yesterday. This comes after about 1,000 Rohingya from elsewhere in…

Nearly 80 people have lost their lives at refugee camps in western Myanmar within three weeks due to poor living conditions, Radio Free Asia reported yesterday quoting displaced people and aid workers. The highest number of fatalities were recorded at…

UN Human Rights Chief has warned of the grave threat posed to the civilian population in Rakhine State due to intensified fighting between the military and the Arakan Army, as well as tensions between the Rohingya and ethnic Rakhine communities.…

Seven years after Myanmar’s military, or Tatmadaw, tortured, raped and killed thousands of Rohingya and sent nearly 1 million fleeing into neighboring Bangladesh, its soldiers are now pressing those who remain into service to support their struggling military campaign, RFA…

Nearly seven years after Myanmar’s army massacred thousands of Muslim Rohingyas, in what the UN called “textbook ethnic cleansing”, it is now demanding their help in fighting armed opposition. According to BBC, some 100 Muslim Rohingyas living in Rakhine state…

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…