Myanmar

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…

A UN official on Monday said a 3rd of Myanmar’s population needs humanitarian assistance, calling for action to relieve to the “grim” humanitarian situation in the conflict-ridden Asian country. UN secretary-general’s spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters that 18.6 million people…

Junta troops fired a shell at Mandalay division’s Tha Hpan Kaing village on Wednesday night, killing two women and an 8-year-old child, RFA reported on Thursday, adding two others were also injured. Ten soldiers entered Madaya township from a neighboring…

A heavy aerial attack in northeastern Myanmar on Wednesday night killed five people, including a 5-year-old girl, Radio Free Asia reported on Friday. The junta aircraft dropped 500-pound bombs on unarmed civilians in a village in Namhkan township in northern…

An intensification of fighting between ethnic Arakan Army fighters and junta troops in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state has caused tens of thousands of villagers to flee four major townships in anticipation of additional clashes, RFA reported Friday. The fighting follows…

About 90,000 people have been displaced in Myanmar due to the intensifying conflict between the country’s military rulers and an alliance of ethnic armed groups, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in an update…

Junta navy officials have arrested 226 Rohingya fleeing Myanmar by boat since Oct. 27 in 3 different cases, Radio Free Asia reported, adding that they were attempting to escape to Malaysia and Thailand. In relation to the three cases, police…