Myanmar

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…

Junta troops arrested 15 people and displaced more than 10,000 during raids in northern Myanmar, Free Asia reported today. Around 130 troops entered Sagaing region’s Tabayin township on Thursday, prompting more than 10,000 people to abandon some 10 villages in…

The “Human Rights Watch” organization has announced that about one million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh face a “poor possibility” of returning safely to their lands after suffering six years of oppression inflicted by war criminals of Myanmar and the Army.…

Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees, residing in Bangladesh’s camps, have protested against the drastic cuts in food rations and claims that they are being pressured to return to Myanmar. The Muslim refugees, who fled persecution in Myanmar in 2017,…

Lawyers in Myanmar defending anti-coup protesters and critics have faced threats, arrest, and prosecution by the military junta, Human Rights Watch report says, adding that those detained have been tortured and mistreated. According to the report, the military authorities impose…