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Yangon – At least 25 journalists have been detained during the police crackdown against the anti-regime demonstrations across Myanmar between Feb. 14 to March 1 with 10 journalists are still in detention.
They were covering anti-coup demonstrations in Yangon, Myitkyina, Monywa, Hakha, Magwe, (...)
YANGON—At least 13 people were killed and scores injured by mid-afternoon as riot police and soldiers opened fire with live rounds and rubber bullets on anti-coup protests in multiple locations across Myanmar on Sunday.
Yangon: The city has been in chaos since early in the morning, with riot (...)
Engineers, doctors and even exotic pet owners have come together in opposition to the military coup for what are now Myanmar’s widest protests in three decades. The movement is not dominated by personalities or political parties. This report from the liberal think tank International Crisis Group (...)
Yangon — Kachin State protesters have rejected appeals from a military-appointed negotiation team, which was reportedly formed to prevent activists from being harmed in protests and sent to jail.
Young people leading protests in the state capital, Myitkyina, said they would not accept the (...)
YANGON—“#How_Many_Dead_Bodies_UN_Need_To_Take_Action?” is what Nyi Nyi Aung Htet Naing posted on his Facebook Account Saturday night.
The popular social media call for UN intervention to stop Myanmar’s military dictatorship turned out to be his last post.
On Sunday morning, the 23-year-old (...)
Yangon – Six anti-regime protesters have now died since the Feb. 1 coup after two activists in Mandalay died days after being injured.
On Saturday, a raid on government personnel taking part in the civil disobedience movement (CDM) at a dock in Mandalay was carried out by police and military (...)
Myanmar’s anti-coup protesters on Thursday are getting creative with thanakha — the country’s traditional facial cosmetic paste — to accelerate the civil disobedience movement (CDM), in which civil servants are encouraged to strike.
The latest campaign, popularly known as “the battle of thanakha” (...)
Myanmar’s anti-coup protests have captivated the world’s attention, but things look very different in the country’s north. Kachin youth protesters want a truly federal system, not just a new arrangement inside the greedy Barman elite.
The millions of people who have poured onto the streets in (...)
YANGON: Public hospitals are deserted. Government offices left dark. And trains do not leave the stations.
Despite risks to their lives and livelihoods, many Myanmar civil servants are refusing to work for the junta, as a growing civil disobedience movement seeks to thwart the generals by (...)
History shows that when a Myanmar military regime holds an election, it will likely be neither free nor fair. It also tells us that when the vote is free, the result may well be disregarded. It’s a fact of which Myanmar’s neighbors and the rest of the international community must be mindful.
The (...)
Yangon — The new Union Election Commission (UEC) formed by Myanmar’s military regime has invited political parties to a meeting on Friday.
The invitation letter did not give an agenda and only asked the parties to say if they will attend.
The Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD) told (...)
The growing democracy movement needs to look beyond Aung San Suu Kyi and the NLD, and listen closely to ethnic voices.
On the morning of February 1, my hopes disappeared when I learned that the civilian government had been overthrown in a military coup. Growing up under army rule, I did not (...)
Latest news: on Sunday 28 February, riot police and soldiers fired, often indiscriminately, on the population in many parts of the country, killing, according to the Burmese daily The Irrawady, at least 13 people and seriously injuring many others (provisional report). This is a concerted (...)
The Tatmadaw underestimated the social forces that are coming together to resist the coup, and it will ruin the country and itself if it fails to negotiate a way out of its own mess.
This year marks eight decades since the formation of the Burma Independence Army, the forerunner of the modern (...)
We, the undersigned organisations, strongly condemn the military coup in Burma. The current coup is a great set back to the little achievement of the transition process towards democracy in Burma for the last decade.
We denounce the use of excessive force against the pro-democracy protesters (...)
In the early days after the Myanmar military seized power on 1 February, many people from ethnic minority groups viewed the coup as a fight between and the military and the NLD, who they regard as having failed to promote the rights of ethnic minorities during its first term in government. I (...)
YANGON—Undeterred by security forces’ recent deadly crackdowns, millions of Myanmar people joined a nationwide general strike against their country’s military junta on Monday, intensifying their opposition to the men in uniform who overthrew the elected civilian government more than three weeks (...)
The success of February 22nd shows that the resistance movement against military rule has grown even stronger.
The Civil Disobedience Movement called for this one-day general strike, three weeks after the February 1 coup. Media reports confirm the success: across the country, offices, (...)
YANGON—A nationwide general strike against Myanmar’s military regime has been called for Monday with the aim of accelerating the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) against the repressive military regime, which overthrew the elected civilian government three weeks ago.
It’s likely that millions of (...)
China is feeling defensive. Facing daily protests in front of the Chinese Embassy in Yangon, Ambassador Chen Hai insisted to local media on Monday that the current situation in Myanmar is “absolutely not what China wants to see”. With public anger growing in Myanmar toward Beijing over its (...)
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