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199 CSOs demand Myanmar junta to drop execution of 4 activists.
Myanmar’s junta has stated that it will execute a former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, a prominent democracy activist and two civil society members in the country’s first judicial executions in the last few decades.
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Following the 2021 coup, there is no viable central government in Myanmar. The junta is illegal and illegitimate and unable to effectively deliver government services. Instead, a range of ethnic armed and other resistance organizations have emerged as viable and legitimate governance entities. (...)
Myanmar’s regime has officially endorsed pro-junta militias that are increasingly targeting civilians who oppose military rule.
Junta spokesman Major General Zaw Min Tun told the regime-controlled media in Naypyitaw on Wednesday that the regime was implementing a “public security system” and (...)
The number of Myanmar people displaced by fighting between resistance forces and the Myanmar military in anti-regime strongholds in the west and northwest of the country has exceeded 300,000 ‘for the first time’ since last year’s coup.
The United Nations (UN) Office for the Coordination of (...)
Urban guerrilla forces in Yangon have conducted over a dozen attacks in 11 townships over the last two weeks, killing at least seven people including an army major, soldiers, police and a junta-appointed local administrator.
Yangon resistance groups under the control of the National Unity (...)
Welcome back to Frontier Fridays! This week the junta’s Central Bank announced a new ban on foreign currencies, some signatories to the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement have started pulling away, the United Wa State Army engaged in its first clashes since the coup, and China expressed full support (...)
March turned out to be the deadliest and most miserable month so far this year for Myanmar junta troops, as more than 400 soldiers have been killed in more than 500 clashes with ethnic Karen fighters in the country’s south.
The Karen National Union (KNU) said in a statement on Tuesday that (...)
Challenging the regime’s legitimacy at home and abroad, Myanmar’s shadow National Unity Government (NUG) foreign minister Daw Zin Mar Aung, 45, has engaged with foreign governments and parliaments, international aid agencies and Myanmar’s many armed groups.
However, the elected lawmaker from the (...)
The Australian government’s granting of protection to defectors from the Myanmar regime’s armed forces has elicited interest even among senior officers, especially those who oppose military rule in the country. Some have already quit the military, which has become notorious for killing its own (...)
“Pyu Saw Htee are plain-clothed, and have used their anonymity to terrorize civilians and ambush local PDF with the support of junta troops.”
The Myanmar military is utilizing the shift of the international community’s focus on the crisis in Ukraine to their full advantage, as they continue to (...)
Nations across the globe have unequivocally condemned Russia’s military action against Ukraine. The Western bloc led by the US has imposed the heaviest possible sanctions in order to cripple Moscow economically and isolate it globally.
But the same solidarity is missing when it comes to (...)
Progressive Voice published a briefing paper today highlighting the Myanmar military’s massacres and airstrikes against the people of Myanmar since the 1 February 2021 failed coup.
The briefing paper “Anatomy of Impunity” presents events of massacres and other heinous crimes committed against the (...)
The split mirrors the nation’s military and political differences
The Myanmar military government which grabbed power in February 2021 has supported the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Meanwhile, the National Unity Government (NUG) voted ‘yes’ to the United Nations resolution condemning the actions (...)
Norway’s Telenor was long seen as the most trustworthy means of communication in Myanmar. As it prepares to sell off its operations there, it may leave behind an invasive wiretapping system made in Germany.
To quash all dissent, a regime needs total control of communications: when it can (...)
Welcome back to Frontier Fridays! This week the junta marked Peasants’ Day by releasing a group of celebrities, reports surfaced of the regime using preschool children as human shields, more villages were targeted in arson attacks, and the United States announced that Myanmar could only attend (...)
Myanmar’s military regime is planning to axe six units from the Myanmar Police Force and transfer the personnel from the axed units to other police departments, according to striking police officers.
Among the units set to be cut are the Maritime Police Force, Aviation Police Force, Tourist (...)
Sources say police used social media to detain a record number of protesters last month.
Authorities in Myanmar’s commercial capital Yangon used information obtained on activists’ phones last month to arrest dozens of youths who they targeted in connection with anti-junta flash protests, RFA’s (...)
Thanks, Debbie [Debbie Stodhard of ALTSEAN-Burma], for facilitating this meeting at my request and I also thank the Special Envoy and the team for setting up this meeting.
Madam Special Envoy, I’d like to begin by saying that we appreciate this meeting and look forward to a frank and fruitful (...)
The intensifying conflict between the military junta and its opponents shows few signs of resolution in 2022.
As crowds began amassing across Myanmar’s towns and cities a year ago to protest the military’s brazen power grab on February 1, there was a widely shared sense of enthusiastic defiance. (...)
Sanctions worked the last time the military was in power. Can they again?
One year after the Myanmar military coup, it is time to intensify international diplomatic, political and economic actions, defeat the junta, and put the country back on the path toward democracy. It also time for (...)
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