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Few normal people would want to spend their vacation in a volatile country routinely rocked by armed clashes and explosions. So when someone begins touting the potential of the tourism industry in such a place, it would be wise to take their claims with a grain of salt.
Junta chief Min Aung (...)
As UN aid agencies line up to sign deals with the junta, local groups fighting “for victory and humanity” continue to be the country’s real saviours
The recent rush of UN agencies to sign memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with Myanmar’s military junta has raised important questions about who is (...)
Peace talks between the Myanmar junta’s governing body, the State Administration Council (SAC), and various ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) seem oxymoronic in light of the bitter conflict between the multi-colored resistance and the increasingly embattled Myanmar military that is convulsing (...)
We of the #MilkTeaAlliance Friends of Myanmar group & the undersigned activists & groups call on the members of the UN credentials committee to reject the application of the Junta in Myanmar for Myanmar’s seat in the UN General Assembly.
Since the Junta attempted its attempted coup (it (...)
Ending military rule forever is the only way to break a pattern dating to 1962 that has seen 10% of the country’s 54 mn people flee in search of a more secure future.
Repeated military coups and consecutive military regimes in Myanmar dating back more than half a century to the first military (...)
Myanmar, isolated from the rest of the world since last year’s coup, is rapidly becoming an even bigger headache for the Southeast Asia region.
Rising incidents of human trafficking have alarmed human rights activists, with reports that the Shwe Kokko New City in southeast Myanmar’s Karen State (...)
This statement was initiated by the Solidarity For Myanmar People (SFMP). 369 people from across the globe responded (57 countries are mentioned), many with individual messages conveying solidarity and encouragement.
We condemn the recent execution by the Myanmar military junta of four (...)
In a remote corner of north western Myanmar, a civil war you’ve never heard of is underway.
The people of the Chin State are locked in a deadly conflict with Myanmar’s ruthless military machine – the Tatmadaw.
Crossing into Myanmar from northeast India, reporter Matt Davis has gained exclusive (...)
International sanctions and displays of concern mean nothing to the regime; only practical support for the Myanmar people’s armed struggle will end their suffering.
The Myanmar regime has once again delivered an affront to the entire population, with the executions of four democracy activists: (...)
Myanmar’s military regime has committed yet another war crime by conducting airstrikes on Thursday on four villages in Tabayin Township, Sagaing Region that killed two civilians and forced over 10,000 people from a dozen villages to flee their homes.
On Thursday afternoon, regime forces arrived (...)
The Venom Commando unit of the Karen National Defense Organization (KNDO) and allied resistance forces launched their attack on Myanmar junta’s Ukayit Hta outpost in Myawaddy Township near the Thai border in Karen State on June 26. Both sides suffered casualties and the resistance forces were (...)
Myanmar regime-appointed Foreign Minster Wunna Maung Lwin with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in China in April 2022
Veteran author and journalist Bertil Lintner has been reporting on Myanmar for decades. In this wide-ranging interview he talks to The Irrawaddy editor-in-chief Aung Zaw about (...)
A United Nations (UN) human rights expert has slammed the international community for its inability to tackle the Myanmar junta’s brutal campaign of violence against the people of Myanmar.
Tom Andrews, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, made the comments at a UN (...)
(2nd UPDATE) Victims demanding accountability are still in for a long wait, and the incoming Marcos government will have a lot to do with the pace of the ICC proceedings for the next six years
MANILA, Philippines – By requesting the International Criminal Court (ICC) Pre-Trial Chamber (PTC) to (...)
Myanmar’s parallel National Unity Government (NUG) has asked the international community to urgently provide material support to help end the junta’s daily atrocities and violence against the people, as the death toll at the hands of junta forces exceeded 2,000 this week.
“To date we have (...)
Bo Thanmani, an unsung hero of Myanmar’s Spring Revolution.
It was well past midnight, but resistance fighters in Shwebo, Upper Myanmar, were desperately searching for the corpses of their leader and two colleagues who were killed in action in fighting with junta troops.
After wading through a (...)
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.
A (...)
“After this revolution, I’m sure that citizens & the govt will accept LGBT people, as we have participated nationally in the revolution…I am sure the govt will consider LGBT people, & if not, we’ll fight for our rights.” Sue Sha Shinn Thant, LGBTQ activist
The International Day Against (...)
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 (...)
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