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Sagaing Region has seen some of the strongest and most widespread resistance to the Myanmar military’s February 2021 attempted coup. In the face of the ongoing crisis in Sagaing, where villagers have been subjected to fear, violence and destruction of their villages at the hands of the military (...)
On 1 February 2021, the day Myanmar’s military launched an early morning raid to arrest key politicians and seize political power, a seemingly innocuous post appeared on a Facebook group devoted to Myanmar agriculture. Memifed with bright blue colours and large font, the text read: “I’m (...)
On May 19, 2023, as a civil society member, Wai Wai Nu spoke at the United Nations Security Council Arria-Formula Meeting on Myanmar before Member States of the Council, ASEAN, ASEAN Dialogue Partners, and bordering countries.
I thank the United Kingdom for convening this Arria-Formula (...)
Cyclone Mocha left a trail of devastation in the Bangladesh refugee camps and Rakhine State according to a press conference held today by Women’s Peace Network, and led by members of the affected communities in Bangladesh’s Kutupalong refugee camp and Rakhine State’s Maungdaw and Sittwe townships. (...)
The health ministry of the civilian National Unity Government (NUG) says the United Nations and foreign governments have turned a blind eye to violations of the Geneva Conventions and other international laws by Myanmar’s regime.
It said no meaningful action to stop junta violence had been (...)
‘Blame the EVs, not the power cuts’
The junta’s Consumer Affairs Department has become a laughingstock among Myanmar people after announcing that consumers can file complaints if they are not satisfied with their new electric vehicles (EVs) or chargers. The country has been experiencing (...)
Russia has shipped three million barrels of crude oil, over 100,000 barrels per day, to China via a Myanmar pipeline since February, according to Energy Intelligence, a UK-based monitoring group and leading provider of global energy information and data.
Based on independent port data of (...)
We, Women’s Peace Network, strongly condemn the Burmese military’s recent airstrikes, on the morning of April 11, 2023, against civilians commemorating the opening of an administrative office in Pa Zi Gyi, a village in Kanbalu Township, Sagaing Region. The military launched bombs from its fighter (...)
Since seizing power in a 2021 coup, Myanmar’s military has killed more than 3,000 civilians and pro-democracy activists. But the army has struggled to contain an armed resistance movement.
A village elder stands outside a school destroyed by aircraft fire in Shan State. Mai Thomas/SOPA (...)
Many of the victims were members of the public who were offered food as part of the ceremony, which also coincided with the start of Myanmar’s traditional New Year’s celebrations
Photo: The site of the junta’s airstrikes on Pa Zi Gyi, in Sagaing Region’s Kanbalu Township, on April 11. The bodies (...)
• The junta’s move to shut access to the MyCO database will shield military-linked shareholdings and help establish front companies to evade sanctions
• The inability to do due diligence gives foreign investors itching to return all the plausible deniability they need to get in bed with the (...)
@The Special Advisory Council for Myanmar (SAC-M) said in September last year that the regime only controlled 72 out of the country’s 330 townships.
In a rare public admission that the country is not fully under the junta’s control, regime chief Min Aung Hlaing said at a National Defense and (...)
Representatives of seven signatories to the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) this week flew to Naypyitaw to hold talks with senior junta generals on holding a peace conference and amending the military-drafted constitution.
The informal talks between the regime-appointed National (...)
Myanmar’s military regime recently dissolved 40 political parties, including the National League for Democracy (NLD) led by jailed civilian leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. But while the junta’s move drew widespread condemnation from the international community, China, Russia and the Association of (...)
One year ago, the United States made a historic determination: the atrocities committed against the Rohingya by the Burmese military constitute genocide and crimes against humanity. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made this announcement in front of Rohingya and Holocaust survivors at the (...)
As the US steps up its engagement with Myanmar’s shadow government and signals a willingness to support the democratic opposition and ethnic armed groups, neighboring China is taking steps to counter any increase in US influence. But is it adopting the right strategy?
China’s newly appointed (...)
The Rohingya community is facing a deteriorating situation in Myanmar and across South and Southeast Asia, according to a new report by Women’s Peace Network (WPN): “We are targeted for being Rohingya in Myanmar and everywhere.”
The report’s launch marked the one-year anniversary of the United (...)
We, Women’s Peace Network, take this International Women’s Day to reaffirm our solidarity with women across the world and our resilient resistance for equity and liberation. From Iran to Ukraine, women are the creators, innovators, and leaders of our intersectional movement for a world free of (...)
On 1er February 2021, the Burmese army (Tatmadaw) broke off its governmental cohabitation with the National League for Democracy (NLD), incarcerating its leaders, and then plunged the entire country into an atrocious asymmetric war. Two years later, it has still not succeeded in imposing its (...)
Justice For Myanmar welcomes sanctions imposed by the EU on members of the terrorist Myanmar military junta, its arms brokers and jet fuel suppliers, more than two years after the military’s illegal coup attempt.
Arms brokers targeted in the latest round of sanctions include Aung Hlaing Oo, Sit (...)
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