Resistance forces in Myanmar have launched audacious drone attacks on the capital Naypyidaw, the nerve-center of the military junta, though opposition and military sources offered differing accounts of the attack. Reuters cited a report from the military-run Myawaddy TV station claiming that an attempt by “terrorists” to destroy “important locations” in Naypyidaw had been foiled. … Read more
Magazine Three years after the coup, and several months after the beginning of a major resistance offensive, Myanmar under Min Aung Hlaing is locked into a course of continued conflict. In this Mar. 3, 2021, file photo, an anti-coup protester displays defaced images of Senior General Min Aung Hlaing in Mandalay, Myanmar, March 3, 2021. … Read more
Myanmar’s military junta has extended the country’s state of emergency by another six months, again delaying a general election it has promised to hold – though it remains unlikely to ever happen. In a statement cited by the AFP news agency, the regime’s National Defence and Security Council (NDSC) agreed yesterday to the extension, which … Read more
Myanmar’s military junta has sentenced six brigadier generals to death and sentences of life imprisonment following their surrender to resistance forces in northern Shan State earlier this month, according to local media reports. Citing a “credible military source,” the Chindwin News Agency reported yesterday that the brigadier generals were sentenced by a military court in … Read more
The head of Myanmar’s military junta met yesterday with the newly appointed special envoy from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), state media reported, as the military continued to suffer losses in the country’s west and northeast. According to a report today in the Global New Light of Myanmar, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, … Read more
Since late last week, senior Chinese officials have held a flurry of talks with Myanmar’s military administration focusing on border security, after an ethnic armed group completed its capture of the Kokang region in northern Shan State. According to a statement from China’s Foreign Ministry, Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong visited Myanmar during January 4-6, … Read more
Myanmar’s junta leader Min Aung Hlaing has called on armed ethnic groups involved in the ongoing offensive in the country’s northeast to put down their weapons and solve their problems “politically.” The junta chief told a government meeting on Monday that “if armed organizations keep on being foolish, residents of the relevant regions will suffer … Read more
Germany’s Federal Public Prosecutor has declined to open an investigation into genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity in Myanmar filed by a human rights group earlier this year. In a statement yesterday, the advocacy organization Fortify Rights, which filed the complaint in January, said that it had been informed by the prosecutor on October … Read more
Filipino human rights lawyer Romel Bagares, center, and another lawyer representing Burmese complainants Gilbert Andres, left, files the criminal complaint against Myanmar’s top generals at the Department of Justice in Manila, Philippines on Wednesday Oct. 25, 2023. Credit: AP Photo/Aaron Favila Advertisement Relatives of victims of alleged war crimes committed by Myanmar’s military have filed … Read more
Advertisement Yesterday, The Irrawaddy magazine published an article detailing the recent rise in anti-Chinese incidents in Myanmar, following the visit of Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang to the country at the start of May. According to the report, Qin’s visit, the first by a top-level Chinese government official since the coup, was followed by spotfire … Read more