Myanmar’s escalating conflict and the worst violence since the military takeover in 2021 are having a devastating impact on human rights, fundamental freedoms and basic needs of millions of people – as well as “alarming spillover effects” in the region, U.N. officials said Thursday. Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Khaled Khiari told the U.N. Security … Read more
Myanmar’s opposition National Unity Government (NUG) has denounced the military’s announcement that it will begin enforcing a 2010 military conscription law, vowing to resist its implementation. In a statement yesterday, the NUG, which is coordinating the nationwide resistance to the military junta, said that the February 10 announcement was “unlawful and has no legal effect.” … Read more
In the early morning of February 1, 2021, the Myanmar military sent armored vehicles through the capital, Naypyidaw, arresting the country’s elected civilian leaders. Three years on, the junta’s relentless efforts to consolidate power have caused a spiraling human rights and humanitarian catastrophe. Junta security forces have killed over 4,000 people, arrested over 25,000, and … 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
Advertisement The Myanmar military chooses its battles wisely: rather than facing resistance forces head-on, the junta engages in indirect confrontation with heavy weapons systems. It bombs and shells indiscriminately, striking civilians, including women and children, when they cannot directly strike their enemies. Despite persistent warring between the military and ethnic resistance organizations (EROs), the junta’s … Read more
Advertisement In early May, 20 Rohingya Muslims and government officials from Bangladesh recently visited Myanmar’s Rakhine State in an effort to urge their voluntary homecoming, which can be regarded as a major development in terms of the long-stalled Rohingya repatriation. The Rohingya delegation traveled across the transboundary Naf River to visit a community in Rakhine … Read more
Members of the Karenni National Women’s Organization take part in a team-building exercise in an undisclosed region of Karenni State, Myanmar, January 2023. Credit: Facebook/KNWO Advertisement In Karenni State, every day has become a struggle for survival for the thousands displaced across Myanmar’s least populated state. Since the attempted coup on February 1, 2021, crimes … Read more