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Ko Jimmy, veteran pro-democracy activist and leading member of 88 Generation Students Group (left) and Ko Phyo Zeya Thaw, former NLD lawmaker (right). Photo: Twitter/IrrawaddyNews
June 9, 2022
Myanmar’s military junta announced on 3 June 2022, that it would execute four people whose appeals were rejected following grossly unjust closed-door...
This photo taken on Sept 22, 2017 in Sittwe, in Myanmar's Rakhine state, shows boys waiting for food near a makeshift kitchen outside a disused football stadium in an IDP camp sheltering hundreds of Hindu villagers displaced by communal violence. Photo: AIDAN JONES / AFP
June 9, 2022
According to campaign group Progressive Voice the international community risks allowing the junta to weaponise aid by putting all aid through the...
June 8, 2022
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the Thai government to provide recently rescued Rohingya asylum seekers with assistance and immediate access...
June 7, 2022
The Sagaing Myanmar Defence Force (MDF- (Sagaing)) has said that if the Military Council starts judicially executing people that it will respond with...
June 7, 2022
Myanmar's junta on Monday expressed its 'utmost indignation' at a French diplomatic snub describing it as an illegitimate government, warning it...
June 6, 2022
While the Myanmar military junta says it is working to provide “better education” for students in the country, school enrollment for the 2022-23...
June 6, 2022
Fifty-nine Rohingya people have been discovered on a Thai island, saying they were abandoned by traffickers en route to Malaysia, a senior police...
Pro-democracy activist Kyaw Min Yu (left) and former lawmaker Phyo Zeya Thaw (right) would be the first people to be judicially executed in Myanmar in decades. Photo: AFP
June 6, 2022
Myanmar's junta will execute a former member of Aung San Suu Kyi's party and a prominent democracy activist, both of whom were convicted of terrorism...
A woman carries a bag as she walks near the Tin Nyo village's internally displaced persons (IDP) shelter in Mrauk U township area, Rakhine State, western Myanmar. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA
June 6, 2022
The National Unity Government (NUG) together with the Karenni National Progressive Party, Karen National Union and Chin National Front have expressed...
June 6, 2022
Myanmar junta troops have torched hundreds of buildings during a three-day raid in the country's north, local media and residents said, as the...
Students wait at a school entrance in Sittwe, capital of western Rakhine State on June 1, 2021. Schools in Myanmar opened on June 1 for the first time since the military seized power, but teachers and students are set to defy the junta's calls for full classrooms in a show of resistance. Photo: AFP
June 6, 2022
Myanmar students began a new school year on Thursday, with classrooms becoming the latest battleground in the polarised country -- the junta is...
This file undated handout photograph released by Myanmar's Military Information Team on January 21, 2022 shows democracy activist Kyaw Min Yu, also known as 'Jimmy', who rose to prominence during Myanmar's 1988 student uprising and was arrested in an overnight raid in October 2021. Photo: AFP
June 6, 2022
The United Nations says it is troubled by the plans of the Myanmar junta to execute a number of citizens including pro-democracy activists. Four...