June 2021

Myanmar’s shadow government has compiled more than 400,000 pieces of evidence of atrocities committed by the military regime against civilians since it overthrew the government in February and is preparing to file an international lawsuit against the junta for crimes against humanity, its spokesman said. National Unity Government (NUG) spokesman Dr. Sasa told a news conference Friday that the evidence is sufficient to prosecute the military government and its leader Sr. Gen. Min Aung Hlaing at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity. The military overthrew the country’s democratically elected government on Feb. 1 and has been violently

With COVID-19 infections and deaths rising in Myanmar and its neighbors, deposed national leader Aung San Suu Kyi has called on citizens in the military-ruled country to strictly observe all precautions aimed at preventing the pandemic’s spread, her lawyers said on Monday. Following a court hearing in the capital Naypyidaw directed by the military junta that overthrew Aung San Suu Kyi and her democratically elected civilian government on Feb. 1, defense attorney Min Min Soe said the 76-year-old leader had asked him to relay a message to the people of Myanmar to take good care of themselves amid the rising

  Militiamen killed at least nine junta soldiers in northwest Myanmar’s war-torn Sagaing region over the weekend in a two-pronged attack on a convoy heading to Kalay township, while 3,000 villagers fled the area amid intensified raids on civilian homes and in anticipation of a major military offensive, fighters said Monday. The Kalay branch of the People’s Defense Force (PDF) militia said in a statement that two of its units ambushed the convoy around 1:00 p.m. Sunday between Khway Kyin and Than Pho villages, some 15 miles from the center of the township of 400,000, killing the nine soldiers in

NEW YORK – For the second consecutive year, the lingering pandemic consigned New York’s annual Pride march Sunday to the virtual world, even as its alter-ego, the Queer Liberation March, took its edgier message through the streets of Manhattan.The NYC …

Dr. Rania Awaad was attending a virtual religion program this Ramadan when discussion turned to an unexpected question: Is it religiously acceptable to say a prayer for someone who died by suicide?Suicide is a complex and delicate topic that Awaad, as …