ASEAN chair Indonesia will set up a special envoy’s office to deal with the post-coup crisis in Myanmar but not allow that country to hold the regional bloc hostage, Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said Wednesday. As holder of the Association of Southea…
A junta military airstrike on the Chin National Front headquarters in Chin State killed five of its soldiers and injured at least 10, locals told RFA.Five fighter jets attacked the headquarters at Camp Victoria in Thantlang township even though there w…
Myanmar’s junta met with three armed ethnic organizations over the weekend as part of a wider campaign to enlist support for an upcoming general election dismissed by democracy watchdogs as a military ploy to maintain power.Leaders from the United Wa S…
A court under the jurisdiction of Myanmar’s military junta has sentenced 116 Rohingya refugees to between two and five years in prison for traveling without documents after they left camps in Bangladesh and Rakhine state to try to get to Malaysia, sour…
The people of Myanmar suffered as the anti-junta armed resistance took on the military in 2022. It was a year in which not only democracy and human rights eroded in the aftermath of the February 2021 coup, but also one that saw an acute loss of civilian lives and destruction of private property. But widespread condemnation of the junta’s policies largely fell on deaf ears, as the military regime continued to rule with impunity. These were some of the most significant political developments in Myanmar this year: Ko Jimmy and Phyo Zayar Thaw At the beginning of 2022, the military
Junta troops killed seven residents of a village in central Myanmar’s Mandalay region, locals told RFA. The men were arrested on Saturday night and villagers found their bodies over the next two days. They identified the men as 62-year-old Sein Maung Myint; 50-year-old Sein Aung; 43-year-old Kyaw Tin; 37-year-old Swe Lin Aung; 38-year-old Myo Naing; 38-year-old Naing Win Swe; and 38-year-old Thu Kha, all from Yae Zin village in Ngazun township. They found four bodies just outside the village on Sunday morning, and the other three near a village 11.2 kilometers (7 miles) away the following day. All of the
Dozens of “dehydrated and exhausted” Rohingya refugees – all males – landed on the coast of Aceh Besar regency in Indonesia on Christmas Sunday after being at sea for about a month, local officials said. The FB Tarikul Islam 2, the boat carrying the 57 men, sprang a leak and its engine broke down, Aceh provincial police spokesman Winardy said. The wooden boat came ashore at Indra Patra beach in Ladong, a village in Aceh Besar. “They were forced to land and rest in Ladong because the boat’s hull was leaking and they ran out of food,” Winardy told BenarNews,
A secret military court in Myanmar’s Insein Prison on Wednesday sentenced two journalists and seven anti-coup protesters to a maximum three years in prison each with labor for “incitement,” family members and an attorney with knowledge of the situation said. The nine young people, including Kaung Set Lin and Mhu Yatanar Khat Moh Moh Tun – Myanmar Pressphoto Agency reporters – were arrested on Dec. 5 after soldiers crashed a military vehicle into crowds of peaceful anti-regime protesters in Yangon’s Kyimyindaing township in December 2021. They all had been held in pretrial detention for one year. The junta court prosecuted them
