News About Myanmar

The Myanmar regime said Thursday it detained over a thousand foreigners during three days of raids on the notorious Shwe Kokko scam hub in Myawaddy Township, Karen State this week. Shwe Kokko, which lies near the Myanmar-Thailand border, was raided by troops from the junta’s military and its Karen Border Guard Force (BGF) militia on Tuesday, a month after the junta’s purported raid on KK Park, another scam center in a different part of Myawaddy Township. Both Shwe Kokko and K

Date – 21 November 2025 Since the 1 February 2021 coup, a total of (7,484) people, including pro-democracy activists and civilians, have been killed by the junta and pro-military groups during the Spring Revolution. Since the coup, a total of (30,010) people have been arrested by the junta in relation to its seizure of power. (22,690) are currently in detention, (11,404) of whom are serving sentences. According to the latest information gathered and confirmed by AAPP, (85) pe

There were reportedly children among the fatalities from an unprovoked junta air raid, which locals were not expecting after a period of calm in the area

Bombs also hit a NUG-run detention centre as military steps up nationwide attacks on civilians across Sagaing and beyond

A day after regime leader Min Aung Hlaing visited the Karen State capital of Hpa-An last week, two sources said army officers met members of the Karen Border Guard Force (BGF) with a directive: they had to suppress burgeoning scam centres on the Thai-Myanmar border immediately. Online scam operations along the frontier are part of Southeast Asian criminal networks spanning countries including Myanmar and Cambodia that generate billions of dollars every year by defrauding peop

Myanmar’s military regime extended its crackdown on online scam activities to a second major location, detaining hundreds of foreigners and seizing thousands of mobile phones used to carry out the fraud, regime media reported Wednesday. Myanmar is notorious for hosting cyberscam operations responsible for bilking people all over the world, which usually involve gaining victims’ confidence online with romantic ploys and bogus investment schemes. Authorities raided a major scam