News About Myanmar

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

On November 20, World Children’s Day, human rights activists in war-torn Arakan (Rakhine) State renewed calls for urgent action to ensure that children in the conflict-stricken region can access their most basic rights. According to social activists, children in Arakan State continue to face life-threatening dangers from airstrikes, widespread food shortages, and the collapse of the education system. Many are also deprived of essential healthcare, including full vaccination,

Junta aircraft bombed Thuklai (Htuklai) Village in Tedim Township, Chin State, destroying several buildings, including dormitories in the village high school compound and several religious structures. Locals reported that the junta carried out the airstrike at around 12:21 am on November 20. “The bombings started just after midnight. The first one hit at around 12:21 am, and about ten minutes later we heard another explosion. Our whole house shook, and the windows and doors b

Mizzima Family members are urgently appealing for the search and rescue of a Pakistani national trafficked into an online scam compound operated by a Chinese criminal syndicate in the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA)-controlled portion of Myawaddy Township, Karen State, along the Thai-Myanmar border. Twenty-year-old Abdul Manan disappeared at the Thai-Myanmar border shortly after arriving in Thailand in December 2024. His family later received messages from him saying

Mizzima On 19 November, Fortify Rights released a new report detailing how Myanmar’s military junta is carrying out deadly and unlawful airstrikes on civilians in Karenni State and along the Karenni-Shan State border. The strikes have destroyed schools, churches, medical clinics, and displacement camps ahead of the junta’s planned “sham elections.”  The statement is as follows. The U.N. Security Council and individual U.N. member states should immediately impose comprehensive

Mizzima The Myanmar junta carried out an airstrike on farmland near Min Oh village in southeastern Kani Township, Sagaing Region, killing one woman and injuring two others, according to local residents. Two jet fighters bombed the area at 3:49 pm and 4 pm on 18 November, striking farm huts along the Chindwin River. “Two jet fighters flew one after another, firing cannon and dropping bombs. We heard three explosions from inside the bomb shelter. A woman who was harvesting crop