News About Myanmar

Insight Myanmar Mohammed Siraj, a Rohingya researcher, political analyst, educator, and aspiring legal scholar, is a refugee living in Bangladesh whose work focuses on citizenship, constitutional reform, education, and human rights. He has taught in refugee settings, led projects at the Rohingya Academic Research Institute, and studied the oppressive legal and political structures that, in his view, produced the Rohingya crisis. From the beginning, his central claim is clear:

Mizzima The Burmese Women’s Union (BWU) says the illegal military junta have continued to commit various forms of severe human rights violations that amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. For women, due to the various forms of human rights violations that they face on a daily basis, including conflict-related sexual violence, many have lost their lives. As of January 1 to June 30, 2026, 332 women have been killed. The reported data has been monitored and collected

Sun Lee For seventy million people, the Mekong River isn’t scenery. It’s dinner. It’s income. It’s the reason a village exists where it does. Now, for the first time, arsenic has been confirmed in the river’s mainstream sediment not just its tributaries and the trail of toxic mud leads straight back to a mining boom that China created, exported, and continues to profit from. From Beijing’s Backyard to Myanmar’s Frontier: The story starts with a clean-up but not the kind that

Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun speaks at a rally in support of him continuing in the role as Myanmar’s Permanent Representative to the U.N. in New York City on Sept. 20, 2025. (Credit: DVB) Members of the Myanmar diaspora across the United States are preparing for a series of nationwide public rallies this September. The campaign aims to ensure that Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun—a staunch critic of the military regime—retains his seat as Myanmar’s Permanent Representative to the United Na

East Timor's Bendito dos Santos Freitas, Vietnam's Le Hoai Trung, Malaysia's Shamsul Azri Abu Bakar, Thailand's Sihasak Phuangketkeow, Philippines' Theresa Lazaro, Singapore's Vivian Balakrishnan, Brunei's Erywan Yusof, Indonesia's Sugiono, Laos' Thongsavanh Phomvihane and Myanmar's regime Foreign Minister Tin Maung Swe at an informal meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers in Bangkok, Thailand, on July 12. (Credit: Thailand Ministry of Foreign Affairs) ASEAN Foreign Ministers mee

In a rare public acknowledgement of an escalating nationwide campaign, the military regime has confirmed it is removing statues of General Aung San, the country’s independence hero and father of jailed State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi. Regime spokesperson Khaing Khaing Soe stated on July 10 that authorities have been inspecting monuments in over 100 townships. She claimed the removals are not a wholesale erasure of the General’s legacy, but rather a review to address statues