News About Myanmar

At approximately 6:00 PM today, October 10, the terrorist military junta launched an aerial attack dropping four bombs on Sin Aing Village in Wira Thani (Pauktaw) Township, Arakan State, killing six people including Muslims and injuring at least 10 others. The deceased have been identified as Daw Win May (95), Daw Oo Mya Than (65), Daw Yi Yi Than (50), a Muslim woman, a young child, and Mamauk Chaw Yeik (20). Among the injured is Ma Khine Khine Win (aka) Wine Sein Ma (24), a

Myanmar migrant workers in Malaysia took their protest online this week as President Min Aung Hlaing made an official visit to Kuala Lumpur on 7 and 8 October. Min Aung Hlaing led the February 2021 coup that triggered Myanmar’s civil war and became president in April after a widely criticised election. His visit followed the return of 1,476 Myanmar nationals from Malaysian immigration detention, despite warnings from the UN refugee agency and rights groups. Ahead of the trip,

Insight Myanmar Jostein Kobbeltvedt, director of the Rafto Foundation for Human Rights based in Bergen, Norway, situates himself within a long, institutional tradition of international human rights advocacy, according to the Insight Myanmar Podcast. The Foundation awards the Rafto Prize to human rights defenders around the world. In this conversation with Insight Myanmar Podcast, he speaks about one of the most consequential recognitions in the history of Myanmar’s democracy

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Narinjara News, October 11, 2026 A woman died of a sudden cardiac arrest and four others were injured following renewed Myanmar junta airstrikes on Myebonand Pauktaw (Wirathani) townships on October 10 and 11, 2026. The deceased woman has been identified as Daw Shwe Sein Phyu, 50, from the Kantha Nyu Ward in Myebon. According to local residents, she suffered a fatal cardiac arrest after being severely shocked by the intense blast radius and sound of the explosions. The airstr

[From L-R] Myanmar activists: Bhone Thit, a former political prisoner and democracy activist with the University Students' Unions Alumni Force; Chan, a founding member of Women Alliance Burma; and Stan, the secretary of the Anti-Junta Forces Coordination Committee Mandalay, accepting the sixth Forum 2000 International Award for Courage and Responsibility on behalf of the General Strike Coordination Body and three pro-democracy activists inside Myanmar in Prague, Czech Republi