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Mawdaung Town in Tanintharyi Township, Tanintharyi Region, near the Thai border, has been captured by resistance forces, but ongoing junta airstrikes keep displaced residents from returning home. The KNU-led resistance coalition captured Mawdaung on November 14, and residents who fled during the intense fighting are now living as internally displaced people (IDPs). Although they want to return home, they cannot because the junta continues to bomb the resistance-controlled tow

According to officials from organizations assisting war refugees in southern Myanmar, displaced persons’ camps are facing increasing difficulties in receiving aid due to a significant decline in donor contributions. Over the past three months, in the Mon, Karen, and Tanintharyi regions, the military junta’s forces have intensified airstrikes, arson attacks, mortar shelling, and ground offensives, resulting in the destruction of homes and loss of civilian lives. As the number

A junta jet fighter dropped three 500-pound bombs on Bar Hta Lay and Nwa Tin Kote villages, both under Arakan Army (AA) control in Rathedaung Township, Arakan (Rakhine) State, on the morning of November 15, killing five civilians and injuring four others. “A junta jet fighter bombed Bar Hta Lay at around 10:00 am, and shortly after, it struck Nwa Tin Kote as well. The airstrikes caused serious damage, and people were killed,” said a Rathedaung Township resident. Two bombs str

Antonio Graceffo Recent actions by US President Donald Trump’s administration suggest a new Burma policy may be emerging, one that could benefit the pro-democracy forces. Targeted sanctions against junta-aligned groups like the DKBA and BGF, the creation of the Scam Center Strike Force, and the careful handling of the Starlink investigation all show a growing U.S. willingness to distinguish between junta proxies and resistance EAOs. These steps indicate Washington may be movi

Mizzima Tom Andrews, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, released a report 13 November titled “The Hidden Crisis: Disability Rights in Post-Coup Myanmar”, exposing the severe impact of the military junta’s violence on persons with disabilities. The statement is as follows. “Dozens of persons with disabilities have been burned alive in their own homes as junta forces carried out campaigns of mass arson throughout the country,” Andrews said. “

Mizzima Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing has bestowed honorary service medals on several businessmen, including Shwe Byain Phyu Group chairman U Thein Win Zaw, a figure linked to the Military Commission, the commission announced on November 14. The Military Commission said that U Thein Win Zaw, chairman of Shwe Byain Phyu Group and Atom Myanmar Limited; U Ohn Kyaw, chairman of Max Myanmar Group of Companies; U Kyaw Win, chairman of Shwe Than Lwin Company and a close assoc