News About Myanmar

Mizzima Justice For Myanmar (JFM) said Malaysian companies, including two with links to state bodies, have supplied or sought to supply aircraft parts and repair services to Myanmar’s military since 2023, as junta leader Min Aung Hlaing visits Malaysia. In an investigation based on leaked documents and trade records, JFM said FJ Global Aeroparts (M) Sdn Bhd sought to supply parts for the military’s K-8W jets, Orlan-10E drones and Russian-origin helicopters. It said the compan

Mizzima Min Thu, deputy minister of the Myanmar junta’s Home Affairs Ministry, said on 6 October that criminal cases have been opened inside Myanmar against anti-junta activists, supporters and media outlets based abroad, and that the junta is working to have Interpol issue Red Notices for them. Mizzima is among the outlets he named. He was replying in the Pyithu Hluttaw (lower house) to a question from Than Than Aye, a lawmaker from the military-backed Union Solidarity and D

Mizzima Myanmar’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun, called on the international community on 6 October to reject the Myanmar military junta completely, hold the perpetrators of crimes accountable, and stand resolutely with the people of Myanmar. He made the appeal at a meeting of the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) of the 81st session of the UN General Assembly in New York. He said that in the more than five years sin

Hnin Nwe Ni Narinjara, October 7, 2026 Thirteen individuals who completed their prison sentences and were released from the Sittwe correctional facility were immediately rearrested at the prison gate and handed new 10-year sentences under Section 50(j) of the Counter-Terrorism Law. According to a source close to the situation, the group had just finished serving three-year sentences under Section 17(1) of the Unlawful Associations Act. They were released on October 1, but pol

A screenshot from junta-controlled state television shows Maj.-Gen. Min Thu, the regime’s deputy home affairs minister, addressing parliament in Naypyitaw on October 6 Myanmar Now and four other news outlets were named in parliament as culprits seeking to discredit the regime with “false reports”

One of the gold dredgers killed by airstrikes near the Thaphanseik Dam on October 5 (Photo: Supplied) That attack targeted small-scale gold-mining operations that generate income for local resistance forces