News About Myanmar

Coup leader Min Aung Hlaing meets military officers in Loikaw in September 2024. / CINCDS The Myanmar military has quietly relocated its Eastern Central Command headquarters from Kholam in southern Shan State to Loikaw, the capital of Karenni (Kayah) State, closer to the regime’s nerve center of Naypyitaw. The move seems to be part of a mounting regime offensive against Karenni’s motley resistance including the Karenni Army (KA), the Karenni Nationalities Defense Force (KNDF)

Date – 1 October 2026 Since the 1 February 2021 coup, a total of (8,476) people, including pro-democracy activists and civilians, have been killed by the junta and pro-military groups during the Spring Revolution. A total of (32,034) people have been arrested by the junta for opposing their arbitrary seizure of power. Of those arrested, (14,910) are confirmed to still be in detention, while (7,779) remain to be verified. These are the numbers reported by the Assistance Associ

ULA/AA personnel burying the bodies of victims killed in the Kyauktaw bombing. Photo: ONN DMG Newsroom 1 October 2026, Kyauktaw Mass civilian killing incidents nationwide have risen to at least 115, including the recent bombing of India Market in Kyauktaw Town, according to data released by the Institute for Strategy and Policy – Myanmar (ISP-Myanmar). The research group reported that over the five years since the military coup, mass killing incidents involving 10 or more civ

Mizzima UK Under Secretary of State Baroness Rosalie Winterton has spoken out on the Myanmar junta’s recent massacre of civilians in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. Families are reported to be searching around a charred market in Kyauktaw in western Myanmar after a military airstrike killed 50 people, one of the deadliest recent bombardments in the civil war. Witnesses say the military’s air force raided the riverside commercial hub in Kyauktaw town in western Rakhine state around m

Alan Clements in Conversation with Mon Mon Myat INTRODUCTION Few political lives of the past half-century have been subjected to as dramatic an international reversal of narrative as that of Aung San Suu Kyi. For decades she embodied, for millions of Burmese and admirers around the world, the moral courage of nonviolent resistance to military dictatorship. The daughter of independence hero General Aung San, she emerged during Burma’s 1988 uprising, endured years of house arre

Mizzima Myanmar’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun, has urged UN member states to cut off and halt the supply of weapons, ammunition, aviation fuel, and dual-use (military-civilian) items to the military junta, highlighting the civilian casualties caused by a recent airstrike on a market in Kyauktaw, Rakhine State. Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun made these remarks during the high-level plenary meeting to commemorate and promote the Internationa