News About Myanmar

With the junta’s staged election only days away, coup leader Min Aung Hlaing has warned that refusing to vote amounts to rejecting “progress toward democracy.” He delivered the remark on Saturday in Magwe while addressing officers and military families—the only audience still obliged to listen. His warning comes as the junta’s election commission struggles to drum up support for the December 28 poll amid clear signs the public has no interest in legitimizing military rule. In

Date – 22 December 2025 Since the 1 February 2021 coup, a total of (7,625) people, including pro-democracy activists and civilians, have been killed by the junta and pro-military groups during the Spring Revolution.  Since the coup, a total of (30,169) people have been arrested by the junta in relation to its seizure of power. (22,668) are currently in detention, (11,416) of whom are serving sentences.  These are the numbers verified by the Assistance Association for Politica

Late one night last month Iang Za Kim heard explosions in a neighbouring village, then fighter jets flying overhead. She ran out of her home to see smoke rising from a distance. "We were terrified. We thought the junta's planes would bomb us too. So we grabbed what we could – some food and clothes and ran into the jungles surrounding our village." Iang's face quivers as she recounts the story of what happened on 26 November in K-Haimual, her village in Myanmar's western Chin

Despite airstrikes and a massive build-up of ground troops, the regime continues to struggle to retake positions near its Nat Yay Kan air defence base

A career in the criminal industry of online fraud—known locally as “Kyar Phyant”—has become an alluring option for many of Myanmar’s young people, who say they were not coerced into it but voluntarily sought it out for the potential income

Youth representatives from 108 organizations in Karenni State called on residents to boycott the regime’s 2025-26 elections, calling political party candidates as “traitors to the Karenni people.” Khun Thomas, head of the Karenni Interim Executive Council (IEC) Youth Affairs Department, told DVB that a meeting bringing together all 108 organizations was held at an undisclosed location Dec. 18-20. ' The National Unity Government (NUG), a group established after the military co