News About Myanmar

Anti-coup demonstrators march during a street rally in Yangon’s Sanchaung Township following the formation of the National Unity Government in April, 2021. (Credit: DVB) The National Unity Government (NUG) has rejected regime media reports on Tuesday alleging that Naypyidaw authorities infiltrated its online fundraising portal, the People’s Revolution Supply Family (PRF), to identify over 2,700 donors. In an official statement issued on Tuesday, the NUG accused the regime of

Photo - Than Soe In Kyauktaw Township, Mrauk-U District, Arakan State, a jet fighter belonging to the fascist military junta intentionally targeted and bombed the crowded public surroundings of the India Market and the Kisapanadi Bridge on September 28 between 12:10 PM and 12:14 PM. During the bombing incident at Kyauktaw's India Market, a total of 50 innocent civilians including pedestrians, shoppers, vendors, cargo workers, and members of the Muslim community were killed in

High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk speaks at a press conference at the U.N. Offices in Geneva, Dec. 9, 2022.(photocrd) UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has condemned a deadly Myanmar military airstrike on a market in Kyauktaw Township, Rakhine State, which reportedly killed at least 50 civilians and injured dozens (60) more. The attack reportedly took place around midday on Monday, September 28, during a busy period at the market, which contains m

Photo: KIA troops. A KIA source told Mizzima that a captain from the military junta’s forces was killed on September 28 in the Indawgyi region of Kachin State after the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) launched a heavy-weapon attack on a joint column comprising junta troops, the Shanni Nationalities Army (SNA), and pro-junta militias. (File photo) Mizzima A captain from the Myanmar military junta forces was killed when the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) launched an artillery at

Photo – It is reported that on September 27, the military junta fired heavy weapons toward villages, killing an elderly woman from Naung Ta La village and injuring a villager. (Local resident) Mizzima Artillery Battalion (312), under Military Operations Command No. 12 (MOC-12) based in Kawkareik, Karen State, was attacked with rockets and drones on 26 September by the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) and the Karen National Defence Organisation (KNDO), both operating unde

Mizzima UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on 29 September deplored military airstrikes that reportedly killed at least 50 people, including vendors, customers, transport workers and other civilians – among them children and women, at a market in Myanmar’s northwestern Rakhine State. In one of the deadliest attacks carried out in Rakhine since the coup of February 2021, the military reportedly hit Kyauktaw township at around midday on Monday. At least 58 people were also repor