News About Myanmar

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) 11-member regional bloc will find it difficult to re-engage with Myanmar even after its upcoming election, the Thai foreign minister said on Tuesday, calling for the release of the country’s detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Myanmar is scheduled to hold a multi-phase general election starting on December 28 amid a raging civil war, an exercise that critics have derided as a sham to extend the control of the military th

Rights groups on Tuesday slammed the Trump administration’s decision to end protected status for Myanmar citizens due to the country’s “notable progress in governance and stability,” even though it remains mired in a bloody civil war and the head of its military regime faces possible U.N. war crimes charges. In her announcement Monday ending temporary protection from deportation for citizens of Myanmar, also known as Burma, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem cited the mi

A Myanmar Witness investigation has confirmed that a Myanmar junta raid on the KK Park scam compound in Myawaddy Township, Karen State in October triggered a sequence of events including the mass flight of people from the area, reported explosions inside the complex, and the shutdown of more than 2,500 Starlink devices in Myanmar. Myanmar’s junta-controlled media announced on 20 October that its troops had entered the notorious cyber-scam hub and seized 30 Starlink units. The

Three internally displaced people (IDPs), all women, were killed in artillery shelling by the junta and its allied Pa-O National Organisation (PNO) in Pekon Township, southern Shan State, near the Karenni State border. On November 22, seven IDPs returning from terrace farms near Bawyan Village, west of Pekon Township, were struck by junta-PNO artillery fire, resulting in the deaths of three. “There were skirmishes nearby that day. Seven IDPs were hit by artillery while return

The junta, conducting military operations in southern Thayetchaung Township in Tanintharyi Region, has been repeatedly burning houses in Mindat Village. A junta column of about 200 soldiers began carrying out arson attacks on November 23, a Mindat villager told KIC. “As all the villagers had already fled, the soldiers just set the village on fire as they pleased. Some of us wanted to go back and check the situation, but we didn’t dare, fearing we might run straight into the j

A monastery, a school and several homes were destroyed in a series of artillery and drone strikes carried out by junta forces in conflict-ridden Kyaukphyu Township, Arakan (Rakhine) State. The attacks targeted Sinbote Ywarma and Kyungyi villages, located near Maday Island, an area hosting major Chinese investment projects, beginning around 11 pm on November 22. According to villagers, a junta naval vessel fired at least seven artillery shells, igniting Hsinbote Ywama monaster