News About Myanmar

AFP As a Rohingya exile who abandoned his life in Malaysia to return to Myanmar, Ismail’s bleak prospects may portend what awaits others caught in Kuala Lumpur’s migrant crackdown. Weeks ago, the 25-year-old was eking out a living at a Malaysia fish market, one of legions of the Muslim minority group who left Myanmar to escape violence some monitors say amounted to genocide. But a wave of anti-Rohingya sentiment, migrant arrests and a government plan to repatriate Myanmar nat

Sai Wansai The military junta in Myanmar has transformed its recruitment drive into a sophisticated machine of terror, stripping the nation’s youth of their futures to prop up a crumbling regime. What began as a legal mandate has devolved into a lawless racket of abduction, where ward administrators, police, and soldiers operate as localized cartels hunting down students, workers, and even political prisoners. Under the guise of national service, the regime led by Gen. Min Au

Mizzima The Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM) has collected and analysed extensive evidence that establishes that many serious international crimes continue to be committed across Myanmar. In Rakhine State, the situation remains extremely volatile and dangerous for all communities. Amid the ongoing conflict, civilians are frequently the victims of aerial bombings, artillery shelling, drone attacks, arbitrary detention, sexual and gender-based crimes, tort

Mizzima In Kalay Prison, Sagaing Region, inmates must pay bribes ranging from 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 MMK (10 to 15 lakhs) to prison staff and authorities to obtain permission for outside hospitalisation, according to a statement released 24 September by the Political Prisoners Network Myanmar (PPNM). PPNM stated that during a medical examination conducted inside the prison by specialist physicians from the Kalay Public General Hospital, it was confirmed that 80 prisoners were

Sin Min Zan, Narinjara, 25 September 2026 At least seven civilians, including several Muslim children, were injured early Friday morning during a series of nighttime airstrikes launched by the Myanmar military junta in Rakhine State’s Kyauktaw Township. The aerial bombardment occurred between 2:00 AM and 2:45 AM on September 25, according to local sources. A military Y-12 transport aircraft reportedly dropped nearly 30 bombs in rapid succession, targeting Pyidawtha Ward, Paik

Photo: Crd The Myanmar military regime has been covertly deploying hundreds of reinforcement troops to its tactical operations command in Phayathonzu (Three Pagodas Pass), Karen State, utilizing civilian vehicles and passenger buses, local drivers and sources report. Junta personnel—including officers and newly drafted conscripts—have been arriving in successive batches wearing civilian clothes to disguise their movement. Drivers operating along the Phayathonzu-Mawlamyine Roa