Commentary | Amid Rumors Myanmar Junta Plans to Hang More …
WEB2 days ago · Amid Rumors Myanmar Junta Plans to Hang More Opponents, Int’l Community Must Act. Myanmar people this week have been gripped by a rumor that the junta is preparing to hang five anti-regime activists who have been sentenced to death. A list of the five, including a woman, who are on death row after being convicted of the 2021 …
Myanmar Junta Adds to Its Crimes With Neglect of Typhoon Victims
WEB5 days ago · Sixteen years later, under a new military regime that grabbed power in 2021, Myanmar again finds itself devastated by a natural disaster. Deadly flash floods and landslides—unleashed by torrential rains triggered by the remnants of Typhon Yagi—have wreaked havoc on nine of the country’s states and regions, including the regime’s nerve …
Flood Crisis Offers Chance of Redemption for UN Agencies in …
WEB3 days ago · Residents walk through flood waters in Pyinmana, Naypyitaw Region on Sept. 13, 2024. / AFP. UN agencies in Myanmar are facing a test of their principles and resolve. Since the military coup in February 2021, the UN agencies have seriously failed to assist the Myanmar people, who have been systematically targeted and terrorized by the military.
Myanmar Junta Taps China for Drone Tech After Losing Territory …
WEB4 days ago · Myanmar junta Defense Minister General Tin Aung San has sought cooperation with high-tech drone manufacturers in China as his regime escalates airstrikes on territories lost to ethnic armies. Tin Aung San attended the 11th Beijing Xiangshan Forum in China from Sept. 12-15 at the invitation of his Chinese counterpart Admiral …
Where’s the Myanmar military amid the flood rescue mission?
WEB4 days ago · Founded in 1993 by a group of Myanmar journalists living in exile in Thailand, The Irrawaddy is a leading source of reliable news, information, and analysis on Burma/Myanmar and the Southeast Asian region. From its inception, The Irrawaddy has been an independent news media group, unaffiliated with any political party, …
Myanmar Flood Victims Told to Return Home as Junta Boss Frets …
WEB3 days ago · Min Aung Hlaing has instructed disaster victims, many of whom were left homeless by floods and landslides, to return home, despite his regime’s inability to extend rescue efforts even to flood-hit areas of Naypyitaw, the junta’s administrative capital. The death toll rose to 268 by Wednesday, according to the regime, after nine regions and ...
Myanmar’s Civilian Government and Allies Call for UN Yagi Flood …
WEB4 days ago · Myanmar’s civilian National Unity Government (NUG) and allied anti-regime groups have urged the United Nations and international community to provide humanitarian aid to Typhoon Yagi victims. Asia’s most powerful storm this year and the subsequent floods and landslides have left at least 1,000 civilians dead and missing in Mandalay and …
Eight IDPs Killed as Floods Submerge Villages in Myanmar’s Inle …
WEB5 days ago · Flooding has inundated nine states and regions across Myanmar following last week’s torrential rain. The junta announced on Monday night that a total of 226 people had been killed in the disaster. Your Thoughts …. Eight killed and nearly 6,000 displaced as floods submerge villages near the world-famous tourism destination of Inle Lake.
UN Decries ‘Horrific’ Torture as Myanmar Sinks Into Rights ‘Abyss’
WEB4 days ago · GENEVA, Switzerland—The UN on Tuesday provided accounts of horrifying torture and an overall worsening rights situation in Myanmar, amid intensifying hostilities and the absence of rule of law. “Myanmar is plumbing the depths of the human rights abyss,” said James Rodehaver, head of the United Nations rights office’s Myanmar team.
Myanmar Junta Bombs Civilians as TNLA Tightens Noose in …
WEB5 days ago · A Myanmar junta aircraft began raining down bombs on residential wards in Hsipaw town, northern Shan State, on Monday amid intense clashes with the ethnic Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA). The ethnic army said a Harbin Y-12 plane dropped over 50 bombs on TNLA-controlled wards in Hsipaw on Tuesday morning alone, killing one …