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August 17, 2022
Myanmar NGOs concerned with the rights of political prisoners believe the recent transfers of about 500 political prisoners to other prisons is...
August 17, 2022
Heavy rains have been falling on Mon State since August 15th, leading to extensive flooding. Starting from the morning of August 16, floods have hit...
August 16, 2022
Despite closure of the country’s independent media, arrest warrants, torture, jail and being driven underground or into exile, Myanmar’s journalists...
IDPs sheltering at a monastery in Rathedaung Township’s Thanchaung village. (Photo: Wai Hun Aung)
August 16, 2022
Hundreds of residents who fled their homes for safer locations after the Myanmar military clashed with the Arakan Army in Rathedaung Township over...
August 16, 2022
As a result of Myanmar’s political and economic crises, women are more vulnerable to violence and predation than they were pre-coup, according to...
Ma Khin Myo Than was beaten to death earlier this month.
August 16, 2022
Family members said that a woman from Yishin village in Arakan State’s Myebon Township died of her injuries last week after being beaten by a shaman...
August 16, 2022
In four incidents of gunfighting on 13 August in Rathedaung and Maungdaw Township, the military council forces suffered casualties, claimed by Arakan...
August 16, 2022
Hundreds of local villagers fled as the gunfighting broke out in the morning hours of Saturday in the southwestern Mayu area of Rathedaung township...
August 16, 2022
At least seven border outposts along the Rakhine-Bangladesh border were abandoned by the Myanmar military junta forces as the military tension...
August 16, 2022
The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) wounded two Burma Army (BA) soldiers after they stepped on a concealed landmine planted near Nawng Mee on Lido...
August 16, 2022
August 13 marked the 55th anniversary of “rice crisis day” in Arakan State, a date of tragic brutality in 1967, under the rule of dictator General Ne...
August 16, 2022
The UN Special Envoy of the Secretary-General Noeleen Heyzer is travelling today to Myanmar, according to a press release from the UN Secretary...