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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...
August 16, 2022
Four Chaung U Revolution Army (CRA) fighters who were injured by an accidental explosion while making mines have been discharged from hospital and...
August 16, 2022
Local villagers are fleeing the village of Kyaung Nate village due to artillery fire from junta forces, according to local reports. Local residents...
August 16, 2022
Six men from Khamaung Seik village in northern Maungdaw Township, Arakan State, have been missing since Friday, according to relatives. Three of them...