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June 27, 2022
Since 22 June, Indian soldiers have increased security checks in Mizoram’s Lunglei Town just across the border from Lai Lin Pi Town in Matupi...
June 27, 2022
The Burma Army (BA) detained twenty youths from Lashio over two days in northern Shan State. According to an anonymous source, one of those arrested...
June 27, 2022
The regime’s armed forces torched more houses in Nan Paw Lon, in the latest attack on the village in southern Shan State. On Tuesday evening, 21 June...
June 27, 2022
An administrator along with his assistant from Anauk Sanpya ward under Sittwe, the capital city of Arakan (Rakhine) State, were arrested by the junta...
June 27, 2022
Nine Muslims were arrested from a motorboat near Thekone village under Pauktaw township of Rakhine State with 100 bags of WFP-labeled rice and other...
June 27, 2022
The Arakan Human Rights Defenders and Promoters Association (AHRDPA) said in a statement on Friday that the Myanmar military’s arbitrary arrests of...
June 27, 2022
Two kidnapped educators from Maungdaw who were abducted last week have been returned to Arakan State after being briefly held for questioning by...
June 27, 2022
Military tensions have been running high in Arakan State over recent weeks, with the Arakan Army (AA) detaining junta soldiers, police and other...
Tom Andrews, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, takes part in an interview with AFP at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur on June 23, 2022. Photo: APF
June 24, 2022
Southeast Asia's regional bloc must increase pressure on Myanmar's junta or there will be more death and suffering, a UN expert warned Thursday,...
Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi and Norway's Prime Minister give a press conference in Oslo on June 15, 2012. Photo: AFP
June 24, 2022
After more than a year under house arrest ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been transferred to solitary confinement in prison, the latest...
June 24, 2022
Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi remained in strong spirits after being transferred from house arrest to prison, a source with knowledge of the...
June 23, 2022
The military junta attempted to arrest a Pindaya township, Southern Shan State, NLD’s member of parliament, U Tun Tun Naing, but could not; instead,...