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Myanmar Junta Faces Outrage for Bloody Concert Bombing
The ruling military junta of Myanmar (Burma) carried out an airstrike in the country’s northern Kachin State over the weekend, killing at least eighty people, according to AP. The attack...
UN: Life Under Myanmar’s Junta Has Become ‘Horrific’
Tom Andrews, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar (Burma), claimed during a meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday that conditions in...
Myanmar Junta’s Attack on School Spurs Global Outrage
At least thirteen people, nearly all children, were killed in Let Yet Kone, a village in northern Myanmar (Burma), after the country’s ruling military junta bombed a school during a...
UN Envoy Won’t Visit Myanmar Without Seeing Aung San Suu Kyi
United Nations special envoy to Myanmar (Burma) Noeleen Heyzer announced on Monday that she would only return to the country if she were allowed to visit former State Counselor and...
Business as Usual: Lavrov Hails ‘Friendly’ Relations With Burmese Junta
Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in Naypyidaw, the capital of Myanmar (Burma), on Wednesday, according to Russia’s state-run TASS news agency. This marks the most recent engagement between Russia’s...
Myanmar Junta Says Executed Democracy Activists ‘Deserved’ It
The ruling military junta of Myanmar (Burma) defended its decision to execute four political prisoners on Saturday, July 23, claiming that the former democracy activists had “deserved many death sentences”...
Burmese Military Junta Executes Four Pro-Democracy Activists
In what is believed to be the first use of capital punishment within Myanmar (Burma) in decades, four pro-democracy activists, including one former member of parliament for the National League...
Myanmar’s Junta Sends Ex-Leader Suu Kyi to Solitary Confinement
Aung San Suu Kyi, the former state counsellor and de facto leader of Myanmar (Burma) until her overthrow in a military coup in February 2021, was transferred earlier in the...
Burmese Junta’s Holiday Amnesty Excludes Political Prisoners
In celebration of Myanmar’s traditional New Year holiday, the governing military junta of Myanmar announced that it will release 1,600 prisoners from jails as part of a general amnesty—but it...
State Department Accuses the Burmese Military of Genocide
The U.S. State Department announced on Monday that it had determined the Burmese military’s ethnic cleansing against the country’s Rohingya minority constituted genocide and appropriate legal penalties would follow for...
Myanmar Junta Accused of War Crimes in Kayah Province
The military government of Myanmar, which seized power in a coup in February 2021, has murdered civilians and carried out other war crimes in Myanmar’s eastern Karenni State, according to...
Burmese Military Junta Piles Corruption Charges on Suu Kyi
The military junta governing Burma announced on Thursday that it had filed an additional corruption charge against former Burmese state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, the eleventh active indictment against...