Closing In

Myanmar lost a military stronghold near the Chinese border, the military government confirmed this week, marking a major setback for the junta as it struggles to repel armed rebel groups following its coup in 2021, Reuters reported. Late last month, the rebel Myanmar National Democratic Alliance...

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Closing In

Myanmar’s military junta is losing control of large swathes of territory to armed ethnic groups, according to new reports, a development that piles pressure on junta head, Gen. Min Aung Hliang, and prompts questions about the army’s ability to remain in power more than three...

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Going Twice

Myanmar’s military and an alliance of ethnic rebel groups agreed to a Chinese-brokered ceasefire this week, after more than two months of intense fighting in the country’s northeast that has posed a major challenge for the ruling junta following its coup nearly three years ago,...

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Countdown

Ye Htut is a 64-year-old retired lieutenant colonel in the Myanmarese army, who also served as a spokesperson and information minister in the military-backed government of President Thein Sein from 2013 to 2016. Recently, he was arrested on charges of corruption and sedition due to...

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No Refuge

At least 29 people died at a refugee camp in northern Myanmar this week in an artillery strike that critics blamed on the country’s ruling junta, as the military battles various ethnic resistance movements following a coup more than two years ago, Sky News reported. The...

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Curtains, Please

Myanmar’s military government dissolved the pro-democracy party of Aung San Suu Kyi this week, a move that comes as the junta prepares for general elections more than two years after a coup that ousted the civilian leader, Bloomberg reported. The country’s election commission said the National...

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Total War

Myanmar’s military killed at least 80 people in an airstrike in the country’s north this week, the deadliest aerial attack mounted by the junta since it took power in a coup last year, the New York Times reported Tuesday. Sunday’s airstrike targeted the territory of the...

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Books and Guns

Army helicopters killed at least 13 people, including seven children, at a school in central Myanmar this week, the latest outbreak of violence as the country’s military junta continues its brutal crackdown against opposition movements, Reuters reported Tuesday. Media reports said the incident occurred Friday at...

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