UN special rapporteur Tom Andrews warned that shrinking aid and global distraction could leave Myanmar’s worsening crisis further neglected.
Observers say the 2008 charter’s entrenched military safeguards make meaningful reform unlikely despite Min Aung Hlaing’s latest pledge.
Three-hour bombardment of Rakhine detention camp that killed 116 POWs was conducted after weeks of aerial reconnaissance, according to high-ranking survivor.
The ethnic Arakan Army’s pincer movement is closing in on junta positions on the outskirts of the city but faces heavy fortifications and thousands of civilians held as human shields.
Local residents report fences advancing into Shan State territory amid official silence and an atmosphere of growing fear.
Conflicting reports indicate that regime troops are either held up at the mined and booby-trapped gates of Tagaung or have already entered the town.
The head of the notorious Military Intelligence and close aide to Min Aung Hlaing has been promoted to Army chief, ...
Brotherhood Alliance partners’ months-long struggle for control of Kutkai is reaching a boiling point, according to residents and informed sources.
In foreign policy as in everything else, the new “civilian” government will only be the old junta in new clothes, observers predict.
The Kachin Independence Organization/Army has rejected one-to-one talks with the junta, insisting any dialogue must include all revolutionary groups.
The regime’s official figures tout recovery, but international data reveal an economy hollowed out by conflict, inflation and capital flight.
The ethnic armed group said 25 detainees died in airstrikes and five were executed after troops raided Yei Twin Gone Village-tract.