Myanmar Political Prisoners Harshly Interrogated: Freed Japanese Journalist (ဂျပန်သတင်းထောက် တိုကျိုပြန်ရောက်၊ မြန်မာပြည်ကသတင်းစကား ကမ္ဘာကို ဖြန့်မည်)
A Japanese freelance journalist who spent nearly four weeks in a Myanmar prison before returning to Japan on Friday said the prison where he was being kept held many political prisoners who had been subjected to harsh interrogations. Yuki Kitazumi said in an online interview from a hotel outside Tokyo on Saturday night that he […]
Myanmar army battles anti-coup rebels in northwest town (မင်းတပ်မြို့တွင် စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်များနှင့် တိုက်ပွဲပြင်းထန်လျက်ရှိ)
Myanmar’s army battled local militia fighters in the northwestern town of Mindat on Saturday, residents said, to try to quell a rebellion that has sprung up to oppose the junta which seized power in the Southeast Asian country in February. The fighting in Mindat, Chin state, underlines the growing chaos in Myanmar as the junta […]
Shwebo Development Market is Fire in Myanmar ( ရွှေဘိုဈေး မီးလောင်မှုဖြစ်စဉ်)
Today 15 May 2021 in Sagaing Region at Shwe Bo township, the great market is FIRE! Vendors were devastated checking their stores. Shwe Bo market was reported to have set ablaze by junta forces in the wee hours today. Shwe Bo market is a major market where locals rely on for trades and daily necessities.Lasts […]
Miss Universe Myanmar Arrives in Florida With a Message for the Junta (အာဏာသိမ်းစစ်အစိုးရအကြောင်း ပြောကြားခဲ့သည့်မြန်မာမယ်စကြာဝဠာ)
Ma Thuzar Wint Lwin hopes to use her international platform as a pageant contestant to criticize the country’s military coup and support the pro-democracy movement. As a girl, Ma Thuzar Wint Lwin would watch the Miss Universe pageant and wish that she could be the one onstage representing her country, Myanmar. She entered her first […]
Myanmar junta imposes martial law in town (မင်းတပ်မြို့နယ်ကို စစ်အုပ်ချုပ်ရေး ကြေညာ)
Myanmar has been in turmoil since the coup on February 1, with protests almost daily against military rule across the country and ethnic militias stepping up attacks, overrunning military posts.Myanmar’s junta has declared martial law in a town in Chin State after blaming “armed terrorists” for attacks on a police station and a bank, state […]
Resistance fighters forced to retreat again as regime soldiers overrun Sagaing village (ချောင်းဦးမြို့နယ်တွင် စစ်တပ်က အကြမ်းဖက်စီးနင်း၍ ရွာလုံးကျွတ် ထွက်ပြေးရ)
No fatalities have been reported but there were several injuries on either side and one resistance fighter was arrestedMyanmar military soldiers have overrun a village in Sagaing Region where resistance fighters were taking shelter after their stronghold in the nearby town of Chaung-U was crushed earlier this month. The fighters were forced to once again […]
Myanmar beauty queen takes up arms against junta (လက်နက်စွဲကိုင်တော်လှန်မယ့် အလှမယ် ထားထက်ထက်)
YANGON (AFP) – A former Myanmar beauty queen has joined ethnic rebels to take up arms against the country’s military junta, posting photos of herself with an assault rifle.Myanmar has been in chaos and its economy paralysed since the military seized power on Feb 1, ousting civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Ms Htar Htet […]
Myanmar and a new kind of civil war
Urban dissidents trained by battle-hardened guerillas in thecountryside could make things harder for the Tatmadaw. In early 1989, I was passing through Bangkok when a friend from a Western embassy invited me to what she called “a secret meeting”. She knew that I was a Myanmar-watcher, but what interested her most was the fact that […]
Villagers in Myingyan repel junta’s forces for the third time (မြင်းခြံ၊ တလုပ်မြို့ကို စစ်ကောင်စီတပ် တတိယအကြိမ် ဝင်စီး )
At least one soldier was killed during the latest attempt to enter a village in Mandalay Region’s Myingyan Township on Tuesday Residents of a village in Mandalay Region’s Myingyan Township successfully held off an attempted raid by regime forces on Tuesday, killing one soldier and injuring two, according to local sources. The locals, armed only […]
Myanmar marks 100 days of junta rule with protests, strikes (စစ်အာဏာသိမ်းမှု ရက်၁၀၀ မြောက်နေ့)
Protesters rallied in towns and cities around Myanmar on Tuesday to denounce its military rulers, 100 days after the generals’ overthrow of an elected government pitched the country into its biggest crisis in decades. Demonstrators took part in marches, motorcycle convoys and flash protests to evade security forces, some making three-finger gestures of defiance as […]