Regime bans rice supplies to Tanintharyi’s capital
04 Nov 2022
The Myanmar military regime has barred the supply of rice to Dawei, the capital of Tanintharyi Region, according to local rice merchants.
04 Nov 2022
The Myanmar military regime has barred the supply of rice to Dawei, the capital of Tanintharyi Region, according to local rice merchants.
04 Nov 2022
Only seven of 21 Arakanese and Muslim people detained by the Myanmar military at the central market and near the local jetty in Arakan State’s Buthidaung Township on October 23 have been released so far, and the others have been denied family visits nearly two weeks into their detention.
04 Nov 2022
Eleven civilians were killed and 31 others were injured in shooting incidents and landmine explosions in Arakan State and neighbouring Chin State’s Paletwa Township last month, according to a DMG tally.
04 Nov 2022
Several civilians were seriously injured after artillery shells landed and exploded across multiple villages in Kyauktaw Township, Arakan State, this week.
04 Nov 2022
Two boat owners from Arakan State’s Rathedaung Township have been charged under Section 17(1) of the Unlawful Associations Act for allegedly paying taxes to the Arakan Army (AA).
04 Nov 2022
A police officer at Maei Police Station in Arakan State’s Taungup Township was reportedly abducted by the Arakan Army (AA) on Friday morning, according to a ward administrator and a local.
04 Nov 2022
An internally displaced person (IDP) and another local man in Kyauktaw Township, who had been detained by the military for some three months, were reportedly transferred to a police station on the morning of November 3.
03 Nov 2022
Recent meetings between Myanmar and Bangladeshi border guard and police force officials will not result in substantive cooperation between the two sides, and will do little to quell Arakan Army (AA) attacks on Myanmar military positions along the border, observers say.
03 Nov 2022
Four journalists were killed in Myanmar since last year’s military coup, and five others were killed before the putsch dating back to 1999, with the perpetrators of these crimes enjoying impunity, Free Expression Myanmar (FEM) said in a statement marking International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists on Wednesday
03 Nov 2022
Myanmar’s military regime has enacted the Organization Registration Law, which in the view of civil society organisations, activists and politicians is intended to restrict the operations of various organisations and associations, and contain the popular revolt against the junta.
03 Nov 2022
Thousands of locals in Kayin State’s Kawkareik Township have fled to safer locations as a military column has been raiding some villages near Kyaikdon town since November 2.
03 Nov 2022
With fighting between the Myanmar military and Arakan Army ongoing across much of Arakan State, the AA spokesman says the military’s conduct going forward will determine the ethnic armed group’s response.
02 Nov 2022
Myanmar’s border trade with Bangladesh via Maungdaw has declined by almost 90 percent since the military regime imposed travel restrictions in mid-August along the Agnumaw-Maungdaw road, a key route for border commerce with Bangladesh, according to traders in Maungdaw.
02 Nov 2022
Frequent artillery strikes by Myanmar military battalions and bases in Minbya, Kyauktaw and Buthidaung townships are making the rice harvest virtually impossible, many local farmers say.
02 Nov 2022
More than 100 people are struggling to make ends meet and need assistance after they were evicted from a plot of land adjacent to Yanaungmyay Monastery in Arakan State’s Buthidaung Township that the Myanmar military claims ownership of, according to camp officials and IDPs.
02 Nov 2022
Clashes between the military and Arakan Army (AA) were reported across three townships in western Myanmar over the past two days.
01 Nov 2022
Hundreds of Myanmar migrant workers who went to work in Thailand under a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) did not get the jobs described in employment contracts and some recruitment agencies are refusing to take responsibility, according to activists engaged in defending and promoting Myanmar migrant workers’ rights.
01 Nov 2022
Junta artillery strikes killed five people and injured at least 20 others in Kayah (Karenni) State last month, according to relief workers.
01 Nov 2022
A mother, father and their 13-year-old daughter were killed by artillery fire on Monday night while sleeping at home in Pisi Village, part of Arakan State’s Kyauktaw Township, with the Myanmar military being blamed for the shelling.
31 Oct 2022
Family members said they had not been in contact with 13 Arakanese from Haigyi Island in Ayeyarwady Region for more than a month, after they were arrested on suspicion of having links to the Arakan Army (AA).