Tag: Junta

26 May 2026 By Mon Lay / MPA The chief of Myanmar’s military junta, Min Aung Hlaing, stated that any future federal system for the country would be based strictly on geographic territories rather than ethnic identity. He made the remarks during a meeting of the military-backed union cabinet today. ...

25 May 2026 By Ko Myo MANDALAY, Myanmar — Armed military personnel and regime administrators in the town of Kyaukpadaung, Mandalay Region, have begun widening their forced conscription net to target elderly men, using arbitrary detentions as a lucrative extortion racket to fund military operations. For nearly two years, young ...

25 May 2026 By Mon Lay NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar — Khin Yi, the leader of the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) and nominal speaker of the regime's unrecognized Pyithu Hluttaw (House of Representatives), has asserted that the junta-created assembly must act as a primary mechanism to shield the state ...

25 May 2026 By Nway MYAING, Myanmar — Joint anti-junta resistance forces have overrun a heavily fortified pro-military militia village in Magway Region, capturing nearly 40 personnel including active-duty soldiers despite a barrage of retaliatory state airstrikes, military sources confirmed. The coordinated assault on Thayet Kan—a notorious base for the ...

24 May 2026 By Naing Yarzar Min At Yangon General Hospital—Myanmar’s oldest and most historic medical institution—a predatory network of extortionists operates with near-total impunity. For ordinary citizens seeking life-saving treatment, navigating the hospital has become a gauntlet of financial exploitation, where bribes are extracted at every turn. Despite the ...

25 May 2026 By Foe Aww Yaw NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar — Myanmar’s military junta leader, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, has unveiled plans to establish computerized greenhouse networks to boost agricultural exports, a move independent experts have swiftly dismissed as a hollow fantasy due to the country's collapsed electrical grid and ...

23 May 2026 By Poesangle NAWNGHKIO, Myanmar — Corrupt officials from the Ministry of Immigration and Population are systematically extorting war-weary residents in the junta-controlled town of Nawnghkio, charging vulnerable families between 100,000 to 500,000 Myanmar Kyat (MMK)_150 USD just to replace national identity cards lost during active combat. The ...

23 May 2026 By Nway KANPETLET, Myanmar — A strategic mountaintop town in southern Chin State is being rapidly evacuated following an ultimatum by ethnic resistance forces, as intense, close-quarters combat with nearly 1,000 advancing military junta troops rages right at the city's gates. Heavy fighting has entered its third ...

23 May 2026 By Nway THAYET, Myanmar — Anti-junta resistance forces in western Myanmar have enacted an emergency highway lockdown, as a massive deployment of more than 1,000 military regime troops prepares for a sweeping offensive near the foothills of the Arakan Yoma mountain range. The Thayet District Battalion 4 ...

22 May 2026 By Mon Lay NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar — Myanmar’s newly appointed military chief, General Ye Win Oo, has accused global superpowers of using aid and diplomacy to dominate smaller nations, during an ASEAN defense summit that critics say is being heavily exploited by the junta for geopolitical propaganda. Addressing ...