Tag: MPA

In a significant shift of rhetoric, Myanmar’s military leader, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, has invoked the country’s monarchical past while pleading with ethnic armed organisations to be "realistic" in their political aspirations. During a five-year administrative review held in Naypyidaw, the junta chief praised the "high status and culture" ...

At least 70 civilians remain in military custody following a brutal raid in Nyaunglebin Township, despite a major rescue operation that successfully liberated over 300 people, local resistance sources have confirmed. Between 7 and 8 March, a coalition of revolutionary forces launched a five-hour operation to free villagers from the ...

At least six people, including three children, have been killed after a Myanmar military jet dropped heavy ordinance on a village in Tanintharyi Region, striking a building where a summer literacy programme was underway. The attack occurred at approximately 12:30 local time on 9 March 2026, when a junta fighter ...

The Prime Minister of Myanmar’s shadow National Unity Government (NUG) has revealed that extensive and ongoing negotiations are taking place between revolutionary leadership groups to ensure political alignment as the conflict against the military junta enters its fifth year. Speaking at the 11th session of the Yangon Federal Unit Parliament ...

More than 60 women were killed across Myanmar in February as the ruling military junta increased its reliance on airstrikes and heavy artillery to target civilian areas, according to the latest report by the Burmese Women’s Union (BWU). In a statement released on 10 March, the BWU documented the deaths ...

By MPA More than 140 civil society organisations and revolutionary groups have called for the immediate prosecution of a resistance battalion commander in Sagaing Region following harrowing allegations of sexual violence, torture, and religious persecution. A joint statement released on March 9 by 148 organisations—including the All Burma Federation of ...

By Ko Myo / MPA Residents in Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon, are struggling under the weight of new fuel restrictions while facing a continuous surge in forced military recruitment and arbitrary arrests. Despite the public’s focus being diverted by a new "odd-even" plate number system for fuel rationing, local monitoring ...

By Ko Myo / MPA Evidence of a mass killing has emerged from Myanmar’s Bago Region, where at least 30 civilians were reportedly executed or killed by military air strikes after being used as human shields, according to local sources and resistance groups. The Karen National Union (KNU) reported on ...

A 19-year-old student was killed instantly and her mother seriously injured after a Myanmar military "suicide drone" struck their home in Chin State, local sources have reported. The attack occurred at approximately 16:00 local time on 8 March in Lunn Hawt village, Falam Township. According to local reports, the drone ...

At least 30 civilians have been killed following a brutal military operation involving mass arrests, summary executions, and airstrikes in Kyaukkyi Township, Bago Region, according to statements from the Karen National Union (KNU) and the National Unity Government (NUG). The crisis began on the morning of 5 March when approximately ...