By Ra Wai | MPA Myanmar’s military leader, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, has raised the prospect of expanding the role of women in the armed forces, sparking fears that the junta may soon extend its forced conscription law to include women. Speaking to troops and their families at the ...
By Sayar Ngaat | MPA A hardline nationalist monk has led a rally in Yangon supporting Myanmar’s defence team at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), claiming that the country’s adherence to Buddhist precepts makes the accusation of genocide impossible. Speaking to a crowd of roughly 1,000 supporters at Mahabandoola ...
By Hlaing | MPA Myanmar has become one of the most difficult places in the world to protect the right to education, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has warned. In a statement released on 24 January, the agency highlighted the deteriorating situation for students across the country, where intensifying ...
By Hsu Yee | MPA Indept PhotoStory For two months, Ma Khin Lay had waited to go home. When the military column finally left her village in Myanmar’s Sagaing region, she thought the danger had passed. She was wrong. The 25-year-old mother managed to step through her front door, but ...
By Mon Lay | MPA Myanmar’s military government has explicitly ruled out the release of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, stating there are no plans to free her and insisting that her prosecution will proceed strictly "according to the law." In comments published by state-controlled media, junta spokesperson Major ...
By Ko Myo / MPA Myanmar’s military government has arrested more than 400 people accused of attempting to disrupt the country's ongoing election process, a senior official has confirmed. The crackdown comes just days before the military is scheduled to hold a third round of voting in 63 townships on ...
By Moe Nya / MPA TAMU, Myanmar-India Border — Along the rugged border between Myanmar’s Sagaing Region and India, the sound of gunfire has been replaced by a more haunting noise: the persistent cries for justice from the families of 10 fallen resistance fighters. It has been nearly ten months ...
By Bala | MPA Demoso, Myanmar — A brutal, unsolved murder of a woman in the newly reorganized township of Dee Baw Khu has left the local community in a state of high alert, with residents urging the interim police force to apprehend the perpetrator. The body of the victim, ...
By Ra Wai | MPA Magway, Myanmar — A Myanmar military unit tasked with securing ballot boxes for the junta's controversial election has reportedly burned down a village and detained its entire population in a school, following an ambush by resistance forces. The incident occurred in Mindon Township, Magway Region, ...
By Hsu Yee | MPA Bago, Myanmar — A Myanmar military column has been effectively dismantled during a fierce pre-dawn ambush in the Bago Region, with resistance forces claiming to have killed approximately 20 soldiers, including a Major, and seizing a significant cache of heavy weaponry. The clash occurred early ...
By Sayar Ngaat / MPA A prominent local journalist has been detained by an unidentified armed group in a resistance-controlled...
