Min Aung Hlaing is busy with a series of diplomatic meetings in Myanmar’s capital Naypyidaw. Sun Guoxiang, China’s special envoy to Myanmar is scheduled to meet with the coup leader in the next hours. Yohei Sasakawa, Japan’s special envoy to Myanmar, recently met with the general and negotiated the release Read more…
A little thought on Cop26. To see politicians celebrating their compromises and patting their own backs in a do-or-die situation, is just angering. I would compare it to a fireman celebrating after saving one person from a building on fire full of thousands of people.The fact that “poorer” countries and Read more…
A school named after Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s mother, and a market in Bogyoke Aung San’s birthplace were burned just a few hours apart. Meanwhile dozens of empty NLD offices have been raided and destroyed all over the country, and the properties of NLD members have been seized by Read more…
Danny Fenster has been sentenced to 11 years of prison. He was found guilty of unlawful association, incitement and visa breaches. These charges are based on his relationship with Myanmar Now, a news outlet that was banned by the regime after the coup, but his lawyers clearly proved that he Read more…
In Chin State the regime army is struggling. Nathan Ruser reports that a military convoy of 75 vehicles has been traveling the Mutapi-Mindat route, which usually takes 3 hours, for the past 9 days. According to other sources, the convoy made it to Mindat yesterday, but 30 to 70 soldiers Read more…
• The National Unity Government (NUG, the democratic government that opposes the regime), reports that 520 buildings, including homes and religious structures, have been hit or burned by the regime.• The NUG announced that two military conglomerates MEHL (Myanma Economic Holdings Limited) and MEC (Myanmar Economic Corporation), are considered as terrorist businesses.• The NUG Read more…
The multiple charges some people are facing, show how the regime is looking to annihilate the opposition. 67 year old Daw Nan Khin Htwe Myint received a 75 years sentence. Danny Fenster is now facing two new charges and risks 40 years of jail, just for being a journalist. Daw Read more…
• UN Security Council held in Britain to discuss the Myanmar crisis behind closed doors.• Prominent 1988 pro-democracy activist Ko Jimmy officially charged with high treason, terrorism and incitement, among other charges.. He was arrested 2 weeks ago and sustained injuries during the arrest.• Ma Thinzar Zaw, a student at Dagon University, was Read more…
Myanmar’s political elections took place exactly one year ago. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, the National League for Democracy, won a landslide victory, taking 396 out of 476 seats.Although there were some flaws (disenfranchisement in some ethnic areas was definitely an issue, and under the 2008 Constitution, elections will Read more…
Resistance sources report over 100 regime soldiers killed today. Although it is impossible to verify these claims, but it is clear that the regime is having difficulties, especially in Sagaing where it had to launch an airstrike after suffering several losses in Kawlin.Yangon has seen several attacks today, especially in Read more…