The crackdown at Shwe Kokko marks an extension of the junta’s anti-scam campaign, but there are reasons to be skeptical.

In this photo released from Myanmar Military True News Information Team, senior officers from Myanmar Navy, right side, welcome officers from the Chinese Navy Escort Task Group, left side, upon ...

Ever since Myanmar’s military junta seized power in a coup in 2021, hundreds of disparate resistance groups have been fighting back. Since late last year, the opposition has gained ground. The seizure ...

The Myanmar junta’s increasing obstruction of humanitarian aid in the month since Cyclone Mocha has put thousands of lives at immediate risk and endangered millions of people. The junta’s aid ...

Since March 28th, when a powerful earthquake shook Myanmar’s central heartlands, the country’s brutal junta has tried to show the world its softer side. Min Aung Hlaing, its leader, has visited ...

The two young men are bloodied, their feet clamped in wooden stocks. “What is the PDF (People’s Defence Force)?” their tormentors yell. “Dogs,” they reply. Humiliated and dehumanized, the men are ...

Earlier this month, activists urged Indonesian authorities to investigate potential sales by state-owned arms makers to Myanmar via an alleged shell company owned by the son of a junta minister. The ...

The sanctions were imposed after soldiers seized power in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. By Ruth Maclean Reporting from Dakar, Senegal Soldiers who seized power in three West African nations announced ...

(New York) – Myanmar’s military junta is blocking desperately needed humanitarian aid from reaching millions of displaced people and others at risk, Human Rights Watch said today. The United Nations, ...