Tag: Myanmar

Witnesses said soldiers entered Thantlang town on October 29, looted properties and then set fires to 200 homes and some churches

The UN said it feared a wider human rights catastrophe amid reports of thousands of troops massing in the north and west of the country

Barring Myanmar's junta chief from the ASEAN meeting was "tremendously significant,” said a political analyst

The groups said the February coup has emboldened the military to further persecute Christians and Muslims

Observers say the move is a bid to appease the international community at a time when the junta is facing both global and domestic pressure

ASEAN members have voiced disappointment over the Myanmar junta's reluctance to abide by a five-point plan reached by the group in April

Clashes between anti-coup militias and junta troops have escalated in recent weeks along with bomb blasts and targeted killings

Historically, monks in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar have been seen as a supreme moral authority

Sources in Myanmar said on Thursday that thousands of people in the country’s Chin State have already fled to India

Myanmar’s ranking in the rights group’s Freedom on the Net 2021 fell by 14 points, dropping in one year from 31 to 17