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Highlights
54 companies in ASEAN have provided Myanmar junta access to revenue, aviation fuel and tech, enabling atrocities
Source: Justice for Myanmar | Press Release
ASEAN’s claims of taking the lead to resolve the crisis, while hypocritically offering false legitimacy to the military junta and providing it with military training, has worsened the situation in Myanmar and impeded international action
Has the Revolutionary Spirit Gone? Shan Armed Forces in Crisis as Public Doubts Grow
Source: Shan Herald Agency for News | Feature by Nang Seng Nom
Yet today, as Myanmar marks four years under renewed military rule, these same forces have fallen silent. Their inaction has left the Shan public questioning their purpose, and their future.
Military prevents reintegration of political prisoners
Source: Human Rights Myanmar | Publication
This report to the UN exposes the military’s deliberate policy of preventing the reintegration of political prisoners.
Silence Is Complicity in the Myanmar Junta’s Massacre of Children
Source: The Irrawaddy | Editorial
Lest the world forget how brutal it is: Myanmar’s murderous military junta on Monday bombed a school in a resistance stronghold in upper Myanmar, killing at least 20 students, some as young as 7 years old, and two teachers.
Justice For Myanmar launches “Dirty Over 30 ASEAN” to expose ASEAN tycoons fuelling Myanmar junta atrocities
Source: Justice for Myanmar | Press Release
The new “dishonourees” are 12 powerful tycoons from across Southeast Asia who are profiting from the junta’s atrocities through funds, the sale of military equipment and the provision of financial services.
Sex-based violence in Myanmar
Source: Human Rights Myanmar | Publication
Myanmar’s military systematically uses sex-based violence to subjugate women and girls, intensifying since the 2021 coup.
How Myanmar’s gold rush threatens international rivers
Source: Dialogue Earth | By Kannikar Petchkaew
n Mong Len, a rural area in Myanmar’s eastern Shan state, 35-year-old farmer Sai U stood helplessly as his cattle fell – poisoned by the water that had long sustained his family, fields and livestock
SAC Escalates Collective Punishment across the Danu Heartlands
Source: Shan Human Rights Foundation | Report
This report documents the escalation of human rights violations by State Administration Council (SAC) troops, police and local Pyusawhti militia against local villagers in Ywangan and adjoining townships of Southern Shan State and Mandalay since mid-2022.
The Enlistment of Women: Gendered Impacts of Forced Conscription by the Military Junta
Source: Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma | Briefing Paper
Our latest research finds that women face immense risks in junta custody, and the dangerous attempts to make them fight on the battlefield present additional risks that undermine their safety and security.
Central Myanmar’s People’s Defense Forces Stake a Growing Claim
Source: The Irrawaddy | Analysis by Aye Chan Hsu
After the 2021 military coup, pro-democracy resistance forces sprang up across the country, armed with whatever weapons they could find.