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KIA Tells Myanmar Junta Allies to Switch Sides
Source: Irrawaddy
KIA spokesman Colonel Naw Bu said the KIA will attack militias that cooperate with the regime. “We are not fighting civilians or our brothers. We fight the regime and we will fight groups that cooperate with the regime. They must change sides,” he said.
Irrawaddy
12 Myanmar political prisoners died from inadequate medical care in 2024: report
Source: Myanmar Now
The Political Prisoners Network-Myanmar (PPNM) has reported that 12 political prisoners died between January and September 2024 because they were denied access to necessary medical care in prisons throughout the country
Myanmar Now
KNU says no to census whilst no clear governance in Myanmar
Source: Karen News
The Karen National Union (KNU) spokesperson, Padoh Saw Kler Say, said the junta should not carry out a census whilst most of Myanmar is under the control of revolutionary forces.
Karen News
Weak ASEAN Nations ‘at Risk of Evolving Into Scamming States’
Source: Asia Financial
Top analyst says crime zones are seeing a huge inflow of stolen funds; calls for sanctions to be imposed on Karen warlord who hosts scam centres on the Thai-Myanmar border
Jim Pollard
Rebels seize junta base near Chinese rare-earth mine in northern Myanmar
Source: Radio Free Asia
Ethnic Kachin rebels have seized control of a key military base in northern Myanmar’s Kachin state near a Chinese rare-earth mine and other Chinese-led projects, according to residents and a rebel official.
RFA Burmese
Myanmar’s Military Government Launches Census Seen as Way to Gather Information about Opponents
Source: ABC News
The census is widely seen as an effort to gather information to closely monitor opponents of military rule even more.
Grant PECK | Associated Press
Online Scam Centers Expand on Thailand-Myanmar Border
Source: Irrawaddy
Since early July, online fraud gangs have been moving operations to Payathonzu, Falu, Kyauk Khet, Min Let Pan and Waw Lay near Myawaddy, Myanmar’s busiest border town with Thailand.
Irrawaddy
313 Chinese nationals, including 45 fugitives, repatriated from Myanmar for scams
Source: The Nation
According to the Ministry of Information, 313 Chinese nationals, including 45 fugitives involved in online scams, were arrested and transferred to China.
The Nation
Snatched from their beds, taken on the streets – the young men in Myanmar forced to fight the junta’s losing war
Source: The Guardian
After a string of humiliating defeats, the army has turned to press-ganging young men into frontline duty – leaving distraught families unaware of their fate
Esther J; Rebecca Ratcliffe
NLD states Myanmar’s political issues cannot be resolved without Aung San Suu Kyi’s involvement
Source: Mizzima
The statement also emphasized the urgent need for the immediate release of Aung San Suu Kyi and all political prisoners.
Mizzima
Myanmar Junta Receives Six More Chinese Warplanes Amid Deadly Airstrikes on Civilians
Source: Irrawaddy
Six more FTC-2000G midrange fighter jets purchased from China arrived in Myanmar in August, amid the junta’s escalating aerial bombardment of towns lost to ethnic armies, The Irrawaddy has learnt.
Irrawaddy
PDFs Capture Junta Base in Theinnaw Village, Tanintharyi Township
Source: Burma News International
The 150 junta troops manning the base abandoned it and fled on 25 September, according to Comrade Myo Gyi from Myeik District PDF Column 2.
Karen Information Center
Regime signals more conscription of Muslim IDPs from Sittwe displacement camps
Source: Development Media Group
Junta soldiers arrived at the Thelchaung, Bar Sar, Dar Paing, Bawdupha, Ohn Taw Gyi and Ohn Taw Chay displacement camps and Bumay Village in Sittwe Township on September 20 and 25 and informed Muslim IDPs about the plan to enlist them as conscripts in October.
Development Media Group
Arakan State’s mangrove forests continue to shrink due to Chinese-backed projects
Source: Development Media Group
The restricted area is the site of a China-backed oil and gas pipeline project on Maday Island in Arakan State’s Kyaukphyu Township. “We have lost mangrove forests due to the negative impacts of this project.
Development Media Group
Japan will not send new envoy to military-ruled Myanmar: sources
Source: Japan Today
A new ambassador needs to submit credentials to the junta — which took power on Feb 1, 2021, by ousting Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government — and Japan was concerned dispatching an envoy would be taken as an endorsement of the military government, according to the sources.
KYODO
Armed Groups Snub Myanmar Junta ‘Peace’ Offer
Source: Irrawaddy
Lway Yay Oo, spokeswoman for the Ta’ang National Liberation Army of the Brotherhood Alliance, said: “The idea that armed groups should abandon their struggle and participate in elections, as proposed by the junta, is completely unrealistic.
Irrawaddy
Slovenia will participate in Rohingya genocide case against Myanmar
Source: Slovenian Press Agency (STA)
Slovenia will file an intervention in a Rohingya genocide case brought by Gambia against Myanmar before the International Court of Justice, the government decided on Thursday.
Slovenian Press Agency
Myanmar’s opposition rejects a military appeal for talks on a political solution to armed conflict
Source: Associated Press
Nay Phone Latt, a spokesperson for the opposition’s shadow National Unity Government, told The Associated Press that a joint statement issued earlier this year by opposition groups has already paved the way for a negotiated political solution if the army agrees to its conditions.
Grant PECK
Myanmar junta invites insurgents, ‘terrorists’ to join election
Source: Radio Free Asia
Shadow government dismisses the invitation as a ‘bogus’ bid by the junta to improve its image.
RFA Burmese
NUG Rejects Online Claim by Junta Supporters It Is on US Payroll
Source: Irrawaddy
NUG Deputy Foreign Minister U Moe Zaw Oo told The Irrawaddy the article was part of a smear campaign by the junta against the NUG to deceive Beijing into thinking the parallel government is financially supported by the West.
Irrawaddy
Over 50,000 Face ‘Starvation’ in Sittwe After Massacre, Eviction by Myanmar Junta
Source: Irrawaddy
The evicted villagers have taken refuge at 26 monasteries in Sittwe town after junta authorities failed to provide them with accommodation.
Irrawaddy
Myanmar junta airstrike kills civilians sheltering in rebel territory
Source: Radio Free Asia
Myanmar junta jets bombed a shelter for displaced people in a rebel-held town in Rakhine state on Thursday killing 14 civilians and wounding 25, an insurgent force official told Radio Free Asia.
RFA Burmese
Myanmar citizens in Thailand face extra risks on dangerous roads
Source: Radio Free Asia
Many accident victims eligible for compensation struggle with a language barrier and red tape.
Kiana Duncan and Pimuk Rakkanam for RFA
Desperate people in Myanmar are selling their organs
Source: MercatorNet
The economic crisis caused by Myanmar’s civil war is a humanitarian catastrophe, fuelling hunger, desperation – and the sale of human organs.
Antonio Graceffo
Sky News wins International Emmy Award for Myanmar war documentary The Last Hospital
Source: Sky News
Collecting the award, Stuart Ramsay paid tribute to the doctors and nurses at the hospital and the people who “looked after us” They witnessed a remarkable effort by medics to save lives on the frontline at a secret jungle hospital, as well as undeniable evidence of war crimes.
Sky News