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Sky-High Atrocities: The Deadly Rise of Myanmar Junta’s Aerial Campaign
Source: Irrawaddy
The regime mainly uses A-5, G-4, and K-8 light jet fighters, and Mi-35, Mi-17, and Mi-2 assault helicopters in air attacks in Sagaing and Magwe regions, according to former air force captains who defected following the coup.
Irrawaddy
Horror of Myanmar Junta’s Aerial Massacre in Pazi Gyi
Source: Irrawaddy
Children, women—some of them pregnant—and elderly people were among the massacre victims. Pazi Gyi resident Ma Zin Mar, 17, said the children went to the pavilion to eat rice early before they went to school.
Feature | Yuzana
British companies: Stop insuring aviation fuel deliveries to Burma
Source: Burma Campaign UK
“Any company involved in the supply chain delivering aviation fuel to Burma is potentially complicit in airstrikes against civilians, and should stop immediately,” said Mark Farmaner, Director of Burma Campaign UK. “Without insurance, vessels cannot deliver aviation fuel.”
Burma Campaign UK
War in Eastern Demoso – Junta deploys Air Strike in bid to break Karenni the resistance
Source: Kantarawaddy Times
Khu Nyeh Reh, the Interior Minister of Interior for the Karenni peoples CDM- aligned state government, informed the Kantarawaddy Times that there is currently intense fighting taking place in the eastern region of Demoso township.
Kantarawaddy Times
Humanitarian need for IDPs on the rise amid fighting
Source: Than Lwin Times
The Karen Peace Support Network (KSPN) has been working with local KNU leaders to provide humanitarian assistance to IDPs from Kyaukgyi and Shwekyin townships of the KNU’s Nyaunglaybin District, but they have not been able to provide enough support.
Than Lwin Times
Burma army arrests over 100 people during raid on Seng Hpra village
Source: Kachin News Group
About 30 Burma army soldiers from the Nam Yar military base raided Seng Hpra village around 5 a.m. During the raid the soldiers inspected every house in the village.
Kachin News Group
Myanmar Regime Troops Destroy Japan-Funded Hospital and Kill Teenage Boy
Source: Irrawaddy
Military regime troops killed a 15-year-old boy during the raid and abducted 19 people including medics from the Japan-funded hospital, according to locals and resistance groups.
Irrawaddy
China Hosts Myanmar Junta and Bangladesh to Discuss Rohingya Repatriations
Source: Irrawaddy
The Chinese-backed pilot project to repatriate Rohingya refugees to Rakhine State from Bangladesh gained momentum this week after diplomatic visits between China and Bangladesh.
MUKTADIR RASHID
Tens of Thousands Flee Myanmar Junta Raids in Sagaing
Source: Irrawaddy
A Myanmar military detachment of 100 troops based at a hospital in Ye-U Township raided villages in the west of nearby Khin-U Township early Wednesday, said Khin-U True News Site, which monitors regime atrocities in the township.
Irrawaddy
Pa-O Armed Group Splits Over Myanmar Junta Peace Deal
Source: Irrawaddy
A faction led by PNLO patron Khun Okkar broke away on September 10, saying it adheres to the 2015 Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA), calling it the PNLO Splinter Group.
Irrawaddy
TNLA Embraces Of Wa Leaders’ Political Standpoint
Source: Shan Herald Agency for News
The PSLF/TNLA pledged to continue working alongside the Wa leaders as ‘blood brothers’ in pursuit of self-determination for the Mon-Khmer tribe, the Wa-Ta’ang and to advance the national political objectives.
Shan Herald Agency for News
Thailand-Myanmar Ties Mean Myanmar Anti-Coup Activists Risk Arrest
Source: Voice of America
Sann Aung, executive director of the New Myanmar Foundation, a civic and humanitarian group in Mae Sot, said anyone who is part of the resistance to the junta is at risk in Thailand.
Tommy Walker
New alliances form in Myanmar struggle
Source: Bangkok Post
The Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) have become vital to Myanmar’s battle for democracy, providing shelter and training for new Bamar-dominated People’s Defence Forces (PDF) formed to fight the junta
Agence France-Presse
Protest groups orchestrate a chorus of Spring Revolution slogans
Source: Frontier Myanmar
The objectives and slogans of anti-junta protests across Myanmar are carefully coordinated and agreed on by a wide array of resistance groups, with the current focus on opposition to the military’s planned elections.
Frontier
Myanmar Military Raids Pazi Gyi Village Again
Source: Irrawaddy
Myanmar junta troops on Wednesday raided Pazi Gyi Village in Kantbalu Township, Sagaing Region—which last week suffered the deadliest ever air strike by the Myanmar military—resulting in nearly 10,000 displaced villagers from the area being forced to flee once again, according to residents.
Irrawaddy
Myanmar’s Top Court to Hear Suu Kyi’s Appeal Against Conviction
Source: BNN Bloomberg
Myanmar’s Supreme Court has agreed to hear appeals by deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi and former president Win Myint against their conviction on corruption and other charges, paving the way for a review of previous rulings.
Khine Lin Kyaw
Myanmar Junta Troops Seize Hospital Patients, Torch Villages in Magwe Region
Source: Irrawaddy
At least 30 people including hospital patients were detained and thousands of residents forced to flee their homes when regime aircraft and infantry attacked a village in Myaing Township, Magwe Region on Tuesday, according to local news sources and a junta website.
Irrawaddy
Death toll from Myanmar junta air attack on northern village rises to 200
Source: Mizzima
422 Myanmar junta soldiers were killed and 258 were injured in 373 armed conflicts in areas controlled by the Karen National Union (KNU), during the month of March 2023. The figures were released by the Central Headquarters of the KNLA.
Mizzima
‘Profit from the coup’: Myanmar ethnic rebels welcome pro-democracy fighters
Source: France24
At dusk in northern Myanmar, fighters from the Ta’ang National Liberation Army patrol their frontlines and mark the positions of junta troops, their decades-long conflict with the military fraught with new risks since the coup.
Agence France-Presse
Maung Thein Dan: The Myanmar Filmmaker Imprisoned for Fighting to Free His Country
Source: Japan Forward
Some people don’t want you to know the inconvenient truth. And this is what happens when they are in power” — film director on the Myanmar military coup.
Shaun Fernando
Myanmar: trade unionists in the firing line
Source: Social Europe
After the coup in February 2021, the military issued warrants for 27 members of the executive committee of the Confederation of Trade Unions Myanmar (CTUM). More than 300 union and workers’ activists were arrested and sentenced and 55 union leaders hunted down and killed.
Khaing Zar Aung
Chinese Companies Reportedly Halt Rare Earth Mining in Myanmar After Protests
Source: Voice of America
The protests began in December after the KIO granted Chinese enterprises permission to mine in Kachin State in the area near the border with China’s Yunnan Province, witnesses told VOA Burmese.
Zaw Htet
Military Council abducts over 30 villagers from Hseng Hpa Yar in Kachin State as human shields
Source: Burma News International
The purpose of the abduction was to use these innocent individuals as human shields, according to locals.
Myitkyina Journal
Wildlife trade has grown in Puta-O since coup, locals call for ban
Source: Kachin News Group
The wildlife trade in Puta-O has greatly expanded since the military coup, according to local sources. Local people are calling for a ban on selling rare birds and wildlife species in the Puta-O market.
Kachin News Group
“Escape from Hell: Survivors Speak Out About Human Trafficking Ordeal in the “Wa” Region
Source: Shan Herald Agency for News
There are 11 individuals, consisting of seven men and four women, confined in a cramped 15-foot room and provided with insufficient food just to keep them barely alive.
SHAN | News Feature