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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
Ambassador-at-Large Van Schaack’s Travel to Thailand
Source: U.S Department of State
In Thailand, Ambassador Van Schaack will meet with members of the Government of Thailand, as well as civil society, experts, and organizations. She will discuss justice and accountability for victims of atrocities in Burma.
MEDIA NOTE | OFFICE OF THE SPOKESPERSON
The Iron Fist Behind Myanmar Junta’s Bogus Peace Offer
Source: Irrawaddy
It is important to note that the invitation came not from the State Administration Council, as the junta calls itself, but from its information team, which raises questions about its sincerity.
Banyar Aung
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
ASEAN still torn over security challenges
Source: Geopolitical Intelligence Services AG
The crisis in Myanmar triggered international reactions, including from other ASEAN member states. The bloc has been chaired by four countries since the coup: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia and Laos. None have been successful in resolving the crisis.
Adinda Khaerani Epstein
Rohingya are at risk “wherever we go, whether Myanmar, Thailand, or Malaysia”
Source: Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
Even in exile in Malaysia, the Rohingya people continue to face hardships, including limited access to health care, employment, and education.
Press Release | Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
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
Peace Talks Begin In Myanmar Following Rebel Victory
Source: The Organization for World Peace
The conflict in Myanmar represents a chaotic struggle for democratic representation in a historically autocratic society, whose borders were drawn by British colonial rule rather than organic national identity
Jack Langmead
The Myanmar Military’s Institutional Resilience
Source: United States Institute of Peace
The traditional sources of institutional loyalty rest on the social status and the financial privileges enjoyed by soldiers. Senior officers can amass wealth from areas they control through corruption, exploitation and extraction.
Analysis | Ye Myo Hein; Billy Ford
UN Chief Guterres, Do You Have the Courage to Save Lives in Myanmar?
Source: Irrawaddy
Myanmar is in deep chaos. Where are the United Nations and the international community?
Editorial | Irrawaddy
Myanmar’s census is a blunt counterinsurgency tool
Source: Frontier Myanmar
The junta says the population count will help prepare for an election but it’s more likely meant to flush out dissidents, in an exercise that is destined to flop.
Mary CALLAHAN | Frontier
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
Buddhist division and polarisation in Myanmar’s revolutionary situation
Source: New Mandala
While military co-optation strategies of the Sangha are an important dynamic, there is also significant monastic resistance to the military coup as well as support to the revolution.
Phyo WAI; Iselin FRYDENLUND
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
Changing balance of power in Myanmar: A post-coup analysis
Source: Observer Research Foundation
The Junta’s weakening grip on power, coupled with growing internal divisions and external isolation, suggests it may continue to lose ground
Sreeparna Banerjee
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
Thai MP Rome urges reform to fix Myanmar migration crisis, corruption
Source: Voice of America
In this exclusive interview with VOA, Rome discusses Thailand’s challenges with migration, corruption and the need for coordinated government action to address the crisis.
Interview | MP Rangsiman Rome, chair of the Thai House Committee on National Security and deputy leader of the People’s Party
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
MYANMAR MILITARY’S LATEST PEACE OVERTURES: Exit strategy of holding election may not be a soft-landing cushion for the junta
Source: Shan Herald Agency for News
All the ethnic-democratic anti-junta forces responses are outright rejection and overwhelming negative to the SAC so-called peace overtures.
Sai WANSAI
China’s Peace Mandate in Myanmar
Source: China US Focus
Of all external parties with interest in domestic developments, China is most certainly in the best position to broker for peace in the country – should it choose to do so.
Brian Wong
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