Parties Suggest Myanmar Junta Expands Conscription

Source: Irrawaddy Representatives from a working group of political parties, led by 88 Generation leader U Ko Ko Gyi, chair of the People’s Party, made the suggestion at the regime’s National Solidarity and Peace Negotiation Committee led by Lieutenant General...

Number of IDPs in Myanmar Has Surged Above 1.8 Million

Source: Irrawaddy Between February 2021 and June 2023, another 1.5 million people in seven states and four regions were displaced by the civil war. They account for 82 percent of the more than 1.8 million internally displaced people in Myanmar. By Irrawaddy...