All 74 lawmakers jailed in ASEAN are in Myanmar prisons and 73 of them are members of the National League for Democracy, report by ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights says.
Regime troops, with naval and air force support, have seized a village on the border of Mon and Karen states, which controls key roads.
Civilian death toll from indiscriminate shelling in Sagaing township is rising daily, according to local strike committee.
Junta accused of another war crime after its military bombs a hospital in Chin State’s Mindat Township on Thursday night, killing civilians and destroying the facility.
Residents of the region are enduring unusually high temperatures, with schools closing and people being advised to stay indoors.
Beijing is looking to intensify its joint crackdown on crime syndicates, its public security minister told junta Home Affairs Minister Yar Pyae.
The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army displayed the condemned men on a stage in Kokang’s capital and announced their death sentences via loud speakers.
The ethnic army said the villagers from Maungdaw were killed by ‘criminal gangs’. It denied reports that its forces had detained the five prior to their deaths.
Locals in Yangon and three other regions report draft-age people are being seized on the street and in their homes.
Karen National Liberation Army commander say regime troops fled their base and left their weapons behind so they could pass themselves off as civilians to escape the area.
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