The day after the junta released 3,303 people from prisons in a nationwide conditional amnesty, guards opened fire on a protest in a prison in Kachin State, killing four people...
The junta’s No. 2 has not been seen in public since April 3, sparking rumors that he was either gravely injured in a resistance drone attack or purged by Min...
A splinter group of the New Mon State Party says it has stopped a regime convoy in Kyaikmayaw Township.
Since seizing Myawaddy, KNU/KNLA and PDF forces have remained outside it, leaving security within the town to ‘neutral’ Karen groups, residents said.
Around 30,000 sheltering in Kale are prey to heatstroke as the Sagaing township runs out of water, say health volunteers.
The junta merely said it would take steps to shield elderly prisoners from the heat; there is no evidence to support reports she was moved to house arrest, sources say.
At least 20,000 political prisoners remain locked up in Myanmar following the junta’s New Year amnesty on Wednesday in which only a tiny fraction of those released were dissidents.
Bangkok calls on junta to free democracy leaders from house arrest in line with ASEAN’s Five Point Consensus peace plan.
Sources said Dr. Hkalam Samson, his wife and a third person were taken from the Baptist minister’s home early Thursday. No reason has yet been given for his detention.
Former Kachin Baptist Convention president Dr Hkalam Samson has been released from Myitkyina prison in Myanmar's new year amnesty.
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