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.
Karen State has seen a surge in scam centers, run by Chinese gangs and backed by EAOs, since China cracked down on such hubs on its border with Shan State,...
Residents flee Sagaing Region’s Shwe Pyi Aye as junta pounds the National Unity Government administered town and nearby villages with shelling and airstrikes.
The Kachin Independence Army and its allies now control all the roads into the prized jade hub in Kachin State.
The failure of deputy junta leader Soe Win to attend a cabinet meeting in Naypyitaw on April 22 is intensifying debate about his fate: was he wounded by a drone...
Residents of Kachin State’s Momauk Town are prohibited from fleeing by junta troops as artillery units pummel civilian neighborhoods.
Strategic trade town has faced scorched-earth attacks since regime troops were ousted in November.
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