The Irrawaddy’s latest roundup includes incidents in Rakhine and Kachin states and Bago and Sagaing regions.
People in their 70s and a blind man were reportedly among those killed in Myingyan Township raids in response to resistance attacks.
Also this week, the regime cut communications to halt resistance advances, and launched ‘bribe-or-serve’ scheme for depleted military.
Video by Arakan Army highlights testimony of civilians captured by junta troops in Rakhine State who narrowly escaped execution after being used as porters and human shields.
The country’s youth are at extreme risk due to the regime’s enactment of the law mandating military service for young people, he said.
The Pa-O National Liberation Army says it has been targeted by the regime since it vowed to liberate the territory in late January.
The Irrawaddy presents a timeline of the many steps the regime has taken over the past month to make mandatory military conscription a reality.
Trade was set to resume at a border town in northern Shan State on Monday, but merchants say the junta continues to block the road to the town, which was...
The freedom of expression group Athan says the regime is cutting communications to stop anti-regime groups coordinating.
Prisoner of war videotaped by captors saying his battalion blew up two bridges in the western state as it abandoned a town in Taungup Township last month.
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