4,500 people have been left homeless in Sagaing Region’s Khin-U Township following junta raids in over a dozen villages that have seen more than 900 houses burned down.
The regime said a public security system has developed and it will support it with manpower and equipment.
The civilian humanitarian relief minister, Dr. Win Myat Aye, tells The Irrawaddy how his ministry is helping hundreds of thousands of those displaced by junta atrocities.
The junta’s Minister for International Cooperation has spent much of his career defending past and present military regimes and pumping out propaganda for dictators.
Daw Ywat Nu Aung’s disappearance in Mandalay comes as the city is experiencing a series of extra-judicial killings of NLD members by a pro-junta militia.
The letter to President Xi Jinping from 558 organizations says Chinese projects should cease operations until the junta has been toppled.
The bloc spokesperson said the jail sentence by Myanmar junta court was another major setback for democracy since the coup.
Regime troops are increasingly using mines to terrorize civilians in the strategically important state.
Ambassadors of the two Asian giants met with head of regime’s electoral body to discuss junta’s planned 2023 poll that has been widely rejected in Myanmar.
The COVID-19 surge in Myanmar poses a super-spreader threat and without cross-border vaccination, Thailand could be at risk.
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