Myanmar’s Crisis & the World

The junta’s top negotiator Min Naing, notorious for threatening nonstop bombing of resistance-held areas, was welcomed in Oslo at a meeting on peacebuilding initiatives worldwide.

Junta boss visits factory supplying helicopters used in four years of deadly attacks on civilian targets.

A Chinese envoy to the world body pushed back against what he called the ‘politicization’ of human rights following remarks by the UN’s special envoy on Myanmar.

The global labor watchdog in Switzerland says it will target the regime over labor rights breaches and its forced conscription. 

Dhaka is recalling its chief envoy in Yangon, Monowar Hossain, as relations with the junta sour over its contact with the Arakan Army.  

Some 285 civil society organizations from around the globe call on the ASEAN chairman to engage openly with the civilian National Unity Government and ethnic armed organizations.

The civilian National Unity Government says India should take responsibility for last week’s killing of 10 Tamu People’s Defense Team fighters by India’s armed forces. 

Min Aung Hlaing is attending Russia’s World War II commemorations in an apparent move to strengthen his armed forces.  

The US Treasury says it has sanctioned the Karen National Army over claims that the armed group profited from cyber scams and human trafficking in its territory. 

Civilian United Nations ambassador U Kyaw Moe Tun says the regime cannot be trusted with the nuclear power plant that Russia has pledged to build in Naypyitaw.