Myanmar’s military was behind dozens of Facebook pages that operated to spread hate speech against the Rohingya before violence against the Muslim minority in 2017. This information was given in a report of the United Nations on Wednesday. Facebook has long been accused of facilitating the spread of widespread hate speech against the Rohingya. In […]
Read More90 Myanmar junta forces surrendered to the Arakan Army (AA) rebel group last Monday. The anti-junta Arakan Army has launched an attack on a junta base in western Myanmar’s Rakhine state, according to a report by Radio Free Asia (RFA), residents of a village in the town of Maungdoo, south of the Bangladesh border. As […]
Read MoreIn 2021, Myanmar’s pro-democracy Aung San Suu Kyi government was ousted by the country’s military junta in a coup d’état. Later, various armed rebel groups of the country started fighting to oust this junta government. By late October last year, the fight had spread across the country. Myanmar’s military extended a state of emergency in […]
Read MoreMyanmar, March 21: Imprisoned Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s home has been put up for auction. The starting price of his home, which was auctioned on Wednesday, was set at $90 million. But no one came to buy the house. According to a report in the British news agency Reuters on Wednesday, Suu Kyi’s […]
Read MoreUnited Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed deep concern over recent reports of military airstrikes in Myanmar, particularly the devastating strikes witnessed in Minbya township on Monday, which resulted in numerous civilian casualties, according to a UN spokesperson. Since the military coup in 2021, Myanmar has been embroiled in a state of unrest, with the latest […]
Read MoreThe Arakan Army, a rebel group, has taken over the city of Rathidong in Rakhine state from Myanmar’s junta government. Last Sunday night, at least 200 soldiers of the Junta forces fled after two weeks of intense fighting. According to the Irrawaddy report on the Arakan Army, the junta is using the Rohingyas who have […]
Read MoreThe land that was once used to grow various crops like rice, corn and wheat is now being cultivated with poppy from which opium is made. Due to the economic crisis caused by the ongoing conflict for the last three years after the military coup, the country’s farmers have left the cultivation of food grains […]
Read MoreThe fighting rebels claimed to take over the headquarters of Infantry Battalion 237 of the Myanmar junta forces. It was captured by the Kachin Independent Army (KIA) and its allies on Thursday (March 14). According to a report by The Irrawaddy newspaper, the rebels seized the headquarters on Thursday, a week after the attack in […]
Read MoreThe junta has cut off telecommunications and internet connections in at least 80 cities in various states and regions, including Myanmar’s Sagain region. On Friday (March 15), the country’s human rights organization Athan Myanmar reported this information, The Irrawaddy newspaper reported. According to the report, out of these 80 cities, the Sagain region has the […]
Read MoreAs leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) convene in Melbourne for the ASEAN-Australia Special Summit, the backdrop of an increasingly assertive China and the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Myanmar is set to dominate discussions. The summit, commemorating 50 years since Australia’s partnership with ASEAN, brings together leaders from nine of the 10 […]
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