ABSDF Suspends Three Members for Attending Myanmar Junta Event
Three members of the All Burma Students’ Democratic Front have been suspended from official duties for failing to comply with its boycott of a junta ceremony.
View ArticleMyanmar Junta Holds Talks With Political Parties to Open Offices
Under regime legislation, any party running nationally must open an office in at least half of Myanmar’s townships.
View ArticleJunta Boss Trying to Sow Division in Myanmar’s Oldest Ethnic Armed Group
Meeting with former Karen National Union chairman on Monday draws sharp criticism in resistance stronghold.
View ArticleMyanmar’s Opposition Parties Claim Exclusion From Proposed Election
The junta is promising a general election after a census is completed next October but it seems only regime allies will be allowed to take part.
View ArticleThree Years After Stolen Poll, Remembering Myanmar’s Persecuted Lawmakers
Hundreds of MPs elected on Nov. 8, 2020—almost all from the NLD—have been arrested or forced into hiding, or have lost their lives since the 2021 coup that ousted them.
View ArticleMyanmar Election Body Dissolves Pro-Democracy Party in Kokang Region
Election commission dissolves Shan State Kokang Democratic Party—the main rival of the regime-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party—for violating junta’s political party law.
View ArticleBrotherhood Alliance Denies Myanmar Junta Peace Deal Rumors
The alliance says its three members will fight the regime until a federal democracy is established.
View ArticleNo Deal Reached at China-Backed Talks Between Myanmar Junta, Ethnic Armies
Neither side can accept the status quo, which would be necessary in order for them to agree to stop fighting, a source with knowledge of the talks said.
View ArticleMyanmar Ethnic Alliance Says Ceasefire Only Thing Keeping It From Taking More...
The Brotherhood Alliance said that while it is obliged to honor the China-brokered deal, the Myanmar military violates it with fresh attacks on a daily basis.
View ArticleMyanmar Junta Boss Steps Up Election Talk as Military Defeats Mount
After losing control of so much territory, however, it remains to be seen how his regime would be able to hold such a poll.
View ArticleMyanmar Junta Accused of Insulting Beijing by Violating Ceasefire Near Shared...
Brotherhood Alliance says it has been honoring the China-brokered ceasefire in northern Shan State while the junta continues to attack civilians as well as troops from the alliance of ethnic armies.
View ArticleFormer Myanmar 88 Gen Leader Opens People’s Party Office in Yangon
Ko Ko Gyi has endorsed a junta election plan widely condemned as a sham aimed at cementing the military’s grip on power.
View ArticleMyanmar Junta Extends Emergency Rule by Six Months
The regime’s security council has extended emergency rule for a fifth time, saying it is fighting “terrorists”.
View ArticleMyanmar’s ‘Bloodless Coup’ Has Been a Three-Year Catastrophe
Min Aung Hlaing seized power from Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and her elected lawmakers without firing a single shot, but opposition to the coup swiftly escalated into a war that now engulfs the country.
View ArticleKachin Leader Calls for Voters to Shun Myanmar Junta Election
Kachin Independence Organization chairman General N’Ban La said the failing regime is desperately trying to divide all opposition groups.
View ArticleMyanmar Civilian Govt, Trade Union Confederation Blast ‘Illegal’ Conscription...
National Union Government and resistance organizations say move to impose military conscription is illegal. Pro-military groups take to the streets to show support for it.
View ArticleConscription Law Will Drive Myanmar Deeper Into War, Ethnic Armed Group Warns
Karen National Union calls for people across Myanmar to defy the conscription law as another armed ethnic group in southern Shan State warns it will get tough on those who try to evade conscription...
View ArticleTimeline: Myanmar Junta Fast-Tracks Conscription Law Implementation
The Irrawaddy presents a timeline of the many steps the regime has taken over the past month to make mandatory military conscription a reality.
View ArticleMyanmar Junta Boss Lauds Putin’s Win in Widely Condemned Presidential Vote
The regime’s newspapers congratulated the Russian strongman and junta ally on his ‘landslide’ victory in a poll dismissed by Western countries as rigged.
View ArticleMyanmar Junta Scrambling to Hang on to Pearl of Economic Partnership With China
After the United League of Arakan asserted it is the government of Rakhine State and called for foreign investors to work with it, the junta has been racing to show it is still in control.
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