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Woman Volunteer in Critical Condition after a Burma Army Attack • 8 March 2022
Karenni State, Burma
Dear friends,
Please pray for Elizabeth, 25, pictured below on the right and Rozaru, 18, on the left, here delivering food for a relief program. They were hit by a Burma Army 122 mm mortar shell at 10 a.m. this…
A Jungle School of Medic Story: Naw She Mu • Karen State, Burma
Naw She Mu, 47, was admitted to FBR’s Jungle School of Medicine (JSMK) Inpatient Patient Department (IPD) due to shortness of breath. She has had asthma for years but is not on any medications for it. She arrived in mild distress and was…
Myanmar Military Clashes With Arakan Army, Threatening Ceasefire
Since Friday, violent clashes have taken place between the Myanmar military and one of the country’s largest rebel groups in Rakhine State, threatening to undermine a ceasefire that is vital to the military junta’s control of the country.…
Myanmar marks first coup anniversary with silent strike
Yangon/Myanmar - The streets of Yangon Tuesday turned silent as the Burmese staged a nationwide strike to mark the first coup anniversary by the military junta that saw the overthrow of the Noble Prize winner Aung San Suu KY and her…
‘World sitting and watching’ Burmese politician says as Myanmar slides to war
A year after the coup, renewed calls for action against a military accused of ‘heinous’ attacks on civilians and those resisting its rule.
One year since the military coup in Myanmar, calls for international action are growing louder,…
Myanmar’s military turns to Buddhism in bid for legitimacy
Generals court country’s monks to try and win respect in an environment where ‘almost everybody hates them’.
A plan is underway for Min Aung Hlaing, head of Myanmar’s military and leader of last year’s coup, to build the biggest…
UN rights chief urges leaders to pressure Myanmar to halt violence
Michelle Bachelet demands quick restoration of civilian rule in the country almost a year after the military takeover.
The United Nations human rights chief has urged world leaders to ramp up the pressure on Myanmar’s military rulers to…
Myanmar sentences lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, activist to death
A closed military court in Myanmar has sentenced a lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party and a prominent democracy activist to death.
The NLD’s Phyo Zeyar Thaw, who was arrested in November, was…
workers held in prisons express their suffering
Yangon/Myanmar - A large number of Myanmar factory workers in Guangyuan, China, near the Myanmar border, suffer from harsh working conditions and inhuman treatment by Chinese employers.
Beijing authorities arrested a large number of them…
Thousands flee Myanmar’s Kayah state capital as fighting escalates
Some 60,000 people are on the run after military airstrikes against local armed groups.
At least 60,000 people, more than two-thirds of residents in the capital of Myanmar’s Kayah (Karenni) state, have fled and been displaced by fighting…