Tag Archives: Myanmar

Sentence appears to be the longest jail term given to a former member of Aung San Suu Kyi’s overthrown government and party. A court in military-ruled Myanmar has handed a 148-year prison sentence to a former parliamentarian from the deposed National League for Democracy (NLD) party, adding to a previous …

Air strikes by Myanmar’s military have killed more than 60 people, including singers and soldiers attending an anniversary celebration at a concert in Myanmar.   The reported attack comes three days before Southeast Asian foreign ministers are to hold a special meeting in Indonesia to discuss widening violence in Myanmar.     Ethnic …

More than a million Rohingya live in camps in southern Bangladesh that comprise the world’s largest refugee settlements. A Rohingya teenage was killed and at least six people were injured when a mortar shell fired from Myanmar exploded inside Bangladesh territory, local officials and a Rohingya leader said. The youth …

Myanmar authorities alleged the address Vicky Bowman had registered to her visa did not match her residence, according to military junta’s statement. Breaches of Myanmar’s Immigration Act carry a maximum sentence of five years in prison. On Wednesday night, Bowman, who served as the UK’s top diplomat in Myanmar from …

Opinion by Jan Servaes (brussels) Tuesday, August 02, 2022 Inter Press Service BRUSSELS, Aug 02 (IPS) – Myanmar has been embroiled in violence and civil unrest since the military ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in a coup in February 2021. The initially widespread peaceful protests were crushed …

The World Court on Friday rejected Myanmar’s objections to a genocide case over its treatment of the Muslim Rohingya minority, paving the way for the case to be heard in full. Myanmar, now ruled by a military junta that seized power in 2021, had argued that Gambia, which brought the …

With both regimes increasingly isolated on the world stage, Myanmar’s top general has been in Moscow to meet senior officials from Russia’s defence ministry, pledging deeper military ties and cooperation on nuclear energy. “They frankly exchanged views on further promotion of existing friendly relations and military-technological cooperation,” Myanmar state media …

Tom Andrews accuses Myanmar military of mounting ‘relentless attacks’ on children since seizing power in February 2021. The world risks creating a “lost generation” of children in Myanmar unless it takes immediate steps to protect them from the violence perpetrated by the military since it seized power in February 2021, …