We found 10 bodies last night and one this morning,” said a monk from Kyauk Kar village in the southern Tanintharyi region, from where the boat had left Sunday evening. According to the monk, who asked for anonymity to talk to the media, the boat had been carrying mostly students returning to Myeik city from […]
Myanmar police fired on protesters around the country on Sunday on the bloodiest day of weeks of demonstrations against a military coup and at least 18 people were killed, the U.N. human rights office said. Police were out in force early and opened fire in different parts of the biggest city of Yangon after stun […]
Police opened fire on protesters in the Myanmar city of Mandalay on Saturday, leaving at least two dead; according to volunteer emergency workers cited by Reuters and AFP news agencies who have reporters on the ground. One of the victims was shot in the head and died at the scene; according to Frontier Myanmar; a […]
Thousands of people in Myanmar participated in protest marches over the weekend, decrying the military coup. tensions escalated, police confronted one of the rallies and reportedly fired shots in the air The incident, which reportedly happened in the border town of Myawaddy on Sunday, shows the fragility of the situation. The mass protests – the […]
The new military rulers of Myanmar on Friday ordered mobile operators and internet service providers to block access to Twitter and Instagram in the country until further notice, Norwegian telecom Telenor said. The government had already ordered internet providers on Thursday to block Facebook; which counts half of the population of 54 million as users, […]
Myanmar police have charged Aung San Suu Kyi with possession of illegally-imported walkie-talkies, which could result in a two-year prison sentence. A document from a police station in the capital said military officers who searched Aung San Suu Kyi’s residence had found handheld radios that were imported illegally and used without permission by her bodyguards. […]
US President Joe Biden on Monday threatened to reimpose sanctions on Myanmar following a coup by the country’s military leaders and called for a concerted international response to push them into relinquishing power. Biden condemned the military’s takeover from the civilian-led government on Monday and its detention of the country’s elected leader Aung San Suu […]
Myanmar’s military seized power on Monday in a coup against the democratically elected government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi; who was detained along with other leaders of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party in early morning raids. The army said it had carried out the detentions in response to “election fraud”; handing […]
