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Nationwide protests against the coup have been responded with murders, torture and mass arrests by the military regime. (Myanmar Now)
Seeking justice in the wake of Myanmar’s coup
The country’s military leaders have acted with impunity for decades, but now there is a mechanism to bring them to justice
Mar 19, 2021
Eleven journalist Kyaw Zaw Lin (front) and Phyo Wai Win (back) at Tamwe Court in October (Photo by Kay Zon Nway/ Myanmar Now)
Eleven Media journalists defiant after facing down incitement charges
Yangon’s chief minister has promised further legal action if Press Council negotiations are unsuccessful.
Dec 5, 2018
Nay Myo Aung, the MP-elect from the Union Solidarity and Development Party. (Credit: Myo Myo/Twitter)
USDP By-Election Winner Accused of Bribing Voters With Low Interest Loans
In the months leading up to the November 3 poll, the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) candidate for Seikkan township helped voters to secure micro-loans from an obscure...
Nov 20, 2018
Inmates at a plantation area near Yarzagyo prison labor camp in Kalay township, Sagging Region. (Photo: Swe Win/Myanmar Now)
‘Skeletons covered in skin’: inside Myanmar’s labour camps
Eight prisoners made a break for it, ignoring the pain in their emaciated bodies as they sprinted from the labour camp in Kabaw Valley in Myanmar’s northern Sagaing Region. They didn’t...
Nov 8, 2018
Army chief praises pro-Tatmadaw demonstrators, calls for more rallies
(Yangon)—The head of Myanmar’s armed forces, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, has praised nationalist protestors who took to the streets last month in a show of defiance against...
Nov 3, 2018
Police officer U Myint Aung said survivors who appeared "physically or mentally disabled" must provide medical documents before opening a case. Photo: Kay Zon Nway/Myanmar Now
'Why should the court trust an insane person?’ - how Myanmar fails rape survivors with autism
Discrimination and unnecessary bureaucracy present extra barriers for survivors with autism and disabilities.
Nov 2, 2018
A screengrab from a video that circulated on Facebook last month shows Wa soldiers demolishing a Christian cross.
Wa officials free over 100 Christians detained in crackdown
By Lumdau/Myanmar Now The powerful United Wa State Army has freed over 100 Christians who were detained in a recent crackdown against members of the religion in the autonomous...
Oct 4, 2018
Authorities arrest and charge protesters who on 3 July demonstrated against the erection of a bronze statue of General Aung San (Pic: Khun Athan)
Aung San in Kayah State: inside the political storm
LOIKAW — One night in 2012, in the Kayah State capital of Loikaw, a group of ethnic Karenni youths were engaged in clandestine activity. In advance of Martyrs’ Day, 19 July, they crept...
Jul 19, 2018
A farmer from Auk Magyi Chaung village of Bogalay Township, Ayeyarwady Region. (Pic: Aung Nyein Chan / Myanmar Now)
Human Rights Watch criticises slow progress in resolving land grabs
YANGON — US-based advocacy group Human Rights Watch has criticised slow progress in addressing historic land grabs, which continue to leave large numbers of people destitute, and...
Jul 19, 2018
Detained Reuters journalist Wa Lone speaks to members of the media at the Insein court in Yangon, Myanmar July 17, 2018. REUTERS/Ann Wang
Police pressured Reuters journalists to bury report on Inn Din massacre, says Wa Lone
YANGON — Jailed Reuters journalist Ko Wa Lone told a Yangon court on July 17 that during a police interrogation, which included sleep deprivation, police officers tried to induce him...
Jul 18, 2018
Daw Khin Ma Ma Myo, director of the Myanmar Institute of Gender Studies (Phyo Thiha Cho / Myanmar Now)
‘Gender equality is crucial to a culture of peace’
NAYPYIDAW — A gender equality proposal, outlining a 30 percent women’s quota in the peace process, was submitted to the “political” breakout session of the just-concluded Union Peace...
Jul 18, 2018
Naga rebels in the Indian state of Nagaland (Photo: Reuters)
Demand for independent Naga homeland bars NSCN-K from nationwide ceasefire
NAYPYIDAW — A faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) will not be allowed to sign the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) because of the ethnic Naga armed group’s...
Jul 16, 2018
An ambulance belonging to a private charity in Hpa-An, Kayin State. (Zarny Win / Myanmar Now)
Ambulance services to be integrated, brought under one call centre
Doctors from Yangon’s General Hospital and Medical University are overseeing an ambitious plan to integrate and standardise ambulance services in Myanmar, which would include a central...
Jul 12, 2018

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