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Leaders of NCA-signatory ethnic armed organizations hold a virtual meeting on March 11.
NCA-signatory EAOs discuss how to prevent further bloodshed by regime
The 10 ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) that signed the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) met on Thursday to discuss strategies to stop the Myanmar military’s ongoing violent crackdown on anti-...
Win Aung Nyein, the principal of the high school in Htangaing village, was taken into custody by security forces on Thursday.
Security forces inspect civilians’ phones, make arrests in Magwe Region
The military council’s armed forces arrested a high school principal and two labourers in Magwe Region’s Minhla Township on the morning of March 11, according to residents.  Win Aung Nyein, the...
Kachin Independence Army (KIA) cadets follow drills at a training school in the Burmese town of Laiza, on the border with China. (Photo: Paul Vrieze)
Military clashes with KIA after ambush in Kachin state
Clashes broke out in Kachin state’s Mohnyin district on Thursday following an ambush attack on a Myanmar military camp by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA). The KIA ambushed the camp, based near...
Soldiers from the 33rd LID are seen arresting protesters during the crackdown in Mandalay in February. (Myanmar Now)
At least 12 killed as junta continues bid to terrorize Myanmar’s population into submission
At least 12 died across the country on Thursday as the coup regime unleashed more savage attacks on protesters, part of a campaign to terrorize the population into submission in response to a...
Family members are pictured in mourning at the funeral of Zaw Myat Lynn, an official from Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party. He was taken into regime custody alive on the night of March 6, but the following day his family was notified that he had died.
Detained at night, lifeless by morning: Arrests under Myanmar’s junta
Under the current military regime, members of Myanmar’s public have increasingly been taken into custody alive at night, only to have their bodies returned to their families the following morning...
Protesters are seen demonstrating in Myaing on March 11 just before security forces opened fire, killing six of the people present.
Six killed in Myaing protest crackdown
Six people were shot dead by security forces during a brutal crackdown on protests against the military coup in the town of Myaing in upper Myanmar’s Magwe Region at around 11:00 a.m. on Thursday...
An injured protester is carried to safety by fellow protesters in front of Kantharyar park in North Okkalapa on March 10.
At least 100 protesters detained and one shot in North Okkalapa, one week after a deadly crackdown
Police and soldiers arrested between 100 and 200 people and shot at least one during another vicious attack on peaceful protesters in North Okkalapa on Wednesday morning.  The attack came a week...
A railway worker carries an elderly resident of the Ma Hlwa Gone housing estate to safety on March 10. (Photo: Kaung Sett Lin / Facebook)
Railway workers flee as security forces take control of housing compound
Hundreds of people living in a residential compound for employees of the state-owned Myanma Railways in Yangon fled their homes on Wednesday to avoid being trapped inside by security forces....
Protesters show injuries inflicted by soldiers after their arrest.
‘Military dogs bite,’ soldiers tell protesters as they inflict vicious beatings
“They took turns, beating us relentlessly. We couldn’t stay on our knees for long. Every time we fell, they would start beating on us again. So many of us were beaten up,” said a 30-year-old man...
Mizzima’s newsroom is pictured following a raid by security forces on Tuesday (Supplied)
Myanmar military storms Mizzima’s office in a third raid on local media in two days 
The Myanmar military raided the office of news outlet Mizzima in the Star City compound in southeastern Yangon on Tuesday afternoon, the publication’s editor told Myanmar Now. Editor-in-chief Soe...

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