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07/29/2022

Journalist jailed for terrorism

July 29, 2022

Freelance reporter Ko Maung Myo, also known as Maung Maung Myo, was sentenced to six years in prison on Friday by a junta court in Karen State’s Hpa-an under the Counter-Terrorism Law. Earlier this month, female journalist Ma Nyein Nyein Aye was sentenced to three years in prison with hard labor on incitement charges by a junta tribunal inside Yangon's Insein Prison. At least 140 journalists have been arrested since the coup and 63 of them remain behind bars. (Photo: Journalist Ko Maung Myo)

Irrawaddy

07/29/2022

You can be arrested in Myanmar 🇲🇲 just simply because of posting on social about the brutal murder and killing of the junta.That Hta Swe is arrested today by the junta regime after sharing posts relating to the ex*****on of four political prisoners on her Facebook.

06/23/2022

Rakhine Situation Getting more tense
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A military official in Sittway was arrested by AA. The witness said he had 3 stars on his arm. 👇👇

https://www.facebook.com/151742128171206/posts/5577791405566224/?d=n

Another military officer was arrested in Sittway, Witnesses say. 👇👇

https://www.facebook.com/151742128171206/posts/5575700192442012/?d=n

Three SaRaPhas in Mrauk Oo were arrested by AA yesterday. 👇👇

https://www.facebook.com/151742128171206/posts/5577999438878754/?d=n

Two police in Kyauk Ni Maw, Yabye were arrested by AA on 22nd June. 👇👇👇

https://www.facebook.com/151742128171206/posts/5575501359128562/?d=n

Prior to those arrests by AA, SAC locked down Mrauk Oo and arrested more than 30 civilians including students. 👇👇👇

https://www.facebook.com/151742128171206/posts/5574780722533959/?d=n

Over 30 others were arrested in Kyauk Taw by SAC, out of whom only 4 persons were released. 👇👇👇

https://www.facebook.com/151742128171206/posts/5574427862569245/?d=n

ကျောက်တော်တွင် ဖမ်းဆီးခံခဲ့ရသူများအနက် အမျိုးသမီး ၄ ဦးကိုပြန်လွှတ်ပေး

နိရဥ္စရာ၊ ဇွန် ၂၂ /၂ဝ၂၂

ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ် ကျောက်တော်မြို့တွင် ဖမ်းဆီးခံခဲ့ရသူများအနက် အမျိုးသမီး ၄ ဦးကို ယမန်နေ့ညက ပြန်လွှတ်ပေးလိုက်သည်ဟု သိရသည်။

လွတ်မြောက်လာသူများမှာ ကျောက်တော်မြို့ ရှမ်းရွာရပ်ကွက်မှ ၂ ဦး၊ မြို့သစ်ရပ်ကွက်မှ ၁ ဦးနှင့် ပြည်တော်သာရပ်ကွက်မှ ၁ ဦးတို့ဖြစ်ပြီး သူတို့ကို ယမန်နေ့ ဇွန်လ ၂၁ ရက် ည ၁၁ နာရီခွဲခန့်တွင် လွှတ်ပေးလိုက်ခြင်းဖြစ်သည်ဟု မြို့ခံများက ပြောသည်။

မြို့ခံတစ်ဦးက “မနေ့ညက ကားအမဲတွေနဲ့ အိမ်ကိုလာပို့ပြီး လွှတ်ပေးလိုက်တာဖြစ်ပါတယ်”ဟု ပြောသည်။

လွတ်မြောက်လာသူများအနက် ရှမ်းရွာပန်းပဲတန်းရပ်ကွက်မှ ၂ ဦးမှာ အသက် ၂ဝ ကျော်ခန့်ရှိပြီး ကျန် ၂ ဦးမှာ အသက် ၃ဝ ကျော်ခန့်ရှိသည်ဟုလည်း သိရသည်။

သူတို့ ၄ ဦးသည် နောက်ထပ် မြို့ခံ အမျိုးသား ၃ဝ ဦးခန့်နှင့်အတူ ယမန်နေ့နေ့လယ်က ကျောက်တော်မြို့အတွင်း စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်ဖွဲ့ဝင်များက အချုပ်ကားဖြင့်တင်ဆောင်ကာ ဖမ်းဆီးသွားခဲ့ခြင်းဖြစ်သည်ဟု မြို့ခံများက ပြောသည်။

ဖမ်းဆီးခံရသူများတွင်ပါဝင်သွားသည့်အမျိုးသားများကိုမူ ယနေ့ ဇွန်လ ၂၂ ရက် နံနက်ပိုင်းအထိ ပြန်လွှတ်ပေးသည်ကို မကြားရသေးဟုလည်း မြို့ခံများက ပြောသည်။

ကျောက်တော်မြို့မရဲစခန်းတွင်တာဝန်ထမ်းဆောင်နေသည့် ရဲတပ်ဖွဲ့ဝင် ၃ ဦးကို ဇွန်လ ၂ဝ ရက် ညနေ ၆ နာရီခန့်က ကျောက်တော်မြို့ မြို့သစ်ရပ်ကွက်ရှိ ဘောလုံးကွင်းအနီး AA က ဖမ်းဆီးသွားပြီးနောက် ယင်းနေ့ညနှင့် ယမန်နေ့တို့တွင် ကျောက်တော်မြို့ပေါ်၌ လုံခြုံရေးတင်းကျပ်ကာ ဖမ်းဆီးစစ်ဆေးခဲ့မှုများ ရှိနေခဲ့ခြင်းဖြစ်သည်ဟု သိရသည်။

ယင်းသို့စစ်ဆေးမှုများတင်းကျပ်ခဲ့၍ ကျောက်တော်မြို့မစျေးကိုလည်း နေ့တစ်ဝက်နှင့်ပိတ်လိုက်ရသလို စာသင်ကျောင်းများကိုလည်း နေ့တစ်ပိုင်းနှင့် ပြန်လွှတ်လိုက်ရသည်ဟု မြို့ခံများက ပြောသည်။

ယနေ့နံနက်ပိုင်းတွင် မြို့အခြေအနေမှာ တည်ငြိမ်နေသည်ဟု သိရသည်။ (NN-2)

ဓာတ်ပုံ - ဖမ်းဆီးစစ်ဆေးမှုများရှိခဲ့၍ လူသွားလူလာနည်းနေသည့် ကျောက်တော်မြို့တွင်းတစ်နေရာအား ယမန်နေ့ ဇွန်လ ၂၁ ရက် နေ့လယ်ပိုင်းက တွေ့ရစဉ်။

03/08/2022

A blow to Russia!

The possibility that the United States might ban Russian oil imports has triggered a surge in Brent crude to almost $140 a barrel, its highest level since 2008.

03/08/2022

‘The heroism of the people of has been as impressive as the heroism of ’ - Myanmar NOW myanmar-now.org/en/news/the-he… via

Myanmar Now speaks to prominent human rights campaigner Igor Blazevic about what the war in Ukraine means for Myanmar’s struggle for freedom from military rule

03/06/2022

In the press conference of Arakan Army (AA) today, praised the ability of fighters and appreciate their will of revolution against the repression.

03/06/2022

Army ( ) clearly announced that unless they could achieve their political goals, they would just establish their own nation in collaboration with the international communities.

03/06/2022

The Army press conference has come about on the account of the widespread criticism over their administrative and judiciary system. That’s very good development. It shows they listen to the voice of people. Keep up the good work!

03/05/2022

Important subject that we need to talk more about & highlights the need for mental health support. Scary how familiar the signs in the article are - you either have direct experience or know someone who does

Thank you

Journalists and investigators witnessing Myanmar violence report suffering depression, anxiety and survivor’s guilt.

03/05/2022

Excellent & meticulously-sourced report by on Thein Win Zaw, tycoon behind shadowy deal for Telenor Myanmar, & his co. Shwe Byain Phyu, on verge of taking over key telco and user data of 18m-plus users. A must-read for anyone who cares

Military ties and shady business practices have made Thein Win Zaw one of Myanmar’s richest men

03/05/2022

On , the world acts; on Myanmar, it waits.

Russia has invaded a sovereign state, while Myanmar had a violent overthrow of a democratic government.

03/05/2022

Ridiculous. Junta believes in cutting data to constrain the resistance. What just happened in Arakan State after a year-long ? People suffered & hate aganist the Military grew. The resistance was just even getting stronger.

(Thinzar Shunlei Yi)

Locals speculate that the expanded internet block—which includes all but four cities in the region—may signify that the military is planning a ‘major assault’

03/05/2022

New: Zelensky in late night address tonight slams NATO over ruling out no-fly zone. “This is the self-hypnosis of those who are weak, insecure inside, despite the fact they possess weapons many times stronger than we have," he said.

(Natasha Bertrand)

03/04/2022

The has arbitrarily revoked citizenship from the following people.

(1) Zaw Wai Soe (Father: U Mg Lay),
(2) Ye Mon aka Tin Thit (Father: U Kyaw Swe),
(3) Lwin Ko Latt (Father: U Hla Win),
(4) Zin Mar Aung (Father: U Aung Kyi),
(5) Htin Linn Aung (Father: U Thein Aung),
(6) Aung Myo Min (Father: U Min Aung),
(7) Ei Thinzar Maung (Father: U Toe Toe Maung), Dr. Sasa (Father: U An Pi aka AB),
(8) Min Ko Naing aka Paw U Tun (Father: U Thet Nyunt),
(9) Myo Yan Naung Thein (Father: U Mya Thein),
(10) Ei Pan Sal Lo aka Eaint Poe U (Father: U Kyaw Naing.

This action is said to be further taken against more people.

03/04/2022

"we have control of 75 per cent of [...] we have been running our own schools, charities and clinics in almost all the rural areas in Chin except Paletwa Township."

~ Salai Htet Ni, spokesperson for the /

https://www.irrawaddy.com/in-person/interview/chin-resistance-fighters-expect-more-myanmar-junta-attacks-this-month.html

Chin National Army spokesperson tells The Irrawaddy that it is crucial that resistance groups nationwide collaborate to force the regime to fight on many fronts.

03/04/2022

“security forces detained at least 85 youths in Feb using tactics that included posing as fellow activists on social media to find information on their locations. the arrests marked a new high for the number of Yangon protesters detained in a single month”

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/arrests-03022022185117.html

Sources say police used social media to detain a record number of protesters last month.

03/04/2022

Due to the fire set by the forces on the Shwe Kyin village of Tant Sé township, Sagaing region, the entire village has tuned into ashes.

https://t.me/khitthitnews/29390

03/04/2022

forces have arrested 60 local people as hostages from the Kyauk Taing village of Wat Lat Township, Sagaing region just by raiding into each and every house with an ambush patrol around the village.

https://www.myanmar-now.org/mm/news/10636

03/04/2022

military cuts off the electricity 6 hours a day in some townships and 12 hours in some others, on the regular basis.



https://www.myanmar-now.org/mm/news/10634

အချို့သောမြို့နယ်များတွင် နေ့စဉ် ခြောက်နာရီခန့်၊ အချို့မြို့နယ်များတွင် ၁၂ နာရီအထက် ပြတ်တောက်နေကြောင်း ရ.....

03/04/2022

Three women in the Dawei prison, arbitrarily arrested by the are badly in need of medical care.



https://www.myanmar-now.org/mm/news/10645

03/03/2022

“Releasing a chick from a chicken-run back into the chicken-run is not something to praise. Perhaps, it will be if they drop the chick-killing knife, my acolyte”

(Reference to the release of some celebrities by the junta)

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03/03/2022

: Internet been cut off in most of the towns across the region starting from 22:45, according to the local sources. Particular war-torn areas in the region been under shutdown for more than 6 months, such as Yinmarbin, Kani, Pale, etc.

(Cape Diamond)

03/03/2022

Yesterday, SAC troops forcibly abducted 3 people—Ko Aung Myo Ko, president of ABFSU from Mandalar education degree college, Ma Thiri Yadanar, the secretary, and CDMmer Ko Kyaw Zin Latt—in . Meanwhile, a local recording that incident was also SHOT DEAD ...1

03/03/2022

A Belarusian military delegate consisting of 10~15 personnel arrived to NPT on Feb 27 & expected to leave by Mar 3. A Russian cargo flight Il-76 will also fly to NPT frm Russia on Mar 5.
MAL regime is clearly stepping up mil cooperation with Putin.

(Nicholas)

03/03/2022

"We fight for democracy here. They fight for their democracy there," he said. "We are like friends. Its the same feeling, the same ideology."

Story by .

Far-off Thailand might not seem an obvious place for recruits to Ukraine's efforts to raise an international volunteer force to defend against Russia's invasion.

03/03/2022

issues 2nd statement in less than a week on & after passed resolution condemning attacks. 2nd statement remains mild as bloc again refuses to outrightly condemn Russian invasion, calling it "military hostilities" instead

(May Wong)

03/03/2022

This heartbreaking video of a 75yr old grandma being consoled by members of KNDF to evacuate the village as the fascist forces advanced. She had no children or relatives and alone.
She was successfully carried away by our fighters.
(Nicholas)

03/03/2022

Norway’s Telenor is planning to transfer $100M held by to military-linked Shwe Byain Phyu - an amount roughly equivalent to how much it will be paid over 5 yrs for the sale.

Telenor: exit responsibly!🚫
STOP THE SALE to military-linked biz.

Norway's Telenor is planning to transfer $100 million held by its troubled Myanmar operations to the unit's new buyers - an amount roughly equivalent to how much it will be paid over five years, three people with knowledge of the deal's terms said.

03/03/2022

A few observations about the just-concluded General Assembly vote condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The vote was 141-5. And the bottom line is that Vladimir Putin is more isolated than ever before (1/7):

(Samantha Power)

Noteworthy observations by on the unprecedented condemnation of ’s invasion of by UN member states today. Noteworthy also that , represented at the UNGA by democratic and not the military junta, of course condemned Russia as well…

(Mathew Smith)

03/02/2022

Just after the coup, the Dynasty International, an arms broker which has a strong connection with Belarus, and Germany, supplied arms and equipments to the military .

✅ Myanmar👉🏽 bit.ly/3sAzaDl
✅ English 👉🏽 bit.ly/344NXMW

03/02/2022

Film stars “Lu Min, Pyay Ti Oo, Eaindra Kyaw Zin, Paing Takon”, the director “Wyne” and the beauty blogger “Win Min Thant” have been released today by the military .

Source from Irrawaddy

03/01/2022

Watching the war in Ukraine, Taiwanese draw lessons in self resilience

https://twitter.com/sebastianepayne/status/1498620035111305218?s=21

03/01/2022

In & , civilians are forced to flee intensifying conflict. Dozens have been killed as routes for delivering humanitarian aid are blocked. Airstrikes by the junta have made things worse - aviation fuel must be cut. 📣Targeted sanctions now.

Clashes add thousands to the list of displaced persons since the military’s coup a year ago.

03/01/2022

NEW📣Arms broker w/ links to , & supplied junta since attempted coup. Most recent import from Dynasty Int., led by Dr Aung Moe Myint, was Mi-17 parts from Ural Avia in Russia. Sanction Dynasty now! Feature w/ leaked docs 👉🏽bit.ly/3Me630n

03/01/2022

democracy activists hold rally in support of

Many in Myanmar feel solidarity with Ukrainians’ fight to repel Vladimir Putin’s military aggression, and see a common enemy in Russia, a strong supporter of the junta.

03/01/2022

‘UNCONSCIONABLE’: Sen. warns the world may spiral into chaos if the Biden administration doesn’t ‘crush Putin’s oil and gas economy.’ fxn.ws/3ManD5h

03/01/2022

Mass defections of soldiers play a critical role in winning the revolution. Today, we highlight the voice of Sergeant Yin Lei Lei Tun who refused to murder the civilians she swore to protect and joined the CDM movement.

03/01/2022

An appeal shall be made against the decree of the case of Min Dipar, a youth writer sentenced to 10 year imprisonment for allegedly having suspicious ties with .

03/01/2022

The verdict of the case of Aung Win Naing arrested for allegedly having suspicious connection with Arakan Army will be issued on 14th March 2021.

Source from Western News

03/01/2022

28 Feb 2021: Myanmar junta forces used helicopters in Kani and Yinnmar townships of Sagaing region, which caused civilian casualties.

စစ္ကိုင္းတိုင္း ယင္းမာပင္နယ္နဲ႔ ကနီနယ္တို႔မွာ စစ္ေကာင္စီက ေလေၾကာင္းကေန တိုက္ခိုက္ၿပီး နယ္ေျမ ရွင္းလင္းတာ.....