Over 5,000 residents from three villages in Shwebo Township, Sagaing Region, fled their homes after junta raids on Sunday. Shootouts occurred outside Pa Lai village on Sunday evening when resistance fighters used homemade rifles against large numbers of advancing junta troops. “They came with informants. At first, there was only a truck of them but […]Read More

It is sad, depressing and terrifying to see Myanmar facing a third wave of COVID-19. People are dying and crematoriums are overflowing in Yangon and elsewhere. It is a double blow to people in Myanmar, as they have been extraordinarily brave in resisting the attempted coup since February. This week, several charity groups said the […]Read More

Politicians from the ousted National League for Democracy (NLD) who have stayed in touch with Chinese officials since the Feb. 1 coup say Beijing was convinced in advance of the Myanmar military’s intention to overthrow the country’s elected government. These NLD figures—who have remained largely aloof from the activities of the shadow National Unity Government […]Read More

On June 30, the military regime released over 2,000 people who had been detained over the past five months for their involvement in the anti-junta movement. Most of those freed were civilians detained in anti-regime protests, as well as 12 journalists. The Irrawaddy has interviewed some of the freed journalists about how they were arrested […]Read More

Myanmar’s military regime has locked down the country’s second-largest city, Mandalay, due to a spike in Coronavirus infections in the city of more than 1 million people. Residents of the city’s seven townships were ordered to stay at home starting from dawn on Friday, in an announcement made by the regime’s Health Ministry on Thursday, […]Read More

Generally speaking, if you are a state official, how you are treated by the host country during an overseas trip says a lot about who you are. The degree of fanfare with which you are met matters. Who is there to greet you on your arrival at the airport is an indication of how you […]Read More

Some two months after the military takeover in February, the junta-controlled Ministry of Information started publishing books that denounced the anti-regime movement and praised the junta’s State Administrative Council. Since the coup by late military dictator General Ne Win in 1962, all the information ministers, including the current minister U Chit Naing, have been ex-military […]Read More

Myanmar military regime leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing flew out of the country on Sunday to attend a conference in Moscow. This is his second trip abroad since grabbing power from Myanmar’s democratically elected government in February. The official reason for his visit is to attend the Moscow Conference on International Security scheduled for […]Read More

National League for Democracy (NLD) Central Executive Committee member U Aung Kyi Nyunt says the military regime’s plan to abolish the party is a plot to illegally win the next general election. “As they know, there is no way to compete against the most popular party so they are trying to eliminate the NLD before […]Read More

Myanmar’s parallel National Unity Government (NUG) called on China to engage with them to find a solution to the country’s political crisis, while warning that any attempts to legitimise the military regime would risk undermining people to people relations between the two countries. In its open letter to China’s State Councilor and foreign minister Wang […]Read More