Karen News

A 65-year-old female political prisoner who was serving a 22-year sentence, Daw San Yi, died on 10 February and Ko Aung Tun, a 28-year-old male political prisoner serving a three-year sentence, died on 18 February according to PPNM. Daw San Yee was arrested on 22 April 2021 by Chanmyathazi Township police who accused her of sheltering three youths allegedly involved…

Currently most of the international attention is on the Karen State scam centres run by the junta-aligned Karen ethnic armed organisations (EAOs) the Karen Border Guard Force (BGF) and the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA). The Thai and Chinese governments, who have been at the forefront of rescuing people allegedly trafficked to work in scam centres controlled by those two…

The junta will use them as part of Operation Aung Zay Ya, its offensive to retake the section of AH1 that connects Myawaddy Town on the border with Thailand to Kawkareik Town. According to sources, the junta has been stockpiling hundreds of Turkish-made drones at its Military Operations Command 12 (MOC 12) and the Infantry Battalion (IB) 97 base in…

According to a statement by Political Prisoners Network-Myanmar (PPNM) a prison officer working in the cafeteria at Pyay Prison in Pyay Town punched a political prisoner unprovoked and for no reason. This prompted about 100 political prisoners to demand that the prison governor address the incident. As the political prisoners were demanding accountability from the governor two warning shots were…

The junta aircraft carried out three bombing runs, according to a resident of the nearby Theinkhun Village who spoke to KIC. He said: On 17 February, around 9:00 pm, Nyaungpinkwin Village was attacked with three bombing runs. The bombs dropped were likely incendiary bombs. As soon as they hit, the houses were immediately engulfed in flames. Many houses were burned…

On Saturday 15 February, a day when the courts were shut, over 50 immigration department staff processed the Rohingya detainees according to Political Prisoners Network Myanmar (PPNM). It said that at about 3:00 am on 16 February military and police personnel removed the 936 Rohingya from Insein Prison. All had been kept illegally imprisoned after completing their sentences, with some…

In the first two weeks of February 2025 junta troops, working with junta-appointed ward administrators in Tanintharyi Region’s Tanintharyi Town abducted at least 17 young men during surprise house searches conducted under the pretext of checking on overnight guests. Rather than restricting such inspections to the evenings, they are now being carried out at all times of day and are…

The IDPs used to live in Theinkhun Village Tract, and the villages of Htonmakhar and Thabawtleik in Tanintharyi Township. Due to fighting in the area they were forced to flee their homes and seek shelter in the nearby forest, where they have set up several camps. A lack of clean water and poor hygiene conditions in the forest have led…

Ahnankwin Village is home to the junta’s hill-based Tactical Operation Command (TOC). In 2024, resistance forces attempted, unsuccessfully, to capture the TOC. There was fierce fighting but the junta managed to keep control of the TOC by sending in reinforcements three times, but it also incurred heavy casualties. As a result of this fighting nearly all the villagers fled and…

The column was dispatched to the area from Launglon Township in Tanintharyi Region after local resistance forces attacked and burned down the Shwegu Bridge junta checkpoint, also in Dawei Township. Comrade Shadow, a spokesperson for the Launglon Township Revolution Force said to KIC: “The column was originally a unit based in Yebyu Town in Tanintharyi Region and stationed in Launglon,…