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Junta Burns Down 50 Houses in Ahnankwin Village, Karen State

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…

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Junta Burns Down Homes in Dawei Township Village

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,…

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Junta Committed 108 Human Rights Violations in Karenni State in 2024

The report, “Human Rights Violations Committed by Military Junta in Karenni State in 2024” was based on data gathered by the IEC and the Karenni Human Rights Group (KnHRG). The data showed that the junta has carried out human rights violations across Karenni State, including airstrikes, drone bombings, and shelling of civilian areas far from battlefields. As a result, people…

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Trump Order Suspends Healthcare in Refugee Camps

The IRC is the main healthcare provider in the refugee camps housing refugees from Myanmar in Thailand on the border with Myanmar. The IRC gets about half of its funding from the US government and part of its work is to help resettle refugees in the US. Donald Trump who promised to reduce immigration if elected, has ordered a 90-day…

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Trump Funding Pause Severely Disrupts Aid to Border Areas

Several US Government and USAID backed organisations and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) providing education, healthcare, and aid to Myanmar refugees sheltering in the areas of Thailand bordering Myanmar have been forced to suspend operations due to Trump’s order to pause aid funding. A staff member of an NGO based in Mae Sot in Thailand’s Tak Province said: “All organisations relying on…

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IPCM Calls for Accountability for Persecution of Journalists

It also called for the perpetrators of such acts to be held accountable. Nan Paw Gay, the chairperson of the IPCM and Chief Editor of KIC said: “The primary perpetrators are aligned with the junta, and they have carried out arbitrary arrests, imprisonments, torture, and killings targeting journalists during the ongoing conflict. We demand they be punished and prosecuted as…

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NUG Cybercrime Statement Supported by KNU

The NUG statement said that “the Myanmar military, along with its Border Guard Forces, militias and its allies, is directly involved in providing security for and facilitating” cyber-scam centres and even “actively partnering with the criminals involved.” It said: “We are determined to prevent Myanmar from becoming the epicenter of cyber and other crimes that not only exacerbate local conflicts…

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Junta Taking Aid Meant for IDPs in Southern Shan State

They have been confiscating aid meant for IDPs in southern Shan State under various pretexts, such as claiming they are collecting taxes. They have also been claiming that fees have to be paid to allow the aid through and pressuring the aid organisations to let them distribute the aid, according to the chairman of the Pa-O Youth Organisation (PYO), Khun…

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Junta Abducting People for Conscription in Bilin Town, Mon State

According to research by the Blood Money Campaign – Action Network (BMC), markets, donation events, festivals, and religious ceremonies, which are often crowded with people, as well as healthcare facilities and even schools, are intentionally targeted by the junta’s airstrikes. From early 2021 to November 2024, the junta carried out approximately 4,020 airstrikes nationwide, resulting in around 2,250 deaths and…

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Junta Soldiers Burgling Houses in Kawkareik Town

Violent clashes outside Kawkareik Town that started on 1 December 2023 have forced nearly all of the town’s inhabitants to flee. By October 2024 most of the town’s inhabitants had fled. Many of them are still unable to return and whilst they are away their homes are being broken into by junta soldiers and civilians who support them. A Kawkareik…

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