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Lynn Zay picks up a sack of rice and stacks it on top of eight others on his small Honda motorcycle. The nine bags of rice are to be delivered to a family of three in need of a helping hand. The rice and other basic foodstuff – oil, dried fish, noodles, beans – are donations for exiled Myanmar journalists…

Thailand set up refugee camps for them on the border with Myanmar. Now there are nine refugee camps along the border in Thailand: Mae La, Umpiem Mai, Nupo, Mae Ra Ma Luang, Mae La Oon, Tham Hin, Ban Don Yang, and Karenni Refugee Camps 1 and 2. The largest of those camps, Mae La, across from Karen State, was established…

On 11 April 2024, the junta launched its Operation Aung Zeya to take back control of AH1, between Myawaddy Town on the border with Thailand and Kawkareik Town, from a Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) led resistance coalition. But after suffering many casualties and captured soldiers the junta decided to abandon Operation Aung Zeya at the beginning of March 2025…

District health officer Padoh Naw El Sel Toe said to KIC: “There is currently a shortage of antimalarial drugs and medical equipment in Myeik and Dawei districts. Since USAID funding ended, the supply of antimalarial drugs has been cut off. The situation is challenging, and we are exploring alternative solutions. She explained that in Myeik and Dawei districts respiratory diseases…

The junta-run township general administration office issued summonses on 5 March for young men of conscription age in Hlaingbwe Township to come and fill out registration forms. The summonses were sent to their homes and clearly included the recipient’s name, parents’ names, National Identity Card (NIC) number, and home address. Despite the administration claiming that registration will not automatically lead…

The call was made in a statement issued by the junta-aligned Karen BGF on 1 March 2025. It claimed that Thailand’s cutting of electricity and fuel supplies has hindered efforts to rescue foreign workers from telecom scam compounds in Myawaddy Township, Karen State, whilst also causing severe humanitarian hardships that have significantly disrupted the daily lives of local communities in…

The burnings happened during ongoing fighting in Kawkareik Township. The junta started attacking the villages after Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA)-led resistance forces encircled and launched an attack on junta troops stationed at the Shwe Kyet Min monastery compound near Tatanku Village on the outskirts of Kawkareik Town, also on 3 March. A resistance source said to KIC: “An estimated…

The comments were made by Daw Tin Tin Nyo, the Managing Director of BNI-MPM, during the 28 February 2025 online launch to the media of a special report by BNI-MPM titled ‘The Feasibility of Holding a New Election and the Trajectory of the Revolution’. The report points out that every six months since the coup the junta has repeatedly extended…

During the last week of February, soldiers stationed at a junta camp near Kalay Pho Kalo Village clashed with the KNU’s armed wing, the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA)-led resistance coalition. In response, the junta launched airstrikes on the area—two on February 25 and another on February 27. Villagers from Kalay Pho Kalo evacuated when the clashes erupted, while residents…

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…