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Airstrike Hits School, Kills Four in Kawkareik Township

The airstrike hit a house that the school was being run in at 2:00 pm on 9 June and killed a teacher, two children and the owner of the house, according to a witness from the village. He said to KIC: “The village doesn’t have a junta-run school, so the community was really worried the children would miss out on…

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Mae La Camp Food Poisoning Hospitalises Three Refugees

According to officials at Mae La Camp, their preliminary findings indicate that the food poisoning was caused by snacks ordered online and then sold by shops in the camp. The food poisoning victims ranged in age from a seven-month-old baby to a 30-year-old, with some of the affected children experiencing severe symptoms, according to Saw Sunday, the secretary of the…

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Unregistered Vehicle Owners Paying Huge Bribes in Mon State

Since 1 June 2025, the junta authorities, under orders from the Illegal Trade Eradication Steering Committee, have been cracking down on unregistered vehicles in several states and regions, including Mon State. This followed an order made by coup leader Min Aung Hlaing to crack down on unregistered vehicles made at a meeting in Naypyidaw on 20 May. Junta officials have…

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Junta Killings and Arrests on Karen State Road

The junta holds the road but Thandaunggyi Township and the area of Bago Region between the border with Karen State and Taungoo Town is currently under the mixed control of the junta and the Karen National Union’s (KNU) Brigade 2. Since 1 May 2025, KNU Brigade 2 has banned all travel on the road between the towns of Leiktho and…

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Junta Arrests and Kills Residents Returning to Kyondoe Town

Junta troops targeted the returning residents in late May. Five to ten of them have been arrested and at least one, Saw Myo Htwe Aung, has been murdered by the junta whilst in custody, according to residents of Kyondoe Town. On 28 May 2025, Saw Myo Htwe Aung, also known as Ko Pyoo, a young resident of Kyondoe Town, was…

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Four Students Injured in Airstrike on Kawkareik Township

The junta aircraft dropped two bombs, one onto a football field next to the Kwileisu Village School student dormitory and one on the village monastery compound. Later that evening, a village resident said to KIC: “The aircraft made two bombing runs and dropped two bombs. One of them was a cluster type with many small explosives inside, though I can’t…

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Junta Airstrike on Wedding Kills 10

At around 9:00 am on 25 May, a junta aircraft dropped the bomb on a house where the wedding ceremony was taking place in the Karen National Union (KNU) administered Kyungyi Village. The dead included the bride and two children aged four and six. Some of the 20 people injured in the attack are in a serious condition. A resident…

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Kyaikto Township IDPS Need Food

They have fled from 36 other villages across five village tracts in Kyaikto Township since 14 May 2025, when hundreds of junta troops in the area launched an offensive supported by heavy artillery. According to the Karen National Union (KNU) Thaton District Administration, currently there are 17,602 IDPs sheltering in Kyaikto Township who have fled from other more dangerous areas…

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Junta Orders Schools to Re-Open in Kyondoe Township, Karen State

The junta ordered the schools to re-open despite almost daily artillery fire, airstrikes, and drone attacks in Kyondoe Township, which is a contested area under the mixed control of a resistance coalition and the junta, which still controls most of Kyondoe Town, the township administrative centre. This means that some schools in the township are administered by the resistance coalition,…

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BNI Ethnic Media Conference Discusses Media Law

At the conference, held under the theme ‘Survival of Independent Media in Times of Crisis,’ participants reviewed and proposed amendments to recommendations for drafting media laws based on grassroots federalism that have been proposed by BNI, according to a 10 May BNI statement. Nan Paw Gay, A BNI board member said: “Just like we have state and regional-level governments, we…

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