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The statement (in Burmese) revealed that since the February 2021 coup seven journalists have been killed in Myanmar. It named them as: freelance reporters Ko Lin Lin Tun, Phoe Thiha (aka Myat Thu Tun) and Htet Myat Thu; freelance photojournalist Ko Soe Naing; the editor of the Federal journal, Sai Kay (aka Sai Win Aung); the editor-in-chief and founder of…

During April 2025, junta and resistance forces have been fighting in Kunseik Village and the surrounding areas in Shwegyin Township, also in Bago Region, but across the Sittwe River from Waw Township, Artillery has also been fired between the two townships. Explaining why they advised villagers to flee, a spokesperson for Waw PDF said: “Given the current military situation, villages…

Following the 28 March 7.7 magnitude earthquake that had its epicentre a few miles west of Mandalay City, the junta declared a unilateral ceasefire to run from 2 to 22 April. On the final day of that ceasefire, 22 April, the junta announced that the ceasefire would be extended to 30 April. On 23 April 2025, the New Mon State…

The KWO has evolved into a powerful force for change, with its membership now exceeding 70,000 women. In 2023 alone, more than 140,582 women, men, and children were counted as direct beneficiaries of their programs. Operating across seven Karen National Union (KNU) Districts inside Burma and seven refugee camps along the Thai-Burma border, the organization has built an impressive infrastructure…

Since the beginning of April 2025, junta-appointed administrative officials from Hpa-An City’s Ward 4 have been demanding that young women pay 5,000 MMK and young men pay 30,000 MMK to a ‘conscription fund’ to ensure they will not be conscripted. A young woman from Hpa-An’s Ward 4 said to KIC: “Four ward administration officials came to our house. We thought…

On 16 April, the final day of the traditional Myanmar Thingyan Water Festival that celebrates the beginning of the new year from 13 to 16 April, junta airstrikes hit seven villages in Kawakareik Township, Karen State. On the morning of 16 April airstrikes hit the Kawkareik Township villages of Laytaing, Inngyi and Tharyakone. No casualties were reported, but Aungchanthar Monastery…

On 7 April 2025, the KNU and junta troops fought in Mawdaung Town, which is on the border with Thailand. After the fighting had subsided in the town a junta drone dropped the suspected chemical weapon onto KNU soldiers in Theinkhun Village on the outskirts of Mawdaung Town, according to Padoh Saw Eh Nar, the KNU Secretary for the districts…

In mid-March 2025, around 900 junta troops, in three columns, entered and stationed themselves in Yebyu Town to the east of the Dawei SEZ project and Launglon Town to the south of the SEZ. Comrade Shadow, a spokesperson for Launglon Township People’s Defence Force (Launglon PDF) said: “The junta sent about 900 troops to the two towns, but around 100…

Naw Say War, a 58-year-old teacher, set up the school six years ago after she first went to Kyu Kho Village and saw that there was no school there. Seven years ago, whilst travelling through Hpapun District, an area mainly controlled by the Karen National Union (KNU), Naw Say War came across Kyu Kho, a small village made up of…

The junta’s battalion headquarters in Kawkareik Township, mobile artillery battalions and drones have been shelling the villages since 2 April, the day the junta’s claimed ceasefire began, according to an officer of the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) who spoke to KIC. He said: “The junta has been bombarding villages north and south of Kawkareik Township almost every day since…