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The EU said it was sanctioning the BGF leaders and CLM for their involvement in and financial gains from the activities of scam compounds in Myawaddy Township along Thailand-Myanmar border, particularly in Shwe Kokko, a hub for transnational crime—including online fraud, drug and human trafficking—and widespread human rights violations, such as forced labor and torture. The EU also said that…

If no inhabitants of Ward 3 volunteer to be conscripted the authorities said they would find others to join the army in their stead but, in that case, all Ward 3 residents would have to pay a fee for this to be done. In October, junta-appointed ward administrators distributed pamphlets to households in Ward 3 where men between the ages…

A junta column of over 100 soldiers entered Thayetchaung Township on 25 October and targeted the villages of Tharyathnakhwa, Panpyin, and Meneioe. A resident said to Karen Information Center (KIC): “The junta has been conducting offensives since 25 October. Before launching their attacks, they shelled the area with heavy artillery to clear the way. Villages in Thayetchaung Township are frequently…

The KNLA and its allies first launched an offensive against the junta military base in Ahnankwin Village, which is on the Payathonzu to Thanbyuzayat road, in the second week of August 2024. Since 13 October, the junta has been conducting airstrikes on Ahnankwin Village, and other nearby villages in Kyainseikgyi Township in response to intensified attacks by the KNLA and…

At about 10:00 am on 22 October, four junta kamikaze drones hit the KNLA headquarters located in the Karen National Union’s (KNU) Brigade 7 area, which roughly corresponds to the Myanmar township of Hpa-An. One KNLA member was injured and a building was damaged in the attack. Then, junta drones attacked KNLA security checkpoints in Hlaingbwe Township. Details of that…

The approximately 80 junta troops who had been manning the outposts in Baledo Village, just south of Myawaddy Town in Thaybawboe Region, started fleeing on 19 October and had all left by 20 October, before the KNLA and its allies even engaged with them, according to a member of Cobra Column, one of the groups that took control of the…

An officer from Cobra Column, part of the KNLA-led coalition, said that the coalition forces finally took the Myawaddy Township base at around 4:00 am, after four months of trying. He said: “We’ve been fighting to capture that base for about four months. The enemy used drones and airstrikes to defend it, but now they can’t hold out any longer…

The junta started its offensive at 8:00 am on 14 October by taking control of land from the resistance, around the Union Highway just outside Meelaungchaung Village. A spokesperson for Palaw People’s Defence Force (PDF) said: “Up until now, they [the junta troops] haven’t been able to advance. We have occupied the villages along the Union Highway. They said they…

Bo Bi’s militia was previously under the military-aligned Democratic Karen Buddhist Army – Brigade 5 but it split away from them in 2016. Initially they sought refuge in the Khyin Phawdawmu Monastery and as a result also became known as the Phawdawmu Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (Phawdawmu DKBA). A local said to the Karen Information Center (KIC): “There are many…

The junta-organised census, running from 1 to 15 October 2024, has no question about ethnicity, unlike the previous censuses in 1974, 1983 and 2014. But in this year’s census there is a question that asks what primary language respondents use at home. Though no figures relating to ethnicity were released after the 2014 census, despite there being a question about…