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On 11 April 2023, the Myanmar Air Force massacred at least 165 people [1] in the village of Pazigyi, Kantbalu Township, which is located 92 miles (148 km) west of Mandalay, Myanmar's second largest city. The air force used fighter jets and helicopters to attack a large crowd of people gathering for the opening of a local office of an opposition ...
Over 1,000 refugees flee into Thailand after junta planes bomb the town following its capture. [20] 16 April – The junta announces that deposed State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and president Win Myint have been transferred to house arrest due to a heat wave. [21] 22 April – Vice President Henry Van Thio resigns due to unspecified health ...
Bombings inside or in the vicinity of Yangon have occurred on numerous occasions in the past. In April 2006, five bombs detonated in the centre of the city, no casualties were reported. In September 2008, a bomb exploded outside the Yangon City Hall killing 7 people and injured several others. [citation needed]
Myanmar’s military government and its opponents traded accusations over a bomb that exploded Tuesday in the middle of the country’s largest city, Yangon, killing one and wounding nine others.
The police detained eight suspects following bomb blasts. A detainee reportedly served in the past in Karen National Union, [5] a rebel group that signed a cease-fire with the government. [4] The police identified one detained bombing suspect manages a mining project in Karen State. A group of Karen businessmen allegedly offered him a permit ...
Maung Maung writes from inside Myanmar about how he left his profession, his life, everything to escape the claws of the junta after they ousted Aung San Suu Kyi
A unit of the Chinese People's Liberation Army is also scheduled to organise live-fire exercises on the Chinese side of the China-Myanmar border from Aug. 27-29, according to a separate statement ...
The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) is an insurgent group in Myanmar that was formerly part of the Communist Party of Burma. It became the first of a dozen armed factions to sign a bilateral ceasefire agreement with the then-ruling military junta after its broke apart from the communists in 1989. [ 6 ]