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Two days later, on 23 October, over 80 people were killed by an airstrike in Hpakant Township, Northern Myanmar, during an anniversary celebration for the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO). At least 80 civilians were killed, making it the single deadliest attack on civilians since the start of the renewed civil war. [ 209 ]
The Rohingya genocide is a series of ongoing persecutions and killings of the Muslim Rohingya people by the military of Myanmar.The genocide has consisted of two phases [3] [4] to date: the first was a military crackdown that occurred from October 2016 to January 2017, and the second has been occurring since August 2017. [5]
A bomb exploded during a Thingyan festival in Mandalay, injuring 12 people. No group claimed responsibility, although some PDF groups and Burmese artists warned people not to celebrate at SAC-sponsored festivals. [366] Simultaneously, the PDF launched 107mm rockets at the Defence Services Academy to assassinate Min Aung Hlaing. However, he ...
The coup has since escalated into a Myanmar civil war (2021–present) between the Armed Forces, and the NUG's People's Defence Force and ethnic armed organisations (EAOs), resulting in thousands of military and civilian casualties, and the displacement of an additional 1.7 million people as of November 2022.
In 2017, the military carried out a crackdown on Rohingya people in Rakhine State; in 2022, the US Secretary of State determined that members of the Burmese military had committed genocide and crimes against humanity against the Rohingya people. [4] An estimated 1.6 million Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh, Thailand and India; by the end of ...
[7] [22] The Rohingyas have lived in Myanmar for generations and the Bangladesh government has called on Myanmar to take them back. [23] They are denied citizenship in Myanmar and have been described as the world's most persecuted minority. [24] [25] Myanmar has denied persecuting the Rohingyas. [26] Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh in October 2017
The Myanmar Police Force, formally known as The People's Police Force (Burmese: ပြည်သူ့ရဲတပ်ဖွဲ့; MLCTS: Pyi Thu Yae Tup Pwe), was established in 1964 as independent department under the Ministry of Home Affairs. It was reorganised on 1 October 1995 and informally become part of the Tatmadaw.
Myanmar, [d] officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar [e] and also rendered as Burma (the official English form until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia.It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. [18]