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17 November - Nearly 6000 prisoners are freed in a mass amnesty by the military junta. Free prisoners include a former British envoy Vicky Bowman, Australian economic adivsor Sean Turnell and Japanese reporter Toru Kubota. Human Rights groups say the junta is engaging in hostage tactics to negotiate with foreign powers.
According to a special report from Radio Free Asia, SAC soldiers following a raid in Kachin state's Se Zin village in August 2022, set fire to more than 400 homes with at least 15 people killed on the spot, detained some 400 people in and around Se Zin, and about 100 of them have been killed (including extrajudicial massacre) by security forces ...
4 January – The junta announces the pardon of 9,652 prisoners, including 114 foreigners, to mark the country's independence day. [1]5 January – Operation 1027: Battle of Laukkai: The MNDAA gain full control of Laukkai, capital of the Kokang Self-Administered Zone following the mass surrender of thousands of Tatmadaw forces, officials and their families within the city.
Myanmar’s military government has launched a major effort to block free communication on the Internet, shutting off access to virtual private networks, or VPNs, which can be used to circumvent ...
Win Ko Ko Latt (Burmese: ဝင်းကိုကိုလတ်; born 16 June 1982), also known as Thakin Gyi (Burmese: သခင်ကြီး), is a Burmese ultranationalist, Buddhist nationalist, legal advisor, writer, and leader of the anti-Rohingya movement in Myanmar.
11 April - At least 100 people are killed in an airstrike by the Burmese junta in the village of Pazigyi (Kanbalu Township) in Sagaing region, in the third major civilian attack since the junta's offensive in Sagaing began in February.
The junta restricts the private sale of oxygen tanks to prevent healthcare workers participating in civil disobedience from providing free care to other civilians. [33] Protesting doctors are arrested by the junta after being lured out of hiding to treat "patients".
Hannah Kobayashi's family says she was "found safe" on Wednesday, Dec. 11, about a month after she walked into Mexico and vanished in what police have called a voluntary disappearance that made ...