Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
October 2023 - Myanmar Special Weapons News
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- Junta troops attack villages along British-era Myanmar railway Radio Free Asia 27 Oct 2023 -- Junta troops sent to repair part of a colonial British-era railway in northern Myanmar's Sagaing region have burned down some 800 houses in two townships since mid-August, forcing around 10,000 people to flee for their safety, residents and local armed groups say.
- Ethnic alliance launches offensive on junta in eastern Myanmar Radio Free Asia 27 Oct 2023 -- An alliance of three ethnic armies opened an offensive against Myanmar's military regime on Friday, launching attacks on outposts in seven different locations in Shan state, in the east, including the headquarters of the junta's Northeastern Command.
- Junta troops capture 15 Myanmar villagers to use as human shields Radio Free Asia 27 Oct 2023 -- Junta troops arrested 15 people and displaced more than 10,000 during raids in northern Myanmar, residents told Radio Free Asia on Friday.
- As Chinese money flows in, Myanmar garment factory conditions worsen Radio Free Asia 26 Oct 2023 -- When a deadline loomed at the Chinese-run Shin Han garment factory in Yangon, management ordered workers to complete shifts that lasted more than 12 hours, from early in the morning until 9 at night. Two workers with health problems tried to make it through their shift, but when they asked to take a break, they were fired.
- Hague-based UN court extends deadlines in Rohingya genocide case Radio Free Asia 25 Oct 2023 -- The International Court of Justice has extended two deadlines for written arguments in a complaint brought by the West African nation of Gambia alleging that Myanmar's military carried out genocide against minority Rohingya Muslims.
- Myanmar victims file war crimes complaint in Philippines court Radio Free Asia 25 Oct 2023 -- Five Myanmar nationals on Wednesday asked the Philippines' Department of Justice to open a war crimes investigation into 10 members of the Burmese junta for a range of alleged atrocities, including the killing of civilians, mutilation of bodies and torching hundreds of homes and churches.
- Pilot opposition suggests no meaningful census for Myanmar poll Radio Free Asia 24 Oct 2023 -- Public opposition to a pilot census program conducted by Myanmar's junta this month has been so strong that the likelihood of a meaningful survey ahead of planned elections is extremely slim, according to experts.
- Myanmar junta gives 6 men life sentences under martial law Radio Free Asia 24 Oct 2023 -- Myanmar's junta gave life sentences to six men, lawyers told Radio Free Asia on Tuesday.
- At least 56 women killed in junta attacks in three months Radio Free Asia 23 Oct 2023 -- Junta troops killed at least 56 women in Myanmar during the three months ending September, according to the Burma Women's Union, or BWU, amid a scorched earth offensive that has left the country's most vulnerable victims of the military's worst atrocities.
- Junta sentences 7 men to death in Myanmar's Ayeyarwady region Radio Free Asia 23 Oct 2023 -- Myanmar's military regime sentenced seven men in Ayeyarwady region to death, Pyapon township residents told Radio Free Asia over the weekend. Pyapon District Court issued the sentences on Friday, ordering another seven men to spend up to 55 years in prison in the country's southern delta.
- Myanmar opposition drive to crimp junta revenue is far from quixotic Radio Free Asia 22 Oct 2023 -- Thirty months into Myanmar's civil war, the military continues to lose ground, both on the battlefield, where it has increased their targeting of civilians, and in their management of the economy, which continues to underperform.
- Junta hits political prisoners with package restrictions, transfers Radio Free Asia 20 Oct 2023 -- Junta policies that restrict packages to jailed inmates and permit prisoners to be transferred to remote facilities without notifying relatives are negatively impacting the health of political prisoners in Myanmar, their family members told RFA Burmese on Friday.
- Junta committed 22 massacres since coup, research group finds Radio Free Asia 20 Oct 2023 -- Junta troops have carried out 22 massacres across Myanmar since the February 2021 military coup, according to an independent research group based in Yangon.
- Junta razes village in northern Myanmar, opens fire on residents Radio Free Asia 20 Oct 2023 -- A man died and eight were injured when troops laid landmines in their village in Sagaing region after raiding it and burning the houses to the ground, locals said Friday.
- Junta recruits teen soldiers in Myanmar's delta Radio Free Asia 18 Oct 2023 -- The junta is increasing quotas this week for villagers to undergo military training in Ayeyarwaddy division, locals told Radio Free Asia. In some villages in Pathein township, six people per village must now enroll.
- Myanmar's Sagaing region sees a resurgence of anti-junta protests Radio Free Asia 17 Oct 2023 -- Anti-junta protesters have returned to the streets of Myanmar's Sagaing region, despite intense crackdowns and raids by military forces, organizers of the demonstrations said.
- Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh appeal to donors for more food aid Radio Free Asia 17 Oct 2023 -- Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh pleaded with a visiting U.S. State Department official Tuesday to help boost food aid to them, while the U.N. refugee agency's chief urged donor countries to reverse dwindling humanitarian assistance to the stateless Rohingya.
- UK announces further assistance for Rohingya people in Bangladesh UK FCDO 17 Oct 2023 -- UK Minister for the Indo-Pacific, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, has announced a further £4.5 million in humanitarian support at a UNHCR conference on Rohingya refugees.
- Myanmar junta enlists ethnic militias in fight for Kachin state Radio Free Asia 16 Oct 2023 -- Myanmar's junta is beefing up its proxy forces in Kachin state, pitting ethnic minority fighters against one another to counter staunch resistance in the northern region, according to military experts.
- Five-day raid continues as 45,000 flee Myanmar's Sagaing region Radio Free Asia 16 Oct 2023 -- One local was killed and nearly 45,000 people were displaced during military raids in Myanmar's northern Sagaing region, local residents told Radio Free Asia on Monday.
- Bago residents clean up after flooding in central Myanmar Radio Free Asia 14 Oct 2023 -- Residents of Bago city in central Myanmar have begun cleaning up waterlogged streets, apartment buildings and stores following floods from heavy rain on Sunday.
- Myanmar junta arrested more than 1,300 people for online criticism Radio Free Asia 13 Oct 2023 -- Myanmar's junta arrested more than 1,300 people over the past 20 months because they criticized it online, an independent data organization reported, highlighting the military rulers' intolerance of dissent and the freedom of expression.
- Myanmar officials drain dam without warning, flood Mandalay villages Radio Free Asia 13 Oct 2023 -- More than 30,000 residents were forced to leave their homes and belongings behind in central Myanmar's Mandalay region after their villages were unexpectedly flooded, locals and relief workers said Friday.
- Child killed, 8 civilians injured in shell attack in Myanmar's Bago Radio Free Asia 12 Oct 2023 -- One child was killed and several others were injured after a series of attacks throughout Bago division's Nyaunglebin district, according to the Karen National Union. The ethnic armed group controlling the area reported that two children are among the eight people hurt by heavy artillery fired by junta troops.
- Myanmar military court sentences 2 generals to 20 years in prison Radio Free Asia 11 Oct 2023 -- A military court in Myanmar on Wednesday sentenced two high-ranking generals - including a trusted confidant of junta chief Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing - to 20 years in prison for accepting bribes, illegally possessing foreign currencies and violating military regulations.
- Junta training civilian militias for security patrols in Bago region Radio Free Asia 10 Oct 2023 -- The military junta is recruiting civilians for militia training across central Myanmar's Bago region, where they plan to use the trainees for security patrols and to transport injured troops from the frontline, local residents said.
- Burma Regime Attack in Kachin State US Dept. of State 10 Oct 2023
- More Than Two-Dozen People Killed in Attack on Refugee Camp in Northern Myanmar VOA 10 Oct 2023 -- At least 29 people are dead after an artillery strike on a camp housing internally displaced persons in northern Myanmar near the Chinese border, according to sources in the region.
- Over 13,000 flood victims relocated in Myanmar's Bago region Radio Free Asia 09 Oct 2023 -- Flooding in Myanmar has caused chaos across five regions, according to junta authorities, with 13,000 people in Bago region alone being relocated due to heavy rain.
- Digital Currency: Beacon of Hope in Fight Against Myanmar Junta VOA 09 Oct 2023 -- "Digital currencies have played a pivotal role in backing Myanmar's Spring Revolution," following a military takeover of the government in February 2021, said NUG Deputy Minister of Planning, Finance and Investment Min Zayar Oo, in a statement to VOA.
- Myanmar's top court declines to hear jailed Suu Kyi's appeals Press TV 08 Oct 2023 -- Myanmar's Supreme Court on Friday rejected appeals by Aung San Suu Kyi's lawyers to overturn her conviction in some corruption cases brought against the ousted leader by the military regime.
- Death toll for anti-junta fighters surges in past two months Radio Free Asia 06 Oct 2023 -- The death toll of anti-junta fighters has spiked over the past two months, surpassing 100 in August and September together, according to Burma News International's Myanmar Peace Monitor, which compiles data on military conflict in the country.
- Body found in Myanmar's Pale township as junta continues on warpath Radio Free Asia 06 Oct 2023 -- Myanmar's junta killed a man as a convoy of troops moving through Sagaing region continued to raid villages and abduct residents, locals told Radio Free Asia Friday.
- Myanmar Supreme Court rejects Suu Kyi appeals of six graft cases Radio Free Asia 06 Oct 2023 -- The Myanmar junta's high court on Friday rejected appeals of all six corruption convictions handed to former State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi.
- Deputy Defence Minister Colonel General Aleksandr Fomin meets with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Myanmar to Russia U Lwin Oo Russia MoD 05 Oct 2023 -- The Deputy Head of the Russian Defence Ministry congratulated U Lwin Oo on his appointment as Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and thanked him for his substantial contribution to the development of bilateral military and military-technical cooperation during his leadership of the Myanmar diplomatic mission in Moscow.
- Thousands flee Sagaing region townships after Myanmar junta raids Radio Free Asia 05 Oct 2023 -- Almost 5,000 people have fled their homes after two days of raids on villages in Sagaing region's Salingyi township, locals told RFA on Thursday.
- Kachin rebels press villagers to move to make way for jade mining Radio Free Asia 05 Oct 2023 -- Ethnic Kachin rebels are pressuring more than 600 people to move out of a village so they can take over gold and jade mining in the area to fund their fight against Myanmar's ruling junta, residents told Radio Free Asia.
- Junta enlists China in changing Myanmar IDs to biometric smart cards Radio Free Asia 05 Oct 2023 -- Myanmar's junta is updating the country's antiquated paper identification system with smart electronic cards and asking China - no stranger to keeping tabs on its citizens - for technical assistance.
- Indonesian arms makers deny selling weapons to Burmese military Radio Free Asia 04 Oct 2023 -- Indonesia's state-owned defense holdings company on Wednesday denied allegations by human rights activists that its units had sold weapons to Myanmar's military in violation of bans on arms supplies to the junta-ruled country.
- Myanmar No. 2 in world for violations of internet freedom: report Radio Free Asia 04 Oct 2023 -- Byu Har went too far with his online criticism of Myanmar's ruling military junta in May and paid a heavy price.
- Myanmar company director and regional officials 'arrested in China' Radio Free Asia 04 Oct 2023 -- Eleven businessmen from Myanmar's Shan state were reportedly arrested while visiting China's Yunnan province over the weekend, according to traders based on the border.
- Myanmar guerrilla group says it shot junta conspirator in Yangon Radio Free Asia 03 Oct 2023 -- A man accused of working with Myanmar's ruling junta has been shot in the head in central Yangon, a local guerrilla group said.
- Conflict in Myanmar's Shan state drives 1,000 civilians into China Radio Free Asia 03 Oct 2023 -- Fighting between junta troops and the ethnic Ta'ang National Liberation Army, or TNLA, has driven more than 1,000 people from northeast Myanmar's Shan state across the border with China to seek shelter, according to residents.
- Myanmar junta seeks to wipe out headquarters of Kachin rebel group Radio Free Asia 02 Oct 2023 -- The Myanmar junta is going all out with its air and ground forces to wipe out the headquarters of ethnic Kachin rebels in northern Kachin state, eliminating a lifeline of support for anti-regime militias in neighboring Sagaing region, political and military analysts said.
- Complaint targets 'illegal' Indonesian arms sales to Burma Radio Free Asia 02 Oct 2023 -- Three Indonesian state-owned weapons manufacturers broke the law by selling arms to Myanmar's military, a former Indonesia attorney general and activists alleged in a complaint filed Monday with the National Commission on Human Rights.
- Airstrikes and shelling killed 44 civilians in Myanmar in September Radio Free Asia 02 Oct 2023 -- Casualties continue to mount in Myanmar as junta forces make increasing use of airstrikes and heavy artillery bombardments on civilian targets.
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