September 2024 - Myanmar Special Weapons News

Myanmar guerrillas attack junta military headquarters in Mandalay Radio Free Asia 30 Sep 2024 -- Pro-democracy insurgents battling Myanmar's junta fired rockets at the military headquarters in the city of Mandalay, the group said on Monday, the latest in a series of strikes at the heart of the military's command structure.
Indian border fence cutting off crucial supply route to Myanmar's Sagaing region Radio Free Asia 28 Sep 2024 -- India is erecting a fence along its border with Myanmar, which residents of Myanmar's Sagaing region say is cutting off trade routes and driving up the price of goods.
Myanmar junta invites insurgents, 'terrorists' to join election Radio Free Asia 27 Sep 2024 -- Myanmar's junta has called on its insurgent enemies to abandon their "terrorist way" and join a planned election, but a parallel civilian government spearheading opposition to military rule dismissed the offer as a trick by the junta to burnish its international image.
Myanmar military urges armed groups to stop fighting, join elections VOA 27 Sep 2024 -- Myanmar's military has called on ethnic armed groups and anti-junta resistance forces to end their armed struggle and participate in proposed national elections. While this call to cease fighting was quickly rejected by opposition forces, it marked a significant development in Myanmar's three-year civil war.
Myanmar junta airstrike kills civilians sheltering in rebel territory Radio Free Asia 26 Sep 2024 -- Myanmar junta jets bombed a shelter for displaced people in a rebel-held town in Rakhine state on Thursday killing 14 civilians and wounding 25, an insurgent force official told Radio Free Asia.
Junta offensive underway to recapture towns in northern Shan state Radio Free Asia 25 Sep 2024 -- Myanmar's junta is shifting troops from southern to northern Shan state in a bid to recapture several towns it lost to in an offensive launched by an alliance of ethnic armies last year, according to residents and rebel officials.
Myanmar junta bombs rebels despite peace gesture Radio Free Asia 24 Sep 2024 -- Myanmar's junta attacked a powerful insurgent group on Tuesday, just days after the rebels said they would stop fighting and end cooperation with a shadow civilian government opposing military rule.
UN Human Rights Council 57: Interactive Dialogue on Myanmar UK FCDO 24 Sep 2024 -- Interactive Dialogue with the High Commissioner for Human Rights on Myanmar. Delivered by the UK's Human Rights Ambassador, Eleanor Sanders.
China pressures Myanmar ethnic groups to cut ties from forces perceived as close to US VOA 24 Sep 2024 -- China, which has long influenced Myanmar's ethnic armed groups, is pressuring the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army, or MNDAA — part of the Three Brotherhood Alliance that includes the Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and the Arakan Army (AA) — to avoid aligning with other opposition forces that China perceives as Western-backed, experts say.
Myanmar junta attacks kill 20 in Mandalay region Radio Free Asia 23 Sep 2024 -- Myanmar's military has killed 20 people, including seven members of a family, in attacks in the central Mandalay region as forces fighting the junta press towards Myanmar's second largest city, residents and opposition activists told Radio Free Asia.
Rights group says Myanmar military to execute activists VOA 21 Sep 2024 -- A prominent Southeast Asian rights group said Friday that Myanmar's ruling State Administration Council reportedly intends to execute five democracy activists Tuesday following their May 2023 conviction and sentencing for alleged involvement in a deadly 2021 shooting on a train in Yangon.
Myanmar students in Thailand must renew passports at home, junta says Radio Free Asia 20 Sep 2024 -- Myanmar nationals studying in Thailand on short-term education visas will no longer be able to renew their passports at their embassy in Bangkok or consulate in Chiang Mai, and must return home to do so, the junta announced Friday.
Junta targeting rebel-held areas in northern Myanmar with airstrikes and artillery Radio Free Asia 19 Sep 2024 -- Myanmar's junta is conducting regular airstrikes and artillery attacks on towns in northern Shan state that are firmly under rebel control in a resurgence of violence in the area, residents said Thursday.
Myanmar guerrillas arrested in bid to attack air base, group says Radio Free Asia 19 Sep 2024 -- Myanmar junta authorities arrested two members of an urban guerrilla group planning to attack one of the military's largest air bases, from where the air force launches attacks on civilians, the rebel group said.
Myanmar junta blocks aid to thousands impacted by Typhoon Yagi Radio Free Asia 19 Sep 2024 -- More than 30,000 people are in urgent need of aid in eastern Myanmar's Kayah and neighboring Shan states after being inundated by Asia's worst storm of the year, but volunteers say the country's junta is blocking the delivery of relief items and donations.
Airbus investing in Chinese firm that supplies Myanmar military: report VOA 19 Sep 2024 -- A new report from Burmese activist groups is calling on French-based airline manufacturer Airbus to use its influence with Aviation Industry Corporation of China, or AVIC, to pressure the Chinese firm to end its arms sales to the Myanmar junta.
Myanmar rebels kill 12 women from pro-military village: report Radio Free Asia 18 Sep 2024 -- Rebel forces in central Myanmar ambushed a vehicle near a junta stronghold killing 12 women on their way to work in nearby fields, military-controlled media reported on Wednesday.
UN report describes torture and death of hundreds in custody since Myanmar coup Radio Free Asia 18 Sep 2024 -- At least 1,853 people have died in military custody, including 88 children and 125 women, since Myanmar's military coup - many after being tortured - according to a new U.N. report on the situation of human rights in the country.
WFP to launch Myanmar flood response to people affected by typhoon Yagi WFP 18 Sep 2024 -- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is gearing up to launch a rapid flood response this week in Myanmar to provide emergency food assistance to people in areas submerged by floods following the passage of Super Typhoon Yagi over the past few days. This response is a major scale-up in WFP flood relief efforts ongoing since July.
Over 5,000 civilians killed since Myanmar military coup UN News 17 Sep 2024 -- The UN human rights office, OHCHR, issued its latest report on Myanmar on Tuesday, detailing a range of serious violations that continue to underscore the deepening crisis and lack of rule of law throughout the country.
Operation Sadbhav: India sends 53 tonnes of emergency flood relief assistance worth US$ 1 million to the People's Republic of Myanmar India MEA 17 Sep 2024 -- The Government of India has launched Operation Sadbhav for extending emergency humanitarian assistance in the wake of the floods caused by Typhoon Yagi.
Myanmar's flood death toll rises to 226 with scores missing Radio Free Asia 17 Sep 2024 -- Flooding caused by the remnants of Typhoon Yagi across Myanmar has killed 226 people with 77 missing, the military-backed Myanmar Alin newspaper reported on Tuesday, though some community workers fear the toll will be higher.
Shortages in Myanmar lead to 'socialist-era' economy Radio Free Asia 16 Sep 2024 -- The queue for cooking oil stretches down a Yangon street. Householders turn up before dawn to fill a plastic bottle at a subsidized rate in Myanmar's commercial capital - the latest evidence of a tanking economy.
Myanmar's junta presses ahead with census before proposed election Radio Free Asia 16 Sep 2024 -- Myanmar's junta is trying to conduct a nationwide census to prepare for elections it says it intends to hold in November 2025, but because various rebel groups control big chunks of the country amid a three-year civil war, opponents say only half of the country's 55 million citizens will be counted.
Myanmar junta arrests dozens for sending supplies to rebel zone Radio Free Asia 16 Sep 2024 -- Junta forces in Myanmar arrested and interrogated about 70 residents in the capital of Rakhine state on suspicion of being rebel sympathizers and trying to send supplies into rebel zones, residents told Radio Free Asia on Monday.
INDIAN NAVY GEARING UP FOR HADR OPS AT MYANMAR - TYPHOON YAGI India PIB 15 Sep 2024 -- Indian Navy has commenced rapid preparations to deploy Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) operations in response to the devastating flash floods in Myanmar
Rohingya detainees protest 'abominable' conditions in Indian camp VOA 14 Sep 2024 -- More than 100 Rohingya refugees who have for years been detained at a transit camp in the northeast Indian state of Assam have launched a hunger strike demanding that they be handed over to the United Nations refugee agency in New Delhi, transferred to a detention facility in the Indian capital, and that the process of resettlement in a third country be started.
More Rohingya are arriving in Bangladesh, as Rakhine state burns Radio Free Asia 13 Sep 2024 -- Some 20,000 Rohingya have entered Bangladesh in the last three months as they flee worsening conditions in Myanmar's Rakhine state, with some new arrivals taking shelter in rented houses outside U.N.-administered camps, refugees and local officials say.
Myanmar floods kill about 160 people, many trapped, residents say Radio Free Asia 13 Sep 2024 -- Flooding and landslides across Myanmar triggered by the remnants of Typhoon Yagi have killed at least 160 people, according to data compiled by Radio Free Asia, bringing widespread suffering to a country already racked by war and a stalling economy.
Civilians killed as Myanmar rebels attack junta forces in the north Radio Free Asia 12 Sep 2024 -- Thousands of people have fled from fighting between ethnic minority guerrillas and Myanmar junta troops that entered a fifth day on Thursday, and at least 10 civilians have been killed, residents told Radio Free Asia.
China in delicate dance with Myanmar's rebel groups Radio Free Asia 12 Sep 2024 -- Nearly 2 million people in Myanmar's northern Shan state are facing a shortage of medicine and other basic commodities after China shuttered its border, according to residents and ethnic rebels, who said prices for goods have "skyrocketed" in the region over the past two weeks.
Surge of Myanmar migrants into Thailand comes with grim costs Radio Free Asia 12 Sep 2024 -- When Zin Myo Yu paid to be smuggled through Myanmar's Mon state into Thailand for a lucrative factory job, she was painfully aware of the risks.
At least 10 children killed in less than a week as deadly attacks continue in Myanmar UNICEF 12 Sep 2024 -- "UNICEF is deeply alarmed by reports that at least ten children have been killed in airstrikes in Myanmar in less than a week.
Myanmar junta airstrikes kill dozens, including prisoners, rebels say Radio Free Asia 10 Sep 2024 -- Myanmar's military has killed 70 people, including many of its troops in rebel captivity, in two airstrikes in Rakhine state where Arakan Army insurgents have been making major gains against junta forces, the group said.
Red Cross chief calls for greater aid access after visit to Myanmar Radio Free Asia 10 Sep 2024 -- Myanmar's junta must allow greater aid access to civilians, the Red Cross chief said at the end of a visit to the war-torn country, warning that the conflict has created a humanitarian crisis that's put "countless people" at risk.
Rebel army captures major Myanmar navy training base Radio Free Asia 09 Sep 2024 -- Insurgents in western Myanmar have captured an important military training base after a month of fighting, the rebel army said in a statement, dealing what is likely to be a severe blow to the embattled military.
UN investigators warn of widespread abuses in Myanmar conflict UN News 09 Sep 2024 -- Warfare in Myanmar has escalated into systematic atrocities, including attacks targeting civilians, torture and sexual violence, the UN independent rights probe into the country said on Monday.
Myanmar junta airstrike kills 11 civilians in northern town Radio Free Asia 06 Sep 2024 -- Myanmar junta forces launched an airstrike on an insurgent-controlled town in Shan state on the border with China in the early hours of Friday, killing 11 civilians and wounding 11, residents said.
Myanmar rebels say they launched mortar attack on coup leader Radio Free Asia 05 Sep 2024 -- Myanmar insurgents launched mortar bombs at the junta's top leader during his visit to a military base in eastern Myanmar's Kayah state, an official from the anti-junta group told Radio Free Asia on Thursday.
Myanmar junta begins conscripting men up to age 65 to protect towns against rebels Radio Free Asia 05 Sep 2024 -- Myanmar's junta has begun forcibly recruiting male civilians up to age 65 - including even those who are disabled - to protect villages, towns and cities against encroaching rebel militias, residents told Radio Free Asia.
China, US at odds over war-torn Myanmar's future as geopolitical tensions rise VOA 05 Sep 2024 -- China recently warned against what it described as "external interference" in Myanmar, a country increasingly caught in the crossfire of escalating geopolitical rivalry between Beijing and Washington.
Month of fighting leaves once-bustling Myanmar town eerily quiet Radio Free Asia 04 Sep 2024 -- The normally bustling town of Kyaukme in northern Myanmar's Shan state is a shadow of its former self one month after ethnic rebels captured it from the military, according to residents who say they won't return because they fear retaliation from the junta.
Myanmar civilians trapped in monastery as clashes intensify Radio Free Asia 04 Sep 2024 -- Fighting in central Myanmar has trapped about 1,000 people in a monastery where they are running out of food and the sick and wounded face death without medical help, residents told Radio Free Asia on Wednesday.
Caveat creditor: China offers a financial lifeline to Myanmar's junta Radio Free Asia 02 Sep 2024 -- Opposition battlefield gains are not just a military setback for the junta, but an important economic blow that is compounding their already dire fiscal straits - something China should ponder as it moves to bail out the military regime in Myanmar.
Myanmar military court jails 144 villagers detained after massacre Radio Free Asia 02 Sep 2024 -- Myanmar's junta jailed 144 civilians for supporting insurgents more than three months after they were detained following a massacre of nearly 80 people in their village, which residents blamed on junta troops, families of the detained told Radio Free Asia on Monday.

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September 2024 - Myanmar Special Weapons News