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August 2025 - Myanmar Special Weapons News
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- Prime Minister meets with Sr. Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, Chairman of the State Security and Peace Commission of Myanmar, on the sidelines of the SCO Summit (August 31, 2025) India MEA 31 Aug 2025 -- Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi met today with Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, Chairman of the State Security and Peace Commission of Myanmar, on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit in Tianjin.
- Xi Jinping Meets with Myanmar's Acting President Min Aung Hlaing PRC MofA 30 Aug 2025 -- On the afternoon of August 30, 2025, President Xi Jinping met at the Tianjin Guest House with Myanmar's Acting President Min Aung Hlaing, who is in China for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit 2025 and the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War.
- Children bear the brunt of escalating violence in Rakhine, Myanmar, as deadly attacks continue UNICEF 28 Aug 2025 -- UNICEF is gravely concerned by reports of an attack on 25 August in Mrauk U Township, Rakhine State, that reportedly killed and injured children and destroyed homes.
- OIC Renews Call for Justice and Accountability on the Eighth Anniversary of Atrocities against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) 26 Aug 2025 -- On the eighth anniversary of the mass atrocities committed against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar's Rakhine state, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) reiterates its unwavering support for the Rohingya people and reaffirms its steadfast commitment to justice, accountability, and the protection of human rights.
- UNHCR welcomes Royal Thai Government resolution providing long-term refugees the right to work UNHCR 26 Aug 2025 -- UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, today commended the Royal Thai Government's adoption of a resolution that will grant long-staying refugees from Myanmar the right to work in Thailand.
- Thailand grants work rights to long-term refugees from Myanmar, UN welcomes resolution UN News 26 Aug 2025 -- A new resolution by the Thai Government that will allow long-staying refugees from Myanmar to work legally in the country was welcomed on Tuesday by the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, as a significant boost to the national economy.
- Statement to mark the eighth anniversary of the Myanmar military's attack against Rohingya Australia DFAT 25 Aug 2025
- UN urges renewed solidarity eight years after forced exodus of Rohingya UN News 25 Aug 2025 -- Monday marks eight years since the mass displacement of Rohingya from Rakhine state in Myanmar and the United Nations is calling for greater international solidarity with the mainly Muslim minority community.
- Violence in Burma US Dept. of State 24 Aug 2025
- Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General - on the eighth anniversary of the displacement of Rohingya people and other communities from Myanmar UN Secretary-General 22 Aug 2025
- Myanmar: Eight years after brutal military assault, Rohingya suffering continues OHCHR 22 Aug 2025 -- As we near the passing of another year with no justice for the violence which started on 25 August 2017 in Myanmar, we are left to ask the question of when the enduring misery for these and ongoing crimes will end, particularly for the long-suffering Rohingya community.
- Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General - on the eighth anniversary of the displacement of Rohingya people and other communities from Myanmar UN Secretary-General 22 Aug 2025
- Myanmar's ruling junta sets Dec. 28 election date as civil war rages Radio Free Asia 18 Aug 2025 -- The military-backed election commission in Myanmar set Dec. 28 for the initial phase of long-promised elections, the first since the 2021 coup that overthrew the country's last elected government and kicked off a still-raging civil war.
- Wang Yi Meets with Foreign Minister of Myanmar Than Swe PRC MofA 14 Aug 2025 -- On August 14, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Foreign Minister of Myanmar Than Swe, who was in China for the 10th Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Foreign Ministers' Meeting held in Anning, Yunnan.
- WFP urges life-saving support for Myanmar's Rakhine State as hunger surges WFP 12 Aug 2025 -- The World Food Programme (WFP) is urgently calling for more humanitarian support in Rakhine State, where a deadly combination of conflict, blockades, and funding cuts is driving a dramatic rise in hunger and malnutrition.
- Myanmar: Rights investigators reveal 'systematic torture', sexual violence UN News 12 Aug 2025 -- UN-mandated independent investigators have uncovered "systematic torture" in Myanmar's military-run detention facilities - including beatings, electric shocks, strangulations and gang rape - a pattern of atrocities which is intensifying across the country.
- The Situation in Myanmar Following the Lifting of the State of Emergency (Statement by Foreign Minister IWAYA Takeshi) Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan 01 Aug 2025
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