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    • NewsKaren National Union official, Padoh Saw Soe Myint, attends the 75th anniversary of the Karen Revolution in Doo Tha Htoo district on January 31, 2024. The longtime KNU official was recently charged under the junta’s new election laws. (Photo: KNU)
      Aung ZayNovember 12, 2025

      Junta charges Karen leader and other opposition figures under new election laws

      The regime’s latest arrests under harsh election laws highlight a widening crackdown on dissent

    • MyanmarFilm directors Zabu Htun Thet Lwin and Aung Yay Chan, both detained by the junta in connection with the regime’s crackdown on artists accused of criticising the upcoming election. (Photo: Social Media)
      Aung ZayNovember 6, 2025

      Myanmar junta detains over 90 people for ‘disrupting’ election process

      Musicians, filmmakers, and teenagers among those targeted under sweeping new election laws

    • NewsA junta security checkpoint in Mandalay city on June 23, 2021, where soldiers and police were inspecting vehicles and monitoring movement following widespread anti-coup protests. (Photo: AFP)
      Aung ZayOctober 30, 2025

      Underground fighters escalate attacks on junta collaborators in Bago

      The surge in assassinations and attacks on election infrastructure signals a growing underground campaign to disrupt the junta’s efforts to stage nationwide polls

    • NewsResidents near the Sittaung River in Nyaunglebin District in August, 2025. (Photo: KNU)
      Aung ZayOctober 24, 2025

      Hundreds flee junta airstrikes in Bago Region’s Yedashe Township

      More than 500 people have fled villages along the Sittaung River amid renewed fighting between junta troops and KNU-allied resistance forces

    • MyanmarPDF fighters with two prisoners and ammunition seized from a junta base in Ywar Thit village in the Swar Ywar Ma village tract of Bago Region’s Yedashe Township (Photo: PDF’s Naypyitaw Regional Military Command)
      Aung ZayOctober 22, 2025

      Junta lieutenant colonel among 15 killed in resistance attack on Bago Region base

      Resistance forces attacked a regime outpost in a village on the east bank of the Sittaung River in Bago Region, resulting in 15 junta fatalities and the capture of two prisoners, according to a resistance statement

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