Thura Maung, Author at Myanmar Now

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A photo found on a junta soldier’s phone shows troops involved in arson attacks on Sagaing villages in May 2022

Thura MaungJune 14, 2024

Myanmar junta establishes defensive perimeter around Taze

Locals say resistance forces did nothing to prevent the military from constructing four new bases near the Sagaing Region town

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Depayin residents flee their homes due to raids by junta forces (Supplied)

Thura MaungJune 3, 2024

Myanmar’s NUG makes arrests in deadly shootout between rival resistance groups

The incident left one former anti-junta fighter and four members of his family dead in Sagaing Region’s Depayin Township last week

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Members of the Pyu Saw Htee take part in a ceremony marking the completion of their training in Kanbalu Township on September 29, 2023 (Pro-regime social media accounts)

Thura MaungMay 30, 2024

Pyu Saw Htee torture, murder civilians in Sagaing’s Pale Township

Four of the 24 villagers held for nearly a week died while undergoing interrogation, according to survivors

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A building destroyed by a junta airstrike on the village of Ma Gyi Oak in Depayin Township on May 11 (S&C Fire, War, and Education Assistance Group)

Thura MaungMay 14, 2024

Seven killed in Myanmar junta airstrike on school in Depayin

The attack appeared to target a group of civilians and resistance fighters who had gathered to use a Starlink satellite internet connection

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An oil rig in Minhla Township, Magway Region, seen on March 10, 2019 (AFP)

Thura MaungMay 6, 2024

Resistance forces seize control of oil rig in central Myanmar

The People’s Defence Force of Myaing Township was among the groups that took over the state-owned Letpando oil rig, which has been out of operation since staff fled in 2021

Thura Maung

Myanmar junta establishes defensive perimeter around Taze

Myanmar’s NUG makes arrests in deadly shootout between rival resistance groups

Pyu Saw Htee torture, murder civilians in Sagaing’s Pale Township

Seven killed in Myanmar junta airstrike on school in Depayin

Resistance forces seize control of oil rig in central Myanmar

Julie Bishop is the only UN Special Envoy on Myanmar to conceal her financial interests from public

Inside the eight-month battle for Indaw

‘She kept asking for him and crying’: The earthquake through a rescue worker’s eyes

Aftershocks and Airstrikes: What Myanmar’s deadly earthquake means for the country’s resistance

Myanmar junta continues attacks in northern Shan State despite ceasefire

Myanmar Catholics mourn pope who remembered their plight

Karen forces resume attacks on junta forces on Thailand-Myanmar border

Myanmar’s military kills three, injures seven, in Magway’s Salin Township

Junta airstrikes kill over 40 civilians across Myanmar in two days, despite ceasefire

Myanmar junta airstrikes kill three civilians sheltering in Rakhine State monastery

Myanmar’s factories cling to life as power shortages persist

Bought Out or Seized: Mandalay farmers face impossible choices amid land grab

Myanmar junta partners with Chinese firm to build natural gas terminal despite Rakhine State conflict

Myanmar garment makers forced to exchange export earnings at junta-imposed rate

Thai officials call on Myanmar regime to crack down on fraud, trafficking gangs on Thai-Karen State border

Myanmar military continues to lose ground to anti-junta forces in northern Shan State

Despite escalating violence, Myanmar junta leader says elections will proceed

NUG-founded bank set to sell shares to meet ‘emergency needs’

Myanmar’s junta bears ‘sole responsibility’ for Suu Kyi’s health—NLD

Karenni youth fight for freedom at the cost of their lives and limbs

The mothers of the Magway resistance

A Myanmar artist finds freedom behind bars—by portraying prisoners’ oppression

As Myanmar’s revolution beckons, a new breed of activist photographers heeds the call

The man behind the Myanmar junta’s campaign of terror in Sagaing

Authorities tighten restrictions on passport process for Myanmar nationals in Thailand