In-Depth
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Jessy WolfFebruary 29, 2024
Concern grows for Rakhine youths languishing in Kyaukphyu detention centre
The mass arrest of young people returning to Rakhine State remains unexplained, more than 10 days after it began
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Jessy WolfFebruary 28, 2024
Myanmar junta airstrikes demolish Rakhine State’s Ramree town
Residents estimate that two-thirds of the Kyaukphyu District town’s homes have been destroyed, as well as the only hospital, forcing locals to take refuge in neighbouring villages to survive
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Han ThitFebruary 22, 2024
The daily life of a hired junta informant in Yangon
A Yangon ex-con told Myanmar Now about how the regime pays him to snoop for unregistered household guests, work night shifts at military checkpoints, and inform on neighbours suspected of anti-regime activism
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Ko ChoFebruary 20, 2024
Dawei-based resistance force admits to killing 16 civilians accused of being military informants
Resistance sources say the leaders of Launglon People’s Defence Team used local farms as ‘killing fields’ and acted on unsubstantiated allegations against the victims
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Myanmar NowFebruary 16, 2024
The towns that escaped the junta’s grasp in Sagaing Region
Despite constant attacks and attempts to cut them off from communications and supplies, three Sagaing Region towns are still under anti-regime forces’ control after the military retook Kawlin this week
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