Anti-junta movement Archives

News

March 17, 2022

Junta soldiers ‘lead captured guerrilla fighter to cemetery with a noose around his neck’ before killing him

Ye Min Zaw, 21, was found dead under a pile of sawdust

News

Aung NaingFebruary 2, 2022

Monks’ association accuses junta of politicizing religion

The regime’s distribution of pamphlets about alleged electoral fraud to monasteries violates the constitution, say monks

Interview

January 22, 2022

‘I’ve never seen such solidarity… we expect the revolution to succeed this year’ – NUG Prime Minister

Mahn Win Khaing Than tells Myanmar Now his administration at first struggled to convince ethnic armed groups to fight the junta, but now ‘victory is inevitable’

News

Myanmar NowDecember 10, 2021

Myanmar defies junta rule with nationwide Silent Strike

The strike came amid renewed public anger after a massacre in Sagaing and a brutal attack on protesters in Yangon

News

November 12, 2021

After hobbling junta’s ability to govern in Yaw, anti-coup forces form People’s Administration Team

Some 80% of government staff working for the junta have resigned following an ultimatum from resistance fighters

Anti-junta movement

Junta soldiers ‘lead captured guerrilla fighter to cemetery with a noose around his neck’ before killing him

Monks’ association accuses junta of politicizing religion

‘I’ve never seen such solidarity… we expect the revolution to succeed this year’ – NUG Prime Minister

Myanmar defies junta rule with nationwide Silent Strike

After hobbling junta’s ability to govern in Yaw, anti-coup forces form People’s Administration Team

‘The sense of safety and security for Myanmar women is declining by the day’ – An advocate for abuse survivors speaks out

Argentina’s arrest warrants and Myanmar’s reckoning with justice

‘Treat Them as Humans’: Inside Myanmar’s resistance POW prisons

‘To light the way for others, we must be willing to risk getting burned’: resistance leader

Civil society groups demand investigation into UN envoy’s alleged conflicts of interest

Bangladesh arrests notorious Rohingya militant leader

Fierce fighting continues in Rakhine State as military tries to push back AA advance

Myanmar junta bombs Chin State township hundreds of times in one week

Anti-junta forces ambush junta column in Sagaing, capture 30 Troops

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

International payment services suspended for Myanmar users

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