Weekly update on situation in Karen, Mon & Dawei since the attempted coup:
⚠️ 18+ Arrested
⚠️ 15+ Detained
⚠️ 6+ Injured
⚠️ 1 Killed
Over the last week, fighting led to thousands more IDPs fleeing violence & shelling in #Karen + #Mon State. Civilians are #NotATarget.
Rezua, a town north of Matupi near the border with Thantlang Township, has been emptied of its over 800 households, following incessant & indiscriminate shellings of residential areas from the army camp & arrival of reinforcements, including the notorious LID 66 units from Matupi
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Monk urges everyone to join silent strike on feb 1 which marks one year after coup.
24.1.2022
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“A nationwide rebellion against last year’s coup has the #Myanmar military fighting on multiple fronts, making space for the #ArakanArmy to entrench de facto control over #Rakhinestate – and some residents hope it stays that way.”
My latest for @SCMPnews https://t.co/6N0DPKtGPK
OPINION | On Myanmar’s coup anniversary we must turn our back on a year of failed policies
Accountability for Min Aung Hlaing must be put front and centre, beginning with a referral to the ICC, leaders of the Myanmar Accountability Project say
https://t.co/vOhVBh0zHN
This morning (at around 9:00 am to be exact), 2 military helicopters landed in that #InnMaHtee village of Pale township. But, after a certain time, they left again from that village.
Reason of landing has not been clear yet.
#2022Jan31Coup#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
This morning (at around 9:00 am to be exact), 2 military helicopters landed in that #InnMaHtee village of Pale township. But, after a certain time, they left again from that village.
Reason of landing has not been clear yet.
#2022Jan31Coup#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
Violence, poverty haunt Myanmar a year after the junta takeover
One year after Myanmar’s military toppled the country’s elected government over unproven voting fraud claims, the nation of 54 million people is wracked by conflict and facing economic collapse.
Military Terrorists from military base on the bank of Salween River in #Hpa_pun District Fired Artillery shells on the night of Jan30 and artillery shells landed in #Maekharhtar village on the side of the Thai border & Exploded—Forcing the nearby residents to flee.
#2022Jan30Coup
On Jan 30, junta soldiers destroyed at least 6 houses along Monywa-Pathein Road in Sagaing's Yinmarbin & Salingyi tsps & belongings of locals including 3 motorcycles, and arrested an innocent person with mental illness & released at night.
#2022Jan31Coup#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
Salai Za Uk Ling of the Chin Human Rights Organization, a rights-based group representing the Christian-majority Chin population, says that even when Aung San Suu Kyi was in office, Buddhism was a dominating force in politics.
https://t.co/pvIGTaqkwX
SAC and PyuSawHtee set at least 10houses on Fire during the clash Clash broke out between PDF Joint forces in InnMaHtee Village, Pale Tsp, Sagaing Division at around 4:30pm and launched Airstrike at 7:30pm on Jan30.
#WarCrimesOfJunta#2022Jan31Coup#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
INTERVIEW | Myanmar’s PDFs in ‘phase one’ of revolutionary war
Guerrilla forces’ tactical achievements in the war on the junta must be followed by the development of a long-term national strategy, analyst Anthony Davis says
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Foreign biz have been withdrawing from #Myanmar military's brutal attempted coup some of which @Reuters outlined 👉🏽 https://t.co/BPf72zVPLq.
Also see list of actions States have adopted by @SpecialCouncil who has been calling on biz & govs to #CutTheCash https://t.co/y1YKQm3NBr