In just 2 months since the conflicts intensified, @OCHAAsiaPac says number of people displaced in #Myanmar has crossed half million mark to 660,000 now. Total of 2.6 million have now lost their homes & are displaced across nation since February 2021 #coup#WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar
UN officials waltzing into #Myanmar and giving the junta what it wants - to be treated like a government - when Myanmar people have spent three years resisting its brutal efforts to force them to do exactly that must feel like such an insult. @PioSmith_UN#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
Captured #Myanmar junta pilot reportedly confesses to bombing non-military targets: schools, hospitals, IDP camps. Targeting civilian objects is a war crime. Karenni authorities should ensure the IIMM can document his testimony if they haven’t already. https://t.co/cmkZse41Y0
Latest @amnestypress report suggests #Myanmar#military likely used internationally banned cluster munitions when it conducted air attacks in #Shan early this month & that "constitutes a war crime". Army must be held accountable https://t.co/K0bbyyjxNl #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar
Local people flee after military raid in Bago about 100 km north of Yangon. At least 20 were killed by security forces on Friday alone according to local media reports. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
The Tatmadaw has rejected an opportunity to engage in talks with UN special envoy Christine Schraner Burgener who has arrived in neighbouring Thailand. Ms Burgener has repeatedly told the BBC that she wishes to enter Myanmar to seek peaceful solutions.
At least 20 people have been killed today in Bago. Hundreds of dozens of people left the town already. - 5 local residents told me. The death toll may rise.
At least 10 people were killed in Bago and their bodies piled up in the corner of a pagoda. Some reports put the death toll at least double: https://t.co/8YNlKUjN9L #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
“Now is the right time for armed rebellion, because the majority Bamar people have faced the military’s brutal actions,” says an ethnic Kachin youth. “Before, they didn’t care about us, and sometimes even supported the Tatmadaw, but now, they’ve learned.” https://t.co/mpZKbIV76l
This little kid was having food and notice the jets fly over him. He is in alert position. Military terrorist destroy their peaceful lives. How could this little kid understand about war?#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar#CrimesAgainstHumanity
The civilian death toll in Myanmar is approaching 600. Junta leader Min Aung Hlaing said the civil disobedience movement was “destroying” Myanmar.
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An English version of the federal democracy charter published today by representatives of Myanmar’s civilian government, with inputs from protest groups, ethnic groups & armed forces & civil society.
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“Every day I wake up feeling lifeless, helpless and futureless because my basic human rights were taken away overnight. No words can describe the anger I feel for being treated inhumanely with oppression, lies and violence.” 23, student, Yangon.
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MYANMAR JUNTA ORDERS INTERNET PROVIDERS TO SHUT DOWN ALL WIRELESS BROADBAND SERVICES UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE - TELECOMS SOURCES (@Reuters)
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I’m being told there are several victims who are children or teenagers. One boy is reportedly just 5 years old, another 13, another 16. At least 50 people killed across the entire country on a day which is supposedly a national day of “pride” for the army
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At least 50 people have now been killed by the Mynmar junta's forces across the country, according to reports from various places on @Myanmar_Now_Eng#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
Medical student Khant Nyar Hein, still a teenager, was on his way to becoming a doctor. He was killed by security forces in a crackdown on protests against Myanmar's coup one among dozens of people mourned today #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar