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M'sia to lead ASEAN delegation to war-torn Myanmar. Diplomats from M'sia, currently chairs regional bloc, said they try to assess whether Myanmar junta’s planned elections be ‘comprehensive’.

M'sia will lead a delegation to Myanmar next month after junta scrapped its state of emergency, foreign minister Mohamad Hasan announced on Friday.
Mohamad told reporters trip will “most likely” take place on September 19 and include foreign ministers of Indonesia, Thailand & the Philippines. “I want to get a clear picture for me to bring to the attention of ASEAN leadership in October,” he said, referring to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN’s) year-end summit. Malaysia currently chairs the bloc, has tried to increase pressure on member state Myanmar’s junta, including by barring its leaders from summits, over ongoing bloodshed. But ASEAN has so far been fruitless in its diplomatic efforts to end Myanmar’s conflict, triggered by the junta’s ousting of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021, sparking a many-sided civil war. Last week, military chief Min Aung Hlaing ended nationwide state of emergency declared during coup touted plans for an election in December.

M'sian Foreign Minister Mohamad said ASEAN delegation will look into the coming polls. “I want to discuss them whether their elections will be comprehensive.” Mohamad pointed out there are still 63 cities or areas currently still in state of emergency. Most of them are conflict zones or areas under the control of anti-junta groups. No exact date has yet been set for the election.

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M'sia to lead ASEAN delegation to war-torn Myanmar. Diplomats from M'sia, currently chairs regional bloc, said they try to assess whether Myanmar junta’s planned elections be ‘comprehensive’.

M'sia will lead a delegation to Myanmar next month after junta scrapped its state of emergency, foreign minister Mohamad Hasan announced on Friday.
Mohamad told reporters trip will “most likely” take place on September 19 and include foreign ministers of Indonesia, Thailand & the Philippines. “I want to get a clear picture for me to bring to the attention of ASEAN leadership in October,” he said, referring to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN’s) year-end summit. Malaysia currently chairs the bloc, has tried to increase pressure on member state Myanmar’s junta, including by barring its leaders from summits, over ongoing bloodshed. But ASEAN has so far been fruitless in its diplomatic efforts to end Myanmar’s conflict, triggered by the junta’s ousting of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021, sparking a many-sided civil war. Last week, military chief Min Aung Hlaing ended nationwide state of emergency declared during coup touted plans for an election in December.

M'sian Foreign Minister Mohamad said ASEAN delegation will look into the coming polls. “I want to discuss them whether their elections will be comprehensive.” Mohamad pointed out there are still 63 cities or areas currently still in state of emergency. Most of them are conflict zones or areas under the control of anti-junta groups. No exact date has yet been set for the election.

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Malaysia will lead a regional delegation to Myanmar next month after the junta scrapped its state of emergency, foreign minister Mohamad Hasan announced on Friday.

Mohamad told reporters the trip will “most likely” take place on September 19 and include the foreign ministers of Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines. “I want to get a clear picture for me to bring to the attention of the ASEAN leadership in October,” he said, referring to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN’s) year-end summit. Malaysia currently chairs the bloc, which has tried to increase pressure on member state Myanmar’s junta, including by barring its leaders from summits, over the ongoing bloodshed. But the ASEAN has so far been fruitless in its diplomatic efforts to end Myanmar’s conflict, triggered by the junta’s ousting of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021, sparking a many-sided civil war.

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Malaysia PARLIAMENT Abit like TAIWAN|

Dewan Rakyat speaker Johari Abdul lost his cool today after a shouting match between opposition and DAP MPs. “Very shameful of you all, shameful!” he exclaimed after an extended shouting match primarily between Awang Hashim (PN-Pendang) & RSN Rayer (Harapan-Jelutong).

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M'sia to lead ASEAN delegation to war-torn Myanmar. Diplomats from M'sia, currently chairs regional bloc, said they try to assess whether Myanmar junta’s planned elections be ‘comprehensive’.

M'sia will lead a delegation to Myanmar next month after junta scrapped its state of emergency, foreign minister Mohamad Hasan announced on Friday.
Mohamad told reporters trip will “most likely” take place on September 19 and include foreign ministers of Indonesia, Thailand & the Philippines. “I want to get a clear picture for me to bring to the attention of ASEAN leadership in October,” he said, referring to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN’s) year-end summit. Malaysia currently chairs the bloc, has tried to increase pressure on member state Myanmar’s junta, including by barring its leaders from summits, over ongoing bloodshed. But ASEAN has so far been fruitless in its diplomatic efforts to end Myanmar’s conflict, triggered by the junta’s ousting of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021, sparking a many-sided civil war. Last week, military chief Min Aung Hlaing ended nationwide state of emergency declared during coup touted plans for an election in December.

M'sian Foreign Minister Mohamad said ASEAN delegation will look into the coming polls. “I want to discuss them whether their elections will be comprehensive.” Mohamad pointed out there are still 63 cities or areas currently still in state of emergency. Most of them are conflict zones or areas under the control of anti-junta groups. No exact date has yet been set for the election.

Junta offensive in Mandalay Region leaves 13 Dead, displaces 20,000Troops backed by pro-junta militias have carried out arson attacks, airstrikes, and heavy shelling in Mandalay Region, driving tens of thousands from their homes. Troops backed by pro-junta militias have carried out arson attacks, airstrikes, and heavy shelling in Mandalay Region, driving tens of thousands from their homes.

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Junta offensive in Mandalay Region leaves 13 Dead, displaces 20,000Troops backed by pro-junta militias have carried out arson attacks, airstrikes, and heavy shelling in Mandalay Region, driving tens of thousands from their homes. Troops backed by pro-junta militias have carried out arson attacks, airstrikes, and heavy shelling in Mandalay Region, driving tens of thousands from their homes.

A battle map of who, who is fighting who.

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The leader of the ethnic Ta’ang National Liberation Army on Tuesday denounced interference in Myanmar by Chinese govt looks only to its own self-interest. TNLA General Secretary Major General Tar Phone Kyaw in Facebook post lamented recent Chinese pressure on ethnic armies to lay down arms or  even cede territory to Myanmar junta, saying Chinese “dominance” is one of the major challenges for Myanmar’s anti-military dictatorship revolution. Among other challenges, Tar Phone Kyaw highlighted more killings and brutality of the military dictatorship, as well as a lack of strong & unified leadership in the resistance.
At previous press conferences, TNLA officials publicly stated that they have faced not only increasing pressure but also threats from Chinese govt to stop fight the regime, when the Junta boss keep killing many innocent own folks. The TNLA is a member of the Brotherhood Alliance along with the Arakan Army (AA) based in Rakhine State & the along w/Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), a Kokang ethnic armed group from northern Shan State.

They launched Operation 1027, a major anti-regime military operation, across northern Shan State in October 2023, seizing most of the region including the capital Lashio and vital trade routes with China. The TNLA and allies seized additional towns in northern Mandalay Region, pushing towards the country’s second-largest city, Mandalay, in September 2024. But they had to slow their ops under intense pressure from the Chinese govt, which closed all border gates into territories of the two ethnic armies in northern Shan State. China also pressured another powerful group, the United Wa State Army (UWSA) in eastern Shan State, to close gates to MNDAA-held territory. Chinese govt karma is so bad, not helping himself for reportedly detained MNDAA leader Peng Daren in 2024, prompting this such group not, but help to pledge it would not attack Mandalay or Taunggyi, capital of southern Shan State. It was then, they the forced his to hand back Lashio back to the regime in April this year. But the TNLA, in China-brokered “peace” talks in Kunming in late April, refused regime’s demand to return towns it had liberated. Since then, junta has been bombing TNLA-held territory, resulting in a large number of civilian casualties.  As
further the Chinese-brokered talk, will
be between regime & the TNLA are scheduled later this month...

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Six killed, dozens injured by junta airstrikes target Magway villages. Air & artillery strikes across Pauk Township have hit monasteries, homes, and shelters since late May. Here. Is war in Myanmar approaching its ‘culminating point’?.

Nearly five years into a conflict being fought on multiple fronts, it is still far from clear who will prevail in the end. Then with desperate Myanmar villagers scavenge for food as hunger bites hunger surges in Rakhine State as conflict and US-led aid cuts choke vital supplies...People in western Myanmar have been driven to scavenging for bamboo shoots, as humanitarian workers warn a wartime blockade and aid cutbacks led by Washington have caused hunger cases to surge.

“Another day has gone, and I have to struggle again for another day,” fruit vendor Kyaw Win Shein told AFP in the town of Mrauk U in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. “It getting worse day by day,” a 60-yr-old, whose business is faltering as prices rise, incomes drop—a grim equation driving others to scour countryside for sustenance. Rakhine state—a riverine slice of coastal Myanmar bordering Bangladesh—has witnessed intense suffering in Myanmar’s civil war, triggered by a 2021 coup deposing the democratic government.

As military fights an ethnic armed group, it has blockaded the territory—throttling supplies to its estimated population of 2.5 million. The impoverished state has long been a focus of international aid organisations, but worldwide cutbacks spearheaded by US President Donald Trump’s “America First” freeze on humanitarian funding have forced them to retreat. “The commodity prices are really high,” said 64-yr-old Mrauk U resident Hla Paw Tun.“Many people are selling, but few are buying,” he said. “We have been struggling to survive day by day.” Rakhine has long been wracked by civil conflict—site of alleged military atrocities against resident. Rohingya minority around 2017, which some countries have deemed a genocide. More than one million Rohingya now live in Bangladeshi border camps—and the UN said last month a massive new influx had seen 150,000 arrivals over the previous 18 months. Meanwhile, nearly half a mil remain displaced inside Rakhine.

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Children as young as two years old have been detained by Myanmar’s military, often as proxies for their parents, and held in prison facilities where there is systematic torture, UN investigators have warned.

The Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar, which was set up to document and share evidence of abuse with national, regional and international courts, said in a report that “frequency and brutality” of atrocities inside the country had continued to escalate, more than four years after the military seized power in a coup in February 2021. The IIMM said it had collected evidence from witnesses indicating children aged from two to 17 had been detained, often in lieu of their parents. Military & police may detain children in cases parents who perceived to be associated with opposition movements cannot be found to arrest. Some detained children had been subjected to torture, ill treatment or sexual gender-based crimes report said.

Military has conducted mass arrests since coup, detaining almost 30,000 people, including political opponents, journalists and activists accused of resisting junta rule, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma), a local group that tracks arrests.

The IIMM said it had gathered significant evidence that there was systematic torture inside prison facilities, including beatings, electric shocks, strangulation, torture by pulling out fingernails with pliers, and forms of sexual violence, including rape and gang-rape. Torture had resulted in death, report said.
Investigators had made progress in identifying specific members and units of security forces “involved in operations at identified detention facilities”, report added, including direct perpetrators of sexual and gender-based crimes as well as high-level commanders.

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Children as young as two years old have been detained by Myanmar’s military, often as proxies for their parents, and held in prison facilities where there is systematic torture, UN investigators have warned.

The Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar, which was set up to document and share evidence of abuse with national, regional and international courts, said in a report that “frequency and brutality” of atrocities inside the country had continued to escalate, more than four years after the military seized power in a coup in February 2021. The IIMM said it had collected evidence from witnesses indicating children aged from two to 17 had been detained, often in lieu of their parents. Military & police may detain children in cases parents who perceived to be associated w/opposition movements cannot be found to arrest. Some detained children had been subjected to torture, ill treatment or sexual gender-based crimes report said.

Military has conducted mass arrests since coup, detaining almost 30,000 people, including political opponents, journalists and activists accused of resisting junta rule, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma), a local group that tracks arrests.

The IIMM said it had gathered significant evidence that there was systematic torture inside prison facilities, including beatings, electric shocks, strangulation, torture by pulling out fingernails with pliers, and forms of sexual violence, including rape and gang-rape. Torture had resulted in death, report said.
Investigators had made progress in identifying specific members and units of security forces “involved in operations at identified detention facilities”, report added, including direct perpetrators of sexual and gender-based crimes as well as high-level commanders.

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Junta repeatedly targeted areas under the control of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in recent days as continues its push to take the southern Kachin State city of Bhamo. Junta launched multiple drone attacks near Laiza, where KIA HQ, as well as in KIA-controlled areas of Hpakant Township, attacks have also been in other areas including in Shwegu Township, where KIA’s newly formed Brigade 11 operates, and near Manweingyi, on the Chinese border.

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“Every family is praying for their loved ones to come home safely,” she said.

There is some small hope: the UNDP survey showed that 90% of young people who were bent on leaving were also willing to come home if the political and economic situation stabilized.
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Commentary: What does Myanmar Acting President Myint Swe’s death mean for the country?. The passing of Myanmar’s acting president provides an occasion to contemplate his life & Myanmar’s future, say two experts.

S'PORE: Myanmar's State Security & Peace Commission (SSPC) announced th
death of Acting President Myint Swe, w
74 years old, on Aug 7 & decided to hold a state funeral. SSPC’s decision, though in accordance w/protocol for passing of a sitting head of state, requires some contextual consideration of Myint Swe’s life, actions, role in Myanmar’s political trajectory. A lieutenant general and chief minister of Yangon Division from 2011 to 2016 during Union Solidar Development Party (USDP) admin Myint Swe was the military’s nominee for president, the National League for Democracy (NLD) prepared to take office in 2016. He became 1 of two vice-presidents – was known as senior vice-president – during NLD admin. Myint Swe was in this role at the time of February 2021 military coup, became acting president post-coup. His elevation associated w/constitutional requirement for a presidential request by military “unusual circumstances” to take over state power in times of emergency.
Since then, however, he rarely in media spotlight & appeared mostly at periodic meetings of the National Security and Defence Council to approve extensions of the state of emergency. Myint Swe attracted some international attention over his statement expressing concern over country’s disintegration following surprise offensive Operation 1027 launched by ethnic armed organisations in Northern Shan State in October 2023. He took medical leave in July 2024; then SAC chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, took over as acting president.

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Myanmar mi:litary regime announces election date:
The junta-controlled election commission said that Sunday, December 28 had been set as the date for the 2025 election, which analysts have condemned as a ‘sham’ due to the regime’s use of violence and repression against opponents

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Myanmar junta boss Min Aung Hlaing urged both military personnel & civilians to cast ballots “without fail” in a regime-organized election scheduled to be held in phases starting in December. A visit to Magwe junta leader met military personnel & their families at Central Command headquarters, as well as business owners & other local residents.
He urged them to “do the duty of a good citizen by casting a vote” and to vote for those with “capacity and commitment to national interests”.

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Thai-Myanmar crossing shut as junta clamps down on trade

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Thai-Myanmar crossing shut as junta clamps down on trade

YANGON: Myanmar and Thailand's busiest trade crossing was closed for a second day on Tuesday (Aug 19) after the junta pledged to throttle black markets funding armed opposition groups ahead of a disputed December election.

The military, which seized power in a 2021 coup, controls the Myawaddy bridge that carries more than US$120 million of trade between the neighbouring nations every month, according to Thai customs figures.

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Thai-Myanmar crossing shut as junta clamps down on trade

Myanmar junta claims town captured, expanding election reach. YANGON: Myanmar's junta said on Wed (Aug 20) its troops captured a key town in east after 16-day battle, clawing back rebel-contested territory as it prepares for a disputed Dec election. Demoso, 105 km east of capital Naypyidaw, witnessed intense fighting since military's over throw the democratic govt in 2021.

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Myanmar junta military hammers Kyaukme with airstrikes while pushing into TNLA-held areas. Since recapturing the town of Nawnghkio from the Ta’ang army, the military’s forces have been pushing towards Mogok, Mandalay Region & Kyaukme, northern Shan State.

Dozens killed by junta: They escalates air raids in Karenni State’s Hpasawng Township. The junta military launched near-daily airstrikes in Hpasawng Township, killing 52 people in less than two months as resistance forces push towards a last remaining junta base. Meanwhile 5 civilians killed as army continues its push into Natogyi Township The junta’s ground offensive in the township southwest of Mandalay. Another 3 killed in airstrike in Sagaing Region’s Kawlin Township. A family of three died in the bombing of the Sagaing Region town and...

Myanmar regime retakes Demoso town, as it prepares to push deeper into Karenni State. Although junta forces have expanded their hold over the town’s abandoned, the urban centre, Demoso Township’s key population centres remain under control by resistance.

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Five killed as junta troops raid, burn villages in Sagaing Region. Myanmar military is fighting to regain control in Sagaing Region including Kanbalu Township, where the army conducted deadly raids & arson attacks this week.
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M'sia to lead ASEAN delegation to war-torn Myanmar. Diplomats from M'sia, currently chairs regional bloc, said they try to assess whether Myanmar junta’s planned elections be ‘comprehensive’.

M'sia will lead a delegation to Myanmar next month after junta scrapped its state of emergency, foreign minister Mohamad Hasan announced on Friday.
Mohamad told reporters trip will “most likely” take place on September 19 and include foreign ministers of Indonesia, Thailand & the Philippines. “I want to get a clear picture for me to bring to the attention of ASEAN leadership in October,” he said, referring to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN’s) year-end summit. Malaysia currently chairs the bloc, has tried to increase pressure on member state Myanmar’s junta, including by barring its leaders from summits, over ongoing bloodshed. But ASEAN has so far been fruitless in its diplomatic efforts to end Myanmar’s conflict, triggered by the junta’s ousting of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021, sparking a many-sided civil war. Last week, military chief Min Aung Hlaing ended nationwide state of emergency declared during coup touted plans for an election in December.

M'sian Foreign Minister Mohamad said ASEAN will look into coming polls. Want to discuss them whether their elections will be comprehensive.
Mohamad pointed out there are still 63 cities or areas currently still in state of emergency. Most of them are conflict zones or areas under the control of anti-junta groups. No exact date has yet been set for the election.

Under mounting pressure from the Chinese govt, United Wa State Party (UWSP)—political wing of United Wa State Army (UWSA), most powerful ethnic armed group in Myanmar — on Wednesday said they will cease all forms of support to allied groups, including two ethnic armies fighting the regime near the Chinese border. Through its WeChat account, UWSP’s mouthpiece Wa State TV announced group had officially decided to halt supply of weapons, equipment & military & financial to 3 ethnic armies—1) Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), 2) Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) & 3) Shan State Progressive Party (SSPP). 

It said decision was announced during a meeting with leaders of the three ethnic armies in Panghsang, capital of Wa State, on Wednesday. TNLA & MNDAA are members of Brotherhood Alliance along with the Rakhine State-based Arakan Army. With help of several other resistance groups, including People’s Defense Force (PDF), armed wing of the civilian National Unity Govt (NUG), the ethnic alliance launched large-scale anti-regime Operation 1027 in northern Shan State in October 2023, seizing most of northern Shan including capital Lashio & vital trade routes w/China. Why We Still Don’t Understand Myanmar Military. At meeting, UWSP Vice Chair Zhao Guoan said, “Wa State has long supported allied groups out of empathy shared ethnic identity,” Operation 1027 violated China’s policy of “no war & no unrest” in northern Myanmar, prohibition against ethnic armed groups contacting  NUG and other “external forces”.

UWSP Vice Chair Zhao Guoan at meeting between UWSP, MNDAA, TNLA and SSPP in Panghsang on Aug. 20, 2025. The
China holds UWSP responsible for enabling armed conflict in northern Shan State by providing military & economic support to other groups in northern Shan, Zhao Guoan said. In response, Beijing has taken unprecedented actions against UWSA, including arresting individuals, freezing assets, sealing border crossings & other severe measures, he said. “If UWSP/UWSA do not end support for your organizations, China will escalate punitive measures.
Current pressure is already unbearable: the worst survival crisis in 40 years. We dare not imagine consequences if China escalates its pressure on us,” Zhao Guoan told representatives of 3 ethnic allies during the meeting.

At meeting, UWSP declared it'll no longer provide weapons, help w/military logistics, or economic help to any organization under any circumstances. Aannouncement came after junta-appointed Shan State Chief Minister Aung Aung & Triangle Region Command chief Major General Soe Hlaing’s visit to Wa capital Panghsang early this mth. On Aug. 20, 2025. A military analyst who monitors northern Shan State fighting & political issues told The Irrawaddy that the UWSP had actually been forced

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China, India watch as Myanmar rebels advance on strategic western frontier

Arakan Army rebels seize 14 of 17 townships in Rakhine & pledge to liberate entire frontier state in western Myanmar. Rakhine State stands at a pivotal moment as Arakan Army (AA) edges closer to seizing control of Myanmar’s strategic western frontier region, a shift in power that could redefine both the country’s civil war and regional geopolitics. While Myanmar’s military govt has clawed back territory elsewhere in the country, AA now controls 14 of 17 townships in Rakhine, situated on Bay of Bengal in country’s west & shares a border with Bangladesh. Flush from victories against military junta, the rebel group has pledged to capture remainder of Rakhine State, including capital Sittwe, as well as a key Indian port project, and Kyaukphyu, home to oil & gas pipelines & a deep-sea port central to China’s Belt and Road Initiative.

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Children as young as two years old have been detained by Myanmar’s military, often as proxies for their parents, and held in prison facilities where there is systematic torture, UN investigators have warned.

The Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar, which was set up to document and share evidence of abuse with national, regional and international courts, said in a report that “frequency and brutality” of atrocities inside the country had continued to escalate, more than four years after the military seized power in a coup in February 2021. The IIMM said it had collected evidence from witnesses indicating children aged from two to 17 had been detained, often in lieu of their parents. Military & police may detain children in cases parents who perceived to be associated with opposition movements cannot be found to arrest. Some detained children had been subjected to torture, ill treatment or sexual gender-based crimes report said.

Military has conducted mass arrests since coup, detaining almost 30,000 people, including political opponents, journalists and activists accused of resisting junta rule, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma), a local group that tracks arrests.

The IIMM said it had gathered significant evidence that there was systematic torture inside prison facilities, including beatings, electric shocks, strangulation, torture by pulling out fingernails with pliers, and forms of sexual violence, including rape and gang-rape. Torture had resulted in death, report said.
Investigators had made progress in identifying specific members and units of security forces “involved in operations at identified detention facilities”, report added, including direct perpetrators of sexual and gender-based crimes as well as high-level commanders.

Myanmar junta says historic railway bridge 'bombed, destroyed'. Army soldiers pose in front of captured fire dept station in Myanmar's eastern state of Kayah, which the military govt claim to have recaptured from resistance forces, on Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025 (Myanmar Military via AP)…see more. Myanmar's ruling military junta said on Sunday (Aug 24) a colonial-era bridge that was once the world's highest railway trestle had been "bombed, destroyed" by anti-coup armed groups. A civil war has consumed Myanmar since a 2021 coup deposed the civilian govt, with military battling a myriad of pro-democracy guerrillas and ethnic armed organisations. Junta spokesman Zaw Min Tun said in video statement to media that the Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) & People's Defence Forces had "bombed & destroyed" Gokteik bridge.

Another statement by the junta said the bridge had been "exploded with mines".
Standing 102 metres above a gorge, the Gokteik Viaduct is the highest bridge in Myanmar & was tallest railway trestle in the world when it opened in 1901 during the British colonial era. Videos & photos on social media showed bridge partly collapsed & damaged, bridge connects Mandalay to northern Shan State by rail and draws a number of tourists.

A TNLA spokesperson rejected the accusations said it was the junta that had bombed the bridge. "They, Myanmar army tried to bomb our bases. This morning by using drones. They bombed our troops, but their bomb also hit Gokteik bridge," Lway Yay Oo said. A
nearby towns of Nawnghkio & Kyaukme have seen heavy fighting between the TNLA & the junta in recent weeks. Junta then claimed to have recaptured Nawnghkio in July...

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Myanmar junta says historic railway bridge 'bombed, destroyed'. Army soldiers pose in front of captured fire dept station in Myanmar's eastern state of Kayah, which the military govt claim to have recaptured from resistance forces, on Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025 (Myanmar Military via AP)…see more. Myanmar's ruling military junta said on Sunday (Aug 24) a colonial-era bridge that was once the world's highest railway trestle had been "bombed, destroyed" by anti-coup armed groups. A civil war has consumed Myanmar since a 2021 coup deposed the civilian govt, with military battling a myriad of pro-democracy guerrillas and ethnic armed organisations. Junta spokesman Zaw Min Tun said in video statement to media that the Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) & People's Defence Forces had "bombed & destroyed" Gokteik bridge.

Another statement by the junta said the bridge had been "exploded with mines".
Standing 102 metres above a gorge, the Gokteik Viaduct is the highest bridge in Myanmar & was tallest railway trestle in the world when it opened in 1901 during the British colonial era. Videos & photos on social media showed bridge partly collapsed & damaged, bridge connects Mandalay to northern Shan State by rail and draws a number of tourists.

A TNLA spokesperson rejected the accusations said it was the junta that had bombed the bridge. "They, Myanmar army tried to bomb our bases. This morning by using drones. They bombed our troops, but their bomb also hit Gokteik bridge," Lway Yay Oo said. A
nearby towns of Nawnghkio & Kyaukme have seen heavy fighting between the TNLA & the junta in recent weeks. Junta then claimed to have recaptured Nawnghkio in July...

Myanmar junta says historic railway bridge 'bombed, destroyed' - CNA https://share.google/QV170pCbZ3e67KgZT

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Bangladeshi leader demands justice for Rohingya, ‘safe return’ to Myanmar.

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus says justice & security are vital for Rohingya before returning to Myanmar.

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Chinese man sold by teenage lover to Myanmar fraud ring freed after family pays US$48,000‘Lovestruck’ 19-year-old was ‘brainwashed’ be4 suffering regular beatings & ‘slapping’ which led to deafness. China will hear a case involving a 17-yr-old girl accused of selling her 19-yrr-old boyfriend to a scam hub. Myanmar for 100,000 yuan (US$14,000), man, known as Huang, was released by scam ring in June after his family paid 350,000 yuan (US$48,000). He was held for nearly 4-mths, during time he are frequent beated, leading to deafness. The case aroused widespread attention on mainland social media as Huang’s sister shared her bro's plight online, Xiaoxiang Morning Herald reported.

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Chinese man sold by teenage lover to Myanmar fraud ring freed after family pays >US$48,000 
‘Lovestruck’ 19-yr-old was ‘brainwashed’ be4 suffering regular beatings & ‘slapping’ which led to deafness. China will hear a case involving a 17-yr-old girl accused of selling her 19-yrr-old boyfriend to a scam hub. Myanmar for 100,000 yuan (US$14,000), man, known as Huang, was released by scam ring in June after his family paid 350,000 yuan (US$48,000). He was held for nearly 4-mths, during time he are frequent beated, leading to deafness. The case aroused widespread attention on mainland social media as Huang’s sister shared her bro's plight online, Xiaoxiang Morning Herald reported.

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This is great news. The evil military junta min Ong Lai wil be toppled very soon. He shd be brought to trial for killing so many innocent civilians, just the Khmer rouges of Cambodia.

Thai grants work rights to Myanmar refugees in landmark move, UN says it welcomed as a possible model for other SE Asian countries to adopt more sustainable, rights-based policies toward refugees. Meanwhile junta kills 12, injures 21 in airstrike on Mrauk-U. The Arakan Army, who controls town, called attack a war crime & vowed to “do what must do. Civilian shot dead, 3 injured by junta soldiers in Hpakant. Troops reportedly fired off happening their rifles recklessly while marching through a village on their way to reinforce a garrison at...way to reinforce a garrison at a nearby base amid ongoing clashes.

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KNU Denounces Myanmar Junta’s Election as Unlawful, Illegitimate

The Karen resistance group warned those planning to participate in the vote against becoming “historical accomplices” to dictatorship. Myanmar’s Parallel Govt Incapable of Effective Reform.

August 27, 2025. Myanmar Junta Convoy Battles Way Into Pauk After 84 Days of Resistance Attacks.

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KNU Denounces Myanmar Junta’s Election as Unlawful, Illegitimate
The Karen resistance group warned those planning to participate in vote against becoming “historical accomplices” to dictatorship. Note: Myanmar’s Parallel Govt Incapable of Effective Reform.

August 27, 2025. Myanmar Junta Convoy Battles Way Into Pauk After 84 Days of Resistance Attacks.

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