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Western volunteers join the battle against Myanmar’s military regime

Travelling independently to Southeast Asia, they say they were inspired by the bravery of the anti-coup fighters.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/17...ary-regime

Evil AMTK! 

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In Myanman, the Myanmar’s military regime

I'm(suam) thinking of newer new weapon. They (no money), what weapon they used ahh. lehh,,?.

https://youtu.be/u1HVNUVC1B4?si=ReZW68KQrZKX3djw

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Myanmar Junta Bombs Magwe Monastery
Monastery in Saw Township.

A Kyi Pan Malun is in resistance-held territory about 12km northeast of Kyaukhtu town on the Pakokku road. 

The area was without internet and phone connections in the days b4 the Myanmar’s military regime airstrike. Residents say internet blackouts often precede airstrikes..

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New Myanmar is emerging from conflict and climate change. Ethnic armies will not accept reimposition of centralized state.

Karen National Liberation Army troops in Myawaddy on April 15: Ethnic armies will not be so willing to give up hard-won battlefield achievements.  © Reuters

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New Myanmar is emerging from conflict and climate change. Ethnic armies will not accept reimposition of centralized state.

‘As nowhere to go’: Here, the Rohingya face arson attacks in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. Rohingya, targeted by the Myanmar military in 2017, are caught in the middle as the Arakan Army and military battle in the western state.

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Myanmar’s KIA Claims Big Gains in Lightning Kachin Offensive.

Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and allies have turned their focus to a junta’s battalion headquarters in Waingmaw, Kachin State, after a dozen outposts in the township fell to a lightning weekend offensive, according to a KIA statement.

The advance places the ethnic army closer to the state capital of Myitkyina, which lies just across the Irrawaddy River from Waingmaw town.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/mya...nsive.html

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The IrrawaddyH- ome  News  Burma
Myanmar’s BGF: A Family-Run Criminal Enterprise With Friends Across Asia

Myanmar’s BGF: A Family-Run Criminal Enterprise With Friends Across Asia. The Myanmar junta-allied Karen Border Guard Force (BGF) has built a transnational network of illegal and abusive businesses, including cyber scam parks, with companies and individuals from Myanmar, Malaysia, Thailand and other Asian countries committing international crimes with total impunity while enriching militia’s ruling family and their associates.

The organized criminal activities committed by the BGF and its associates are revealed in the latest report by Justice for Myanmar, a covert group of activists campaigning for justice and accountability for the people of Myanmar.

JFM’s investigation into the BGF (also known as Karen National Army)’s corporate structure and regional network provides new details into militia’s involvement in illegal businesses like online scams, illegal casinos and illegal online gambling in Myanmar’s Karen State on the Thai border.

The investigation also reveals the central role that BGF leader Colonel Saw Chit Thu (aka San Myint) and his children play in Karen BGF/KNA companies. In April, the BGF helped Myanmar junta troops return to Myawaddy after the border town was temporarily liberated by the Karen National Liberation Army and their allied resistance forces.

By distributing shares between family members, Saw Chit Thu’s family controls six Karen BGF businesses and has a minority stake in two notorious cyber scam parks: Apollo Park and Yulong Bay Park in Karen State on the Thai border.

Family businesses
Since forming an alliance with Myanmar military in 2010 to form the Border Guard Force, Saw Chit Thu, his family members and associates have benefited from material support provided by the Myanmar military and space to build their lucrative criminal businesses.

The Myanmar army in return has benefited through revenue from BGF organized crime. The BGF is said to enrich the Myanmar army with some 50 percent of the $192 million earned by the BGF annually from the Shwe Kokko Project, another transnational organized crime hub developed by the BGF in partnership with She Zhijinag near Myawaddy in Karen State. She Zhijinag was arrested in Thailand in 2022 on an international warrant and is awaiting extradition to China to answer charges of running illegal gambling operations.

Saw Chit Thu holds shares and directorships in at least five BGF companies and is able to control key militia enterprises with his family, despite past claims that he is merely a “consultant”. His two sons, Saw Htoo Eh Moo, 32, and Saw Chit Chit, 28, both hold the rank of major in the BGF. Saw Htoo Eh Moo is heavily engaged in BGF businesses, holding shares and directorships in nine Karen BGF companies and joint ventures, including two cyber scam parks: Apollo Park and Yulong Bay.

Saw Chit Chit is active in military operations alongside the junta, having commanded Karen BGF battalions in operations against resistance forces. Saw Chit Chit also holds shares and directorships in at least five Karen BGF/KNA businesses.

Saw Chit Chit in Shwe Kokko in 2022 / Thaung Yin FC Facebook. Saw Chit Thu’s daughter, Nan Hnin Nandar Aye, 26, holds shares and directorships in at least four Karen BGF businesses. 

She studied at TMC Academy Singapore and the University of Northampton in the United Kingdom, where she graduated from with a business and management degree. Nan Hnin Nandar Aye graduates from TMC Academy Singapore in 2017. / TMC Academy Facebook

Saw Chit Thu’s wife, Nan Khin Hla Thu.
She is involved in some family’s business ops, media posts, says she does not hold shares or directorships in companies. Justice for Myanmar could identify. She also benefits from proceeds of Karen BGF criminal activities. Shareholdings of Saw Chit Thu & his three children are combined, the family owns 50% or more of 6 Karen BGF businesses, based on 2022 records from Myanmar corporate registry, b4 junta restricted access.

There are two other key high ranking BGF members in the militia’s business network.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/mya...-asia.html

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Kachin Independence Army (KIA) 

They stronghold of Laiza was hit by airstrikes late Tuesday night, hours after the group and its allies captured a junta army battalion HQ near Kachin State capital Myitkyina. 3 bombs were dropped on Laiza about 11pm Tuesday, KIA info officer Col. Naw Bu.“We’re investigating to find out where they fell, as happened late at night,” he said, unknown if any of those bombs landed across border in China. a video posted by local media outlet Kachin Waves appears to show warning flares being fired as junta aircraft approached Chinese territory.

The attacks began about 3 hrs after KIA-led forces took control of Light Infantry Battalion 321 base near village of Shwe Nyaungbin in Waingmaw Township. The Myanmar military launches airstrikes on Laiza as KIA moves closer to Myitkyina, attacks were prompted by the capture of a key junta base near Waingmaw, a town located next to the Kachin State capital.

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Myanmar’s KIA Claims Big Gains in Lightning Kachin Offensive. While Myanmar’s junta captured a Civilian Defense and Security Organization of Myaung camp in Myaung Township, Sagaing Region, on Thursday.

Around 90 troops from the Nat Yay Kan village camp in neighboring Chaung-U Township attempted to occupy outpost, according to the resistance. Civilian Defense Security Organization of Myaung troops during an operation. Myanmar’s junta captured a Civilian Defense and Security Organization of Myaung camp in Myaung Township, Sagaing Region, on Thursday.

Around 90 troops from the Nat Yay Kan village camp in neighboring Chaung-U Township attempted to occupy the outpost, according to the resistance group.

Others news: -- Cross-Border Trade Plunges 48% in Myanmar as Ethnic Armies Seize Control
Cross-Border Trade Plunges 48% in Myanmar as Ethnic Armies Seize Control (MAY 24, 2024)

Ko Nway Oo said the Nat Yay Kan troops were responsible for the massacre of 32 villagers during their raid on nearby Lethtoketaw village in Myinmu Township this month.

In retaliation, resistance groups conducted drone strikes on the junta’s Chaung-U base on Friday, although no details about damage known. On May 17, around 300 junta troops destroyed a Yesagyo Revolution base in Yesagyo Township in Magwe Township, adjacent to Myaung Township, the group said.

Motorcycles and other vehicles were destroyed, the group said troops also shot dead seven civilian detainees after using them as guides to reach the Yesagyo Revolution camp, the group told the media.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/mya...-base.html

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Some 45,000 Rohingya flee amid allegations of beheading, burning in Myanmar. UN rights chief Volker Turk urges Bangladesh, other countries ‘to provide effective protection’ to the latest refugees

Rohingya: Some 45,000 Rohingya flee amid allegations of beheading, burning in Myanmar
UN rights chief Volker Turk urges Bangladesh, other countries ‘to provide effective protection’ to the latest refugees.

Rohingya refugees look through the debris of their houses charred by a fire at the Ukhia camp in Cox's Bazar on May 24, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
More than a million Rohingya have already fled Rakhine State, including hundreds of thousands in 2017, and most have been staying as refugees in 

Bangaladesh's Cox's Bazar [AFP]
Escalating violence in conflict-torn Myanmar’s Rakhine State has forced another 45,000 minority Rohingya to flee, the United Nations warned, amid allegations of beheadings, killings and burnings of property.

Clashes have rocked Rakhine State since the Arakan Army (AA) rebels attacked forces of the ruling military government in November, ending a ceasefire that had largely held since a military coup in 2021. The fighting has caught in the middle. Muslim minority group, long considered outsiders by the majority Buddhist residents, either from the govt or the rebel side.

The AA says it is fighting for more autonomy for the ethnic Rakhine population in the state, which is also home to an estimated 600,000 members of the persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority, who have chosen to remain in the country.

More than a million Rohingya have taken shelter in neighbouring Bangladesh after fleeing Rakhine, including hundreds of thousands in 2017 during earlier crackdown by military, now the subject of a UN genocide court case.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/25...in-myanmar

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Junta captured a Civilian Organization at Myaung camp in Myaung Township, near to Sagaing Region from Nat Yay Kan village camp township resistance said.

Cross-Border Trade Plunges 48% in Myanmar as Ethnic Armies Seize Control

https://www.irrawaddy.com/business/cross...ntrol.html

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‘We Shot Dead All People’: Survivors Recount Horror of Myanmar Monastery Massacre*

The crowd of people that had assembled to attend makeshift funeral rites in a forest in central Myanmar’s Sagaing Region fled in panic as a burst of gunfire threw the memorial service into chaos.
Residents of Lethtoketaw Village in Myinmu Township holding funeral for 33 relatives were slaughtered during a junta raid in second week of May. Junta soldiers also incinerated the village, forcing residents to hide in the nearby forest.

As they were holding the Buddhist funeral rites for their slain relatives, they heard a burst of gunfire from the direction of a junta checkpoint in Gwepintaw Village on Monywa-Mandalay Road, which is 1.6 km from Lethtoketaw.

Ko Nyan, who is in charge of Lethtoketaw Village’s defense team, said: “People fled in panic as soon as they heard the gunshots. Even the monks fled.”

Having already witnessing the slaughter of their family members, the Lethtoketaw villagers were filled with both anger and fear. Lethtoketaw is a large village with over 700 households close to Mandalay-Monywa Road and railroad.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/we-...sacre.html

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Myanmar’s Military Blocks Escape Routes in Thandwe as Rakhine War Intensifies. Myanmar’s military regime has blocked roads in Thandwe Township, southern Rakhine State, preventing residents from fleeing amid fierce clashes between its troops and the Arakan Army (AA).

The travel restrictions came shortly after the AA’s political wing, the United League of Arakan, issued a statement on Monday last week urging civilians and international organizations to evacuate Buthidaung, Maungdaw and Thandwe townships as fighting with the junta escalates.

They responded by blocking residents of Thandwe town from leaving along Thandwe-Gwa-Yangon road & issued order to shoot on sight villagers who flee along major river route to Thandwe town.
Villagers in Shwe Hlay, 32 kilometers north of Thandwe town, are using Sinkaung-Kinmaw river route to flee fighting that has been raging in their area for the past month.

The exodus was triggered when nine residents of Lin Thi village in Shwe Hlay were killed by an unprovoked junta artillery strike on May 14. The regime evacuated staff nearby Tha Htay Chaung hydropower project by road in early May. Regime troops early May, inflicting civilian casualties and property damage, said locals.

The fighting has displaced tens of thousands of residents from at least 10 villages in Shwe Hlay and around the Tha Htay Chaung hydropower project. They are taking shelter in Thandwe town and villages so far untouched by the clashes, said residents. The regime is permitting only sick residents and caregivers to leave Thandwe.

For permission to leave, residents say they must submit a form detailing their names, race, religion, address, the bus they are taking, along with medical records, hospital note, copies of their residency certificate, and police clearance, to the township General Administration Department at least two days before travel.

In Thandwe’s popular beach town of Ngapali, the ward administration office closed on Friday after a large crowd of residents applied for travel permission, said a resident. “Some of my friends could not leave Thandwe as the administrator refused to give approval,” she said.

The Irrawaddy’s calls to junta-appointed Rakhine State govt spokesman Hla Thein is unanswered.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/mya...ifies.html

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Very nice name they gave. Civil War. But in Gaza, they called it the Israel-Hamas war or the Israel-Palestine war or simply the Gaza war. How come the UN cannot treat the Rohingya people like they treat the Palestinian people?

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Very nice name they gave.  Civil War.  But in Gaza,  they called it the Israel-Hamas war or the Israel-Palestine war or simply the Gaza war.  How come the UN cannot treat the Rohingya people like they treat the Palestinian people?

You go to UN to complain lor! 

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Rohingya Forced to Fight Alongside Myanmar Army Tormentors. Bangladesh—Rohingya mother Sofura Begum has spent years in a squalid refugee camp after fleeing Myanmar. Now her teenage son has been taken to fight alongside the troops that put her there.

Militant Rohingya groups in Bangladesh have forcibly recruited hundreds of young Rohingya men and boys to battle the Arakan Army (AA), a rebel outfit in neighboring Myanmar that has won a string of victories against the junta there.
Myanmar Junta Appoints Training Chief as Deputy Defense Minister.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/myanmars-...ntors.html

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KIA Launches Offensive to Drive Myanmar Military From Southern Tip of Kachin State. The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and its allies on resumed attacking three junta battalions that serve as a buffer to a military command center in northern Myanmar’s Kachin State, ethnic army’s spokesman Colonel Naw Bu said.

“We restarted the offensive using heavy artillery in Mansi and Momauk [townships] this morning,” Colonel Naw Bu told The Irrawaddy on Tuesday. “We are exchanging shelling with junta troops in Bhamo [township].” Mansi & Momauk are located to t)south & east of Bhamo, respectively. Junta’s 21st Military Ops Command center is based in Bhamo town, near southern tip of Kachin State.

KIA & allied People’s Defense Forces (PDFs) are attacking 3 light infantry battalions in Mansi & Momauk. The 3 battalions provide a buffer to the 21st Military Ops Command ctr in Bhamo town.

The KIA and allied PDFs attacked Momauk and Mansi towns on May 7, seizing police stations and junta outposts, but were unable to capture battalion headquarters. Control of Kachin State’s southernmost townships is critical for the KIA’s effort to protect its headquarters, control roads to China and prevent the junta from reinforcing or supplying its bases elsewhere in the state. Since launching an offensive on junta targets along the road linking the state capital Myitkina and Bhamo town in March, the KIA and its allies have pushed junta troops into Bhamo, in an effort to isolate them there.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-again...state.html

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Continue for above...The regime is hitting back against latest coordinated attack on its battalions in Mansi & Momauk with artillery, drones & fighter jets. Junta soldiers who fled from other bases in southern Kachin State, particularly near the border with China, have joined the battalions in Mansi and Momauk.

Col Naw Bu said KIA and its allies face major challenges in the two townships. “First, the use of air support is heavy. Second, there are many of soldiers there,” all junta soldiers who fled hilltop outposts has joined other battalions in Mansi & Momauk. Those battalions are close to Bhamo can be easily reinforced. They are using drones & heavy artillery,” he explained. It'll take time to seize the battalions, the colonel said.

Military analyst were estimating, each battalion in Mansi & Momauk has about 500 troops. The KIA will not able to seize Bhamo relatively easily if its not easy to defeat all 3 battalions, Its difficult attacking battalion HQ, their camp compounds are huge & fortified with trenches & bunkers. If Mansi & Momauk fall, anti-regime forces will attack Bhamo from east & south, besides command center, Bhamo town is home to frontline HQ of 88th Light Infantry Division, Artillery Battalion 366 & other combat support.

Many residents have fled Mansi and Momauk to Bhamo town. Junta artillery strikes have inflicted civilian casualties. 3 residents of a village in Momauk were killed by shelling on April 22, fighting is mainly taking place in Mansi & Momauk, shells have sometimes landed on villages in Bhamo Town, we can hear junta battalions in Bhamo shelling Mansi & Momauk. People told The Irrawaddy. Monday.

Junta troops have blockaded sections of roads between Bhamo & Mansi, and between Bhamo & Momauk, making it difficult to send injured people to Bhamo for hospital care.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-again...state.html

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Karen Forces Clash With Myanmar Military Along Strategic Highway to Myawaddy. The Irrawaddy

Home  News  War Against KNLA troops and allied forces take a break on a forested track. 

Junta troops clashed with the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) and People’s Defense Force (PDF) allies along the Asian Highway linking Kawkareik with the border trade hub of Myawaddy in Karen State on Sunday. Junta reinforcements advancing to Myawaddy have been stuck on the mountainous Kawkareik-Myawaddy road near Taw Naw Waterfall for more than two weeks despite air and artillery support.

Kawkareik is located just 42 kilometers west of Myawaddy but the two towns are separated by the Dawna Mountains. Junta launched Ops Aung Zeya on April 11 to retake Myawaddy after KNLA & its allies had seized township’s last remaining regime base a week earlier. But junta forces recaptured Myawaddy town with help from the Karen Border Guard Force (BGF) on April 23.

Operation Aung Zeya counteroffensive comprises around 1,000 troops equipped with armored vehicles, tanks, and artillery. Deputy junta chief Soe Win is overseeing the operation. Kawkareik and Myawaddy are located on either side of the Dawna Mountains. Residents on the outskirts of Myawaddy town reported hearing loud shelling on Sunday night and Monday morning.

Karen BGF spokesman Major Naing Maung Zaw said: “I heard clashed near a hill near Taw Naw Waterfall. Aung Zeya troops fired multiple rocket launchers from Dawna Range. B'cos of wind direction, people from Mae Sot heard the clashes as if they were happening in Myawaddy.” A Myawaddy resident with ties to KNLA said regime forces Sunday night shelled Mel Kanel & Atwin Kwin Kalay villages in Myawaddy Township where thought the KNLA and allies were based.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-again...waddy.html

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Very nice name they gave.  Civil War.  But in Gaza,  they called it the Israel-Hamas war or the Israel-Palestine war or simply the Gaza war.  How come the UN cannot treat the Rohingya people like they treat the Palestinian people?

Fighting Intensifies on Myanmar’s Border With Bangladesh By The Irrawaddy.

Fighting has intensified along Rakhine State’s border with Bangladesh in southern Maungdaw Township as the Arakan Army (AA) attacks border guard police positions to seize the entire township in the state’s northwest, residents of the township say.


They said the ethnic army is targeting border guard police positions in the township’s south after seizing northern Maungdaw.

“The AA controls all of northern Maungdaw. Fighting is taking place in southern Maungdaw now. Three [junta] positions have fallen over the past few days,” a resident of the township said on Wednesday, adding that two junta bases – Mawyawaddy and Myin Lut – “are on the brink of falling.”

The base of Border Guard Police Battalion No. 5 on the outskirts of Maungdaw town in Myo Thu Gyi ward is the only key junta base that the ethnic army has yet to attack, the source said, adding that junta troops are still deployed in Maungdaw town.

The AA seized two small bases near the border guard police battalion headquarters near Kyauk Panu village earlier this week, and is attacking other battalion headquarters in Inn Din, Myin Lut and Mawyawaddy villages, residents said.

The headquarters of Border Guard Police Battalion No. 9 near Myint Lut village on the Maungdaw-Agnumaw Road occupies land that had been home to Muslim villages before they were razed during communal violence in 2017.

The headquarters of Border Guard Police Battalion No. 6 is located in Inn Din village where Myanmar military soldiers massacred 10 Rohingya people in 2017.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-again...adesh.html

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“The message that Asean should convey must come from a unified voice.“ Failure to act, when there is ample cause to believe that a member state is violating the spirit of the Asean Charter, is a dereliction of our moral duty,” he said in his keynote address at the 37th Asia-Pacific Roundtable, organised by the Institute of Strategic and International Studies Malaysia here yesterday.
Anwar said Asean must facilitate and offer assistance to Myanmar through various methods, but this could only be done when the various parties in the country are ready.

Myanmar Junta Attacks Kill Over 60 Rakhine Villagers By The Irrawaddy JUNE 7, 2024 
The AA’s spokesman said the deaths and injuries could exceed 100 after regime naval, air force and army attacks on Singaung village.

Arakan Army Inches Closer to Seizing Airport Near Myanmar’s Premier Beachi as fghting continued near Thandwe Airport in southern Rakhine State on Friday as the Arakan Army continued its offensive to seize the town next to the most valuable beach in Myanmar, Ngapali, local residents said.

Clashes that started on Sunday about 1.6 kilometers north of the airport in Thandwe Township steadily moving closer to it as the week progressed.

 https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-again...beach.html

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The health care system in Myanmar is inadequate and poorest sections of the population have no or insufficient access to medical care. In order to be able to react quickly and situation on the streets too, in Myanmar is chaotic: health crisis, coup and – as a result – there is extremely rising food prices very prices...

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The health care system in Myanmar is inadequate and poorest sections of the population have no or insufficient access to medical care. In order to be able to react quickly and situation on the streets too, in Myanmar is chaotic: health crisis, coup and – as a result – there is extremely rising food prices very prices...

It is for peace, more than a mere bastard child of history that speaks of “peace” and “rights”.

While engaged in the elimination of both peace and war. All those have had their periods of fame and infamy and....all.

(thankfully) hope it disappeared into the dumpster of history and gave a hope to peace can be successful in this world.

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Myanmar Junta Attacks Kill Over 60 Rakhine Villagers. More than 100 people are feared dead with at least 60 deaths confirmed as Myanmar junta’s navy, army and air force have launched a fourth day of attacks on Singaung village in Thandwe Township, Rakhine State, township residents said.

It is the second massacre in less than two weeks in Rakhine State after at least 76 civilians were killed by regime troops in Byian Phyu village in Sittwe Township near the Rakhine State capital over alleged links with the Arakan Army (AA)

More than 100 people are feared dead with at least 60 deaths confirmed as Myanmar junta’s navy, army and air force have launched a fourth day of attacks on Singaung village in Thandwe Township, Rakhine State, township residents said.

It is the second massacre in less than two weeks in Rakhine State after at least 76 civilians were killed by regime troops in Byian Phyu village in Sittwe Township near the Rakhine State capital over alleged links with the Arakan Army (AA). As
Arakan Army Inches Closer to Seizing Airport Near Myanmar’s Premier Beach.

Naval shelling, army shelling and airstrikes have been used against Singaung since Tuesday. The village is where the Thandwe River reaches the Bay of Bengal. The villagers were accused of having links to the AA, whose troops have reportedly entered the village.

Since late April, clashes between the AA and regime troops escalating in villages around Thandwe town, which is home to the Ngapali Beach tourist destination.

As of Thursday, the attacks killed around 10 people and destroyed over 200 homes in the village. Residents said the regime continued the attacks on Friday. “Around 120 people have been killed. So far 65 have been buried,” a Thandwe source told The Irrawaddy. AA spokesman Khine Thuka told The Irrawaddy on Friday evening that more than 60 people were confirmed dead with the number expected to rise.

“The regime’s navy and army shelled the village non-stop and fighter jets are launching airstrikes. The number of the dead and wounded could be more than 100,” he added. The impact of Friday’s attacks is not known yet.

In Rakhine State, the junta has suffered a series of defeats and has lost a large amount of territory since the AA launched its offensive in November last year. The armed group has seized 10 of the state’s 17 townships and is in control of much of northern Rakhine.

Recently, the fighting has shifted southward to Thandwe Township and continued near Thandwe Airport on Friday as the AA continued its offensive to seize Thandwe town next to the beach.

The Rakhine media reported that junta troops had taken positions inside the airport and the surrounding area.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/mya...agers.html

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Thandwe struggles as fighting nears, Myanmar army blocks roads and waterways. The town’s remaining residents, already facing the threats of shelling and forced conscription, say that travel bans, shortages, and blackouts have dealt an irreparable blow to their livelihoods.

Streets at coastal town of Ngapali on Bay of Bengal nearly empty on Friday as town’s inhabitants woke upto sounds of artillery fire.
The battle seemed to be very intense yesterday. There were nonstop sounds of artillery throughout day & night. Nearly all shops in Gyeik Taw Ward closed, and we couldn’t find any vendors or shops to sell us breakfast this morning,” a resident of the ward said on Friday.

With banks, shops, and restaurants having closed and civilians seeking refuge elsewhere, the town is now still and nearly silent, locals said.

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Fresh fighting in northern Shan State displaces thousands. Clashes broke out again in Mongmit, the site of arson attacks and battles between the military and forces led by the Kachin Independence Army that reduced parts of the town to rubble earlier this year.

Thousands were forced to flee their homes outside the town of Mongmit, northern Shan State fighting between the junta and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) resumed there on Tuesday.

Local civilians said the battle broke out at around 6pm near Man Hpwei and Lel Gyi villages, approximately four miles east of Mongmit Township’s urban centre, and that the two sides fought fiercely for around an hour.

“The people fled from the villages. Fearing that there would be another battle in the town, half the town’s population fled again. The military forces are still there, so people don’t dare stay in the town," a local civilian said.

On January 18 of this year, the Kachin Independence Army ( KIA) and its allies launched attacks on junta forces in Mongmit Township, which is adjacent to Mabein, Manton, Mongngawt, and Namhsan townships in northern Shan State and adjacent to. . .

https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/fresh-fi...thousands/

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Junta Boss Gifts Mercedes to Senior Monks. 

Min Aung Hlaing, proclaims himself protector of Buddhism in trampled on yet another core Buddhist value. Sunday he handed over Mercedes & other vehicles to senior Buddhist monks at a ceremony in Yangon, vehicles are intended as “national-level vehicles” for members of State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee, committee of Myanmar’s highest Buddhist authority, is known by Burmese acronym Ma Ha Na. Min Aung Hlaing, explaining purpose of his donation.

Ceremony concluded senior monks including Ma Ha Na chairman Thanlyin Min Kyaung Sayadaw, the abbot of Thanlyin Min Kyaung Monastery, sprinkling scented water on the cars and leaving the venue in their new wheels. Thanlyin Min Kyaung Sayadaw became Ma Ha Na chair in March after his predecessor Bhamo Sayadaw passed away in March last year.

Min Aung Hlaing offers a Mercedes to a Ma Ha Na monk on June 9, 2024. / MWD
Buddhism views material desires as the root of human suffering, but high-profile monks, especially those with ties to the regime, are amassing wealth even as the Buddhist-majority country burns in the midst of a civil war.

Sunday’s donation sparked outrage on social media, as millions across Myanmar go hungry and have their lives turned upside down thanks to the junta’s indiscriminate attacks on civilian populations. It also comes close on the heels of two recent massacres in which dozens of villagers were killed in Sagaing Region and Rakhine State.

Ma Ha Na has done virtually nothing to stop Min Aung Hlaing’s campaign of terror against Myanmar people over the past three years. The sole exception was on one occasion when it spoke out against the junta’s brutal crackdown on peaceful protesters in the aftermath of the 2021 coup—and that was just a request that Min Aung Hlaing exercise restraint.

Following in the footstep of his predecessors, Min Aung Hlaing has sought to establish his legitimacy through Buddhism. One way he tries to do this is by bribing monks with honorary titles, status and cash.

Among the monks who have formed beneficial partnerships with the regime is Sitagu Sayadaw, who has become the chief of the Shwe Kyin sect, one of Myanmar’s nine Buddhist monastic sects, with Min Aung Hlaing’s blessing.

Similarly, Ashin Cekinda has been made the head of the International Theravada Buddhist Missionary University.

At the same time, Min Aung Hlaing is benefitting from his other alliances among the Buddhist clergy. Pauk Sayadaw is running a propaganda campaign on social media in support of his regime, and nationalist monk U Wasawa is recruiting for Min Aung Hlaing.

Despite having reconsecrated several pagodas since the 2021 coup, Min Aung Hlaing never hesitates to order air raids on monasteries where he suspects resistance fighters are hiding. Many displaced people have died in those attacks. Countless religious buildings including monasteries and churches have been damaged.

Yet, Ma Ha Na has remained silent.

It was also silent when a monk who served as the secretary of the Madaya Township Sangha Nayaka Committee in Mandalay Region was abducted and killed by the regime in late 2023. His body was dumped by a roadside.

‘Piles of Human Flesh’: Inside the Myanmar Junta Wedding Day Massacre.

Myanmar Junta Repatriates Defeated at Least 143 Troops from Bangladesh.

Myanmar Junta Repatriates Defeated at Least 143 Troops from Bangladesh.

Myanmar Air Force Strike on Monastery Kills 13 Including Abbot, Monks

According to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, the regime has detained 106 monks, seven of whom were killed.

[Gemstar]

This junta is a great hypocrite pretending to be kind. Yet, killed so many innocent unarmed civilians. Stil got cheeks to portray to hv great Buddhism values.

[Tee tiong huat]

This junta is a great hypocrite pretending to be kind. Yet, killed so many innocent unarmed civilians. Stil got cheeks to portray to hv great Buddhism values.

Yes, you have a good point to tell all here, all of us. Those Junta Boss Gifts Mercedes to Senior Monks is a not a gifts, they are expensive gifts too expensive making a   laugh it good.


Min Aung Hlaing, proclaims himself protector of Buddhism...OMG.