YANGON—Myanmar’s junta on Tuesday slammed UN’s “one-sided allegations” about human rights record, said it received no official communication regarding recent appointment of special envoy to the conflict-torn country. Southeast Asian nation has been in turmoil since military seized power in Feb 2021, ending a brief democratic experiment sparking clashes with ethnic rebel groups & anti-coup fighters.
It criticized junta’s “stranglehold” on humanitarian assistance, which it said was exacerbating a crisis that has displaced more than 2.5 million people.
That resolution “included unfounded and one-sided allegations,” the junta’s Foreign Affairs Ministry said in a statement published in the Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper.
“Therefore, Myanmar categorically rejects the resolution.” Statement also said UN had made “no official communication to Myanmar” regarding last week’s appointment of a new UN special envoy to the country, former Australian foreign minister Julie Bishop. On Tuesday, a spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that, as the appointment was made through a General Assembly resolution, it “doesn’t follow the same consultative processes as Security Council resolutions.”
“I think the official announcement that we put out on Friday is an official announcement. So we informed everybody that the appointment had been made,” spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters. The position of UN special envoy to Myanmar has been vacant since the departure of Noeleen Heyzer in June 2023. The Singaporean sociologist had been tasked with urging the military to engage in political dialogue with opposing groups and end a bloody crackdown it launched after toppling the government of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
Heyzer visited Myanmar in 2022 and met junta chief Min Aung Hlaing and other top military officials, in a move criticized by rights groups as lending legitimacy to the generals. But she was denied a meeting with detained democracy figurehead Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and later irked junta officials, who accused her of issuing a “one-sided statement” of what had been discussed.
She later vowed not to visit the country again unless she was allowed to meet Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who is currently serving a 27-year jail sentence handed down by a junta court.
Myanmar’s UN envoy U Kyaw Moe Tun was appointed by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s govt & has refused to leave his post despite junta’s insistence that he no longer represents the country
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/myanmars-...ecord.html
Good riddance of the evil military junta. Junta armies are only good in killing unarmed civilians. When facing the fearless rebels, they are hopeless and useless.
(12-04-2024, 11:19 AM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Singapore ‘tightens screws’ on Myanmar generals with arms trade crackdown. 
SingUN says Russia, China & India continue to send weapons to Myanmar as the Singapore
route is blocked.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/12...-crackdown
Bangkok, Thailand – Singapore has responded to United Nations pressure by cracking down on sales of weapons through its territory to Myanmar, delivering a serious blow to the embattled generals, who seized power in a coup more than three years ago.
Thomas Andrews, the UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar, told Al Jazeera that the city state’s government “immediately responded” to his 2023 report that found Singapore-based entities had become the third largest source of weapons materials to the military and were “critical” to its weapons procurement.
Myanmar troops retreat to Thai border bridge after days of fighting
Anti-coup forces claim control of key Myanmar border town
Myanmar anti-coup forces claim ‘success’ in Naypyidaw drone attack
UN condemns ‘reprehensible’ use of mines in Myanmar as deaths triple.
(12-04-2024, 11:19 AM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Singapore ‘tightens screws’ on Myanmar generals with arms trade crackdown. UN says Russia, China & India continue to send weapons to Myanmar as the Singapore
route is blocked.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/12...-crackdown
Russia and China wil always be helping the rogue and tyrant junta. Yet, keep claiming they are neutral.
(12-04-2024, 04:48 PM)Gemstar Wrote: [ -> ]Russia and China wil always be helping the rogue and tyrant junta. Yet, keep claiming they are neutral.
You got info from CIA ah?
Jilat,,, still want to fight.
Karen National Union announces plans to replace regime administration in Myawaddy the ethnic armed and governance organisation said.
critical trade hub of Myawaddy, on Myanmar’s border with Thailand. We will take decisive measures to abolish the regime’s administration and replace it with our own. Two days before last week’s surprise resistance drone attack on regime targets in Naypyitaw, Vice Senior General Soe Win was at the Ba Htoo military academy in southern Shan State meeting with officers and rank-and-file troops.
As army chief, Vice Snr-Gen Soe Win makes regular visits to military command centers and schools to boost morale.
Also this week, the regime’s second-in-command felt rumble of war, fleeing troops missed their plane, and a deputy minister landed in hot water.
According to junta’s news media, Soe Win, who holds positions of Vice Chairman of State Administration Council & Deputy Defense Services Commander-in-Chief (Army), met infantry platoon commander trainees & officer cadets in Aung San Hall of the Tatmadaw (Army) Combat Training School (Ba Htoo) on the morning of Tuesday, April 2 and delivered a speech.
Rebels raise flag at seized Myanmar base, commander confident of retaining control.
MYAWADDY, Myanmar - Myanmar resistance fighters on April 15 burned the flag used by the military govt and raised their own banner at a newly captured army base, as a senior rebel commander vowed they would hold the strategic area near the Thai border.
The celebrations by fighters linked to the armed ethnic Karen National Union (KNU) came less than a week after the capture of Myawaddy, a key trading town on Thailand's western border.
Myawaddy's fall marked another battlefield loss for powerful military regime that seized control in 2021 from an elected govt led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who remains in detention.
KNU's national flag is raised after burning Myanmar's 
national flag @Myanmar military base at Thingyan Nyi Naung village on the outskirts of Myawaddy.
MYAWADDY, Myanmar - Myanmar resistance fighters on April 15 raised their own banner at a newly captured army base, as a senior rebel commander vowed they would hold the strategic area near the Thai border.
Celebrations fighters linked to armed ethnic Karen National Union (KNU) came less than a week after capturing of Myawaddy, a key trading town on Thailand's western border. This
Myawaddy's fall marked another battlefield loss for military regime seized control in 2021 from elected govt led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who remains in detention.
Simmering anger against the junta has turned into a nationwide armed resistance movement that is now increasingly operating in coordination with established ethnic rebel groups to challenge the military across large parts of Myanmar.
Since October 2023, the army has lost control of key areas near its borders with both India and China to a loose coalition of allied resistance forces. Loss of Myawaddy at the Thai border could further dent trade revenue for the junta.
A rare in-person interview, Colonel Nadah Htoo, a Ops commander of Brigade 6 of KNU's military wing captured army base use by junta forces have tried & failed to retake area. "They have been unsuccessful in breakthrough twice now," he said.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/rebels...ng-control
Myanmar’s Mothers Describe Agony as Embattled Junta Snatches Sons for Military Service
Daw Khin Myint trembles with emotion as she describes young men lined up at No.1 Advanced Military Training School in Yangon’s Taikkyi Township beneath a banner reading “We welcome good citizens of the country to serve in military.”
Her son was in the queue of individuals aged 18-35 called up for mandatory service. New draftees were forcibly recruited under a newly activated conscription law that covers millions of male and female citizens.
Conscription nightmare haunting parents across country has come true for Daw Khin Myint, who like other mothers cried everyday since her son was forcibly enlisted. “I even wanted to kill myself [than seeing my son drafted],” Daw Khin Myint said, her voice cracking with emotion.
She said the day the ward administrator informed her that her 27-year-old son, who had been working to support his parents, was on military service list was the saddest of her life. “I don’t agree with this. They are doing it against our wishes,” she said, if serves in military, he will probably be killed.”
Military officials took her son for a medical checkup on March 27, saying he would be sent back home after a blood test. Instead, like others he was transported straight to No. 1 Advanced Military Training School.
On discovering that her son was in the first batch of military training scheduled for the opening week of April, the heat of summer paled in comparison to her inner torment.
“I was worried. I can’t eat or sleep,” Daw Khin Myint told the Irrawaddy through tears.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/features/myanm...rvice.html
(17-04-2024, 03:40 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: [ -> ]Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s jailed moved to house arrest. Junta spokesperson says Nobel laureate is among prisoners to be moved out of prison as a precaution. Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from prison to house arrest, according to the military junta.
A spokesperson said the measure was taken due to extremely hot weather and that it was trying to prevent heatstroke among “all those who need necessary precautions, especially elderly prisoners”. It is understood that both Aung San Suu Kyi, 78, and president U Win Myint, 72, have both been moved from prison, though it is not clear where they have been taken.
Both have been held since military seized power in a coup in February 2021, plunging the country into widespread conflict. Concerns has previously been raised about health of both former leaders. U Win Myint was reportedly treated for an unspecified disease in prison in June last year, was fitted with a urinary catheter. In September last year, Aung San Suu Kyi’s son Kim Aris said she had such serious gum disease that she was struggling to eat.
Aung San Suu Kyi has spent nearly two decades under some form of arrest since 1989. Following 2021 coup, she has been convicted of offences ranging from treason & corruption to violations of telecommunications law – charges she denies. In total, she faces 27 years in prison, which means she could be kept in detention until she is more than 100 years old.
The UN security council has called for her release, while the cases have been criticised by rights experts. Very little is known about the proceedings in any of her trials, which cannot be accessed by media or observers.
“If any harm befalls Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and U Win Myint, the Myanmar junta leaders will bear direct responsibility and will be held accountable by the people of Myanmar,” said Dr Sasa, Minister of International Cooperation in the National Unity Government (NUG), which was set up to oppose the junta. The cases against the leaders had nothing to do with rule of law, he added.
He said the junta’s claim that the leaders had been moved in response to heatwaves rang hollow. “We know that Myanmar’s junta leaders have a history of dishonesty. The people of Myanmar deserve to know the true situation regarding their elected leaders,” Sasa said.
Both leaders have been denied family visits and necessary medical treatment, despite their deteriorating health, Sasa said.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/a...says-junta
Yes!. The Weather is mad...
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi Remains in Prison:
By Irrawaddy APRIL 18, 2024
The junta merely said it would take steps to shield elderly prisoners from the heat; there is no evidence to support reports she was moved to house arrest, sources say
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi being used as ‘human shield’, son fears.
LONDON - Myanmar’s detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi was moved from prison to house arrest, possibly to be used by the South-east Asian nation’s ruling junta as a human shield in its conflict with resistance fighters, her son said on April 18.
Ms Suu Kyi has been detained by the Myanmar military since it overthrew her government in a 2021 coup.
The 78-year-old Nobel laureate was held under house arrest for a total of 15 years under a previous junta.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/myanma...-son-fears
War Between Arakan Army And Myanmar Military Enters ‘Critical Phase. The Arakan Army (AA) has steamrolled through Rakhine since it ended its informal ceasefire with Myanmar’s military in the state last November.
Now, it is fighting a battle that will determine the future of Rakhine people, the ethnic army’s spokesperson, Khaing Thukha, told The Irrawaddy.
“This is a critical moment,” he said during an interview about the military situation in Rakhine State and the AA’s progress towards its goal.
Since its founding 15 years ago it has been transformed from a handful of recruits training on a mountaintop in Kachin State into a giant killer.
Now one of the largest and most powerful of the country’s ethnic armies, it has seized most of northern Rakhine State since last November. Its political objective is for Rakhine to be at least a confederate state. It has been 15 years since the AA was formed.
We can say we have made considerable achievements. We are gaining greater momentum and getting closer to our goal. Can others areas AA has seized, and is trying move?. We have total control over Kyauktaw, Mrauk-U, Minbya, Myebon, Ramree, Pauktaw, Ponnagyun, Rathedaung and [Chin State’s] Paletwa townships. We have also seized rural areas in Maungdaw and Buthidaung [where] junta troops are only present in the towns.
It is the same in Kyaukphyu and Sittwe [townships] where we control rural areas. In all the other townships, we control certain areas through various means even though we are not fighting.
AA doing in towns it has seized too.? What next.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/in-person/inte...phase.html
Hundreds of Myanmar Junta Personnel Who Fled Rakhine Clashes Repatriated From Bangladesh....https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/myanmars-crisis-the-world/hundreds-of-myanmar-junta-personnel-who-fled-rakhine-clashes-repatriated-from-bangladesh.html
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Myanmar junta troops, border police and immigration officials who had fled to Bangladesh boarded a Myanmar naval vessel near Cox’s Bazar ahead of repatriation to their home country. Nearly 300 Myanmar junta personnel who fled to Bangladesh amid fighting in Rakhine State were repatriated on Thursday morning, Bangladeshi officials said.
Two Bangladeshi officials told The Irrawaddy that the 288 personnel were sent home on a Myanmar naval ship after being ferried to the vessel from Cox’s Bazar on a tugboat in the morning.
Myawaddy refugees sent back to Myanmar after fleeing to Thailand
Local volunteers who had been supporting people displaced by fighting in the border trade hub say that ‘both countries’ decided on the return of 3,000 recent refugees from two makeshift camps
Thousands of people from Myanmar fled to Thailand to escape fighting in Karen State town of Myawaddy were sent back across the border on Wed, volunteers in one of the makeshift camps they had been staying.
More than 5,000 people in Myawaddy Township initially left their homes in the first week of April amid clashes in the Kawkareik Township village of Thingan Nyinaung, west of Myawaddy, between the junta and forces led by the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA)—the armed wing of the Karen National Union (KNU)—which seized control of the town earlier this month.
On Monday night, citing military sources, AFP reported that the Myanmar junta had retaken to Myawaddy; on Sunday, the KNLA temporarily retreated from the town after attacking junta troops from Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) 275 one day earlier, residents and a KNU spokesperson said.
https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/myawaddy...-thailand/
Karen Troops Capture Another Myanmar Junta Base Near Thai Border. Karen National Union (KNU) and allied resistance forces seized a junta military base and a supply station in Karen State’s Papun Township on April 24, KNU Brigade 5 said in a statement.
The township is on the state’s northern tip, near the border with Thailand.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/kar...order.html
