Myanmar

Fighters from the Karenni National Defence Force, a network of civilian resistance fighters, Karenni organisations and armed groups in Kayah State. (KNDF / Kantarawaddy Times)
Myanmar’s D-Day: what has happened so far?

Acting president of the National Unity Government (NUG), Duwa Lashi La, called for revolt in “every corner of the country” against the regime.
The bodies of prisoners are seen in the back of a vehicle after a riot in the Shwe Bo prison in Sagaing region on May 9, 2019. (Kaung Zaw Hein / AFP)
Prison riot in Sagaing leaves four dead

The unrest in northern Myanmar's Shwe Bo prison began on Wednesday evening, said chief minister Myint Naing.
Shein Latt, John Fredric Todoroki and Ma Shun Le Myat Noe were arrested at the plantation near Mandalay. (CCDAC Myanmar / Faccebook)
American, two Myanmar to remain in jail over contested plantation

A legal adviser has said the plantation near Mandalay grew industrial hemp and not marijuana. 
Injured people from Kyauk Tan village in Rathedaung township wait in a hospital in Rakhine state's capital Sittwe in western Myanmar on May 2, 2019, after the army opened fire on a group of ethnic Rakhine detainees at a school in the village. (STR / AFP)
Myanmar village in army lockdown 'running out of food'

Villagers in Rakhine state said Monday they are facing food shortages after being hemmed in for nearly a week by the military.
Reuters journalists Wa Lone (L) and Kyaw Soe Oo gesture outside Insein prison after being freed in a presidential amnesty in Yangon on May 7. (AFP)
Myanmar frees two Reuters journalists in amnesty

Two Reuters journalists who had been jailed for their reporting on the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar walked out of prison Tuesday, freed in a presidential amnesty.
Reuters journalist Wa Lone (3rd R) poses with his wife Pan Ei Mon (2nd R) and daughter along with his colleague Kyaw Soe Oo (L) carrying his daughter and his wife Chit Su Win after being freed from prison in a presidential amnesty in Yangon on May 7. (Ann Wang / AFP)
Freedom of expression in Myanmar still 'dire': UN

The UN on Tuesday praised the release of two Reuters journalists jailed for reporting on the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar, but warned that freedom of expression remains heavily restricted in the country.
Myanmar's army said it shot dead six detainees in a village school on May 2 while holding 275 men on suspicion of being Rakhine rebels, as fears over military impunity grow in the escalating fighting (STR / AFP).
Rakhine widow says 'husband was killed for no reason'

The widow of a man shot dead in military custody in Myanmar's Rakhine state said her husband died "for no reason", speaking after the army killed six men on suspicion of being rebels in the restive region.
An injured man from Kyauk Tan village in Rathedaung township sits on a bed in a hospital in Rakhine state's capital Sittwe in western Myanmar on May 2, 2019, after the army opened fire on a group of ethnic Rakhine detainees at a school in the village (STR / AFP).
Myanmar army kills six ethnic Rakhine detainees as violence worsens

Myanmar's army said it shot dead six detainees in a village school Thursday while holding 275 men on suspicion of being Rakhine rebels, as fears over military impunity grow in the escalating fighting.
Pa'O ethnic people dance as they bring a homemade rocket to launch during a festival in Nantar, Shan state. (Ye Aung Thu / AFP)
Dragons and wizards fired up at Myanmar rocket festival

Clad in elaborate headdresses representing dragons and wizards, Myanmar's ethnic Pa'O fire huge, homemade rockets into the sky—an annual call for plentiful rains and a chance for a windfall of cash.

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