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Ethnic Armed Groups Unite With Anti-Coup Protesters Against Myanmar Junta KNLA troops on Karen Martyrs’ Day in Karen State’s Papun District in August 2018. / The Irrawaddy 11.4k By The Irrawaddy 30 April 2021 In the month following the military’s Feb. 1 coup, many of Myanmar’s ethnic armed organizations (EAOs), which have been warring with the central government for decades, said they opposed the junta’s overthrowing of the democratically-elected civilian government. When the Myanma...

Myanmar: Humanitarian Snapshot, April 2021 (covering conflict-affected areas under 2021 Humanitarian Response Plan) Format KACHIN STATE Armed clashes escalated between the Myanmar Armed Forces (MAF) and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) since mid - March, with almost 50 armed confrontations in Bhamo, Hpakant, Injangyang, Momauk, Myitkyina, Shwegu, Sumprabum and Waingmaw townships. Nearly 5,000 people have been displaced in Injangyang, Hpakant, Momauk, Myitkyina, Shwegu and Waingmaw townships d...

Asia and the Pacific: Weekly Regional Humanitarian Snapshot (30 March to 5 April 2021) Format INDONESIA/TIMOR-LESTE Timor-Leste and Indonesia’s southern-most province of East Nusa Tenggara have been hit by floods, landslides, and flash floods following heavy rains and strong winds brought by tropical cyclone Seroja. In Indonesia, at least 86 people have died, 70 are missing and 35 have been injured following heavy rains and flash floods, The figures will likely change as rapid assessments con...

Myanmar Sunday 4 April 2021, by Pierre Rousset This article was written the day after Saturday 27 March 2021, the date of Myanmar’s traditional “Armed Forces Day” commemorating the uprising against the Japanese occupation in 1945, inaugurated with a martial parade worthy of a French 14 July in the administrative capital of Naypyidaw. The celebration came as the army murdered at least 102 people, including some children and a good number of young adolescents - the heaviest daily toll sinc...

Myanmar Friday 12 March 2021, by Pierre Rousset Six long weeks after the 1 February coup, the vast movement of civil disobedience in Myanmar has won a first significant victory: preventing the junta from claiming to control the country. The army has responded by resorting, in particular, to a policy of multifaceted terror. We have entered a new stage in the confrontation between the military order and the democratic movement. In the face of the violence of the assault, the resistance continues...

Criticized, Myanmar’s Influential Monk Close to Coup Leader Breaks Silence on Killing Protesters Criticized, Myanmar’s Influential Monk Close to Coup Leader Breaks Silence on Killing Protesters Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing (left, front) with U Kovida (right, front) during the Hti Umbrella placing ceremony at ancient Htilominlo Temple in Bagan in 2020. (The Irrawaddy) 14.8k By The Irrawaddy 5 March 2021 Yangon—One of Myanmar’s most influential Buddhist monks has finally broken his silence o...