Stay updated with breaking news from Upper Myanmar. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Successive dictators have appointed trusted confidants to lead their spy agencies, which act to entrench military rule through brutal repression of the population.
The chief of Military Security Affairs is a close confidant of Min Aung Hlaing who has overseen hundreds of deaths in interrogation centers.
A junta flotilla was repeatedly ambushed by resistance groups as it sailed the Chindwin River.
SBDF chief Bo Thanmani, son of a Rakhine communist rebel, was killed in a clash in Shwebo while using his group’s only assault rifle to cover his fighters, members say.
Defence forces attacked eight junta ships on the Ayeyarwady River near Myaung Township, Sagaing Region, killing six soldiers with a bomb dropped from a drone on 13 June, according to a statement by the Civilian’s Defense and Security Organization Myaung (CDSOM).