Conditions in Myanmar’s jails are dire for all inmates, but human rights organisations say political prisoners suffer more abuses – including medical neglect that often has deadly consequences.
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Conditions in Myanmar’s jails are dire for all inmates, but human rights organisations say political prisoners suffer more abuses – including medical neglect that often has deadly consequences.
BY Frontier
Young people and their families are seeking any way they can to evade the Myanmar military’s conscription drive – sometimes with the help of sympathetic local administrators.
BY Frontier
The United States claimed it foiled a plot by an alleged Yakuza boss to sell weapons-grade plutonium sourced by an ethnic armed group in Myanmar, but experts say the story doesn’t add up.
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It was the latest of three fires to hit the cramped and squalid camps in the last four days, sending some 20,000 fleeing, officials said.
BY AFP
The $1.5 billion hydropower dam, the Shan State-based Shweli-3 project, was a 671-megawatt project in Shan State that was still in its early stages of development.
BY AFP
Residents say life has become too terrifying to stay in Yangon, where martial law has been declared over six townships and police and soldiers have begun pulling people from their homes and forcing them to clear roads at gunpoint.
BY AFP
Despite a bloody crackdown in the Yangon factory suburb and a max exodus of migrant workers, residents say they will continue their protests until the military is overthrown.
BY Frontier
Many see a growing online movement to ostracise the families of Tatmadaw generals as retribution for the decades of social exclusion previous juntas have foisted on the families of dissidents.
The ousted civilian leader's lawyer called the allegations "groundless and illogical", and said most people in Myanmar will not believe them.
BY Frontier
The parents of the 16-year-old, who was on her way to buy vegetables, tried frantically for six hours to get her to a hospital not run by the institution responsible for shooting her in the head, but ultimately couldn't.
BY AFP
As the military seeks to consolidate power, it is increasingly targeting journalists with lawsuits and violence in order to stop them from reporting the truth about what’s happening in Myanmar.
BY Frontier
Some 400 miles across the country, a Chin soldier stationed in Yangon also defected and has gone into hiding; all say they're defying orders to use lethal force against unarmed civilians.
BY AFP
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