In the year since Myanmar’s coup, many opposed to military rule have joined the ranks of ethnic armed groups fighting the government. Kayah State in the east has seen some of the heaviest fighting as the conflict escalates. Thousands have come to the border with Thailand to seek safety from the violence, but not all of them are getting through. Al Jazeera’s Tony Cheng reports from the Thailand-Myanmar border. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #Myanmar #MyanmarCoup #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
Fighters opposed to the military government seized a police station in the eastern town of Mobye on Sunday. It was set on fire, and at least 13 security personnel were captured or killed. And after facing nearly four months of a violent crackdown – a growing number of young, anti-military protesters are joining ethnic rebel groups for training. Al Jazeera’s Scott Heidler has the story. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #Myanmar
One of Myanmar’s rebel groups has attacked a military outpost near the Thai border, in some of the heaviest fighting since the coup on February 1st. This is happening as the protest movement continues across the country. Al Jazeera’s Scott Heidler reports from Bangkok. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #Myanmar
Southeast Asian nations have called for an immediate end to violence against civilians in Myanmar. ASEAN leaders have come up with a five-point plan after meeting the head of Myanmar’s military government, in Jakarta. However, ASEAN tried to rein in Myanmar’s military before, in the early ’90s and ’00s, but to little avail. Al Jazeera’s Tony Cheng reports. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #ASEAN #Myanmar #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
Activists in Myanmar have burned copies of a military-framed constitution in protest against Senior General Min Aung Hlaing’s power grab, as neighbouring Thailand expressed “grave” concern over the security forces’ escalating crackdown on anti-coup protesters. People again took to the streets of cities across Myanmar on Thursday, defying a security force clampdown that has killed at least 535 people since February 1 when the military deposed Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government. The demonstrations came as fighting intensified between Myanmar’s military and ethnic rebel groups in the country’s border areas – a development that a United Nations special envoy said increased the “possibility of civil war at an unprecedented scale”. […]
As the military crackdown goes on, some activists and protesters are joining ethnic armed groups to train with their fighters. They intend to take up arms against the military. Al Jazeera spoke to some of them in Karen state, in the south-east. Al Jazeera’s Florence Looi reports. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ #Myanmar #MyanmarCrackdown #KarenState
Myanmar security forces have opened fire on people gathered for the funeral of one of the 114 people killed on Saturday in the bloodiest day since the February 1 coup, as the defence chiefs of 12 countries condemned the military for its crackdown on demonstrators. There were no immediate reports of casualties in the shooting at the funeral on Sunday in the town of Bago, near the commercial capital, Yangon, according to three people who spoke to Reuters news agency. Two people were killed in firing on protests on Sunday in separate incidents elsewhere, witnesses and news reports said. One person was killed when troops opened fire overnight on a […]
0 A senior official from the National League of Democracy (NLD), the party of detained Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, has revealed to Al Jazeera about how he fled the country, fearing for his life, after the February 1 coup. Dr Sasa, who left Myanmar by taxi and motorbike over the mountains, has now been chosen as the special envoy of the committee representing the NLD to the United Nations. For his safety, Dr Sasa spoke from an undisclosed location with Al Jazeera and said he thinks the army may now not be 100 percent behind the military government. Al Jazeera’s James Bays reports from the United Nations, New […]
0 Police and security forces have allowed hundreds of protesters in Myanmar’s biggest city Yangon to leave after they hunkered down in one district in defiance of a weeks-long nightly curfew to protest the military government’s coup. It follows United Nations chief Antonio Guterres’ warning that security forces should show “maximum restraint” in dealing with the protesters. Security forces have killed dozens of protesters in weeks of demonstrations after Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi was detained on February 1 following the military’s take over. The government has revoked the license of five independent media outlets. Al Jazeera’s Katia Lopez-Hodayan reports. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us […]
0 In Myanmar, a prominent Muslim politician has reportedly died after being arrested overnight by security forces. Khin Maung Latt’s cause of death is not known, but as Al Jazeera’s Tony Cheng reports, the police and army have been carrying out increasingly brutal raids throughout the country. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #Myanmar
