Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
October 2024 - Myanmar Special Weapons News
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- Military advances force evacuation of villages in Myanmar's Shan state Radio Free Asia 31 Oct 2024 -- A drone strike on Thursday by Myanmar's military killed an 8-year-old girl and wounded eight other civilians in a small village in southern Shan state as junta troops sought to retake towns controlled by rebel forces, according to a medic who attended to the victims.
- Church in village of Myanmar's Catholic leader bombed in junta raid Radio Free Asia 31 Oct 2024 -- Junta forces damaged a church in the home village of Myanmar's most prominent Christian, Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, one of several religious buildings destroyed in fighting between the military and pro-democracy forces, residents told Radio Free Asia on Thursday.
- Junta airstrikes lay waste to civilian lives in Myanmar's Karenni State VOA 31 Oct 2024 -- In a crowded church filled with mourners on September 6, a young high school teacher sat among friends, her face streaked with tears as she gazed at the makeshift shrouds covering the small bodies laid out before her.
- Anti-China sentiment said to be growing in Myanmar VOA 31 Oct 2024 -- A recent attack on a Chinese consulate in Myanmar reflects growing anti-Chinese sentiment in the country fed by Beijing's support of the ruling junta, experts say.
- Myanmar villagers protest against Europe's Airbus after airstrikes Radio Free Asia 30 Oct 2024 -- Victims of military airstrikes in Myanmar protested against Europe's largest aerospace group, Airbus, saying it and neighboring China were supporting the junta in its war against pro-democracy forces in which their village was destroyed and dozens of people killed.
- Canada imposes sanctions as violence in Myanmar escalates Canada 29 Oct 2024 -- The Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today announced sanctions under the Special Economic Measures (Burma) Regulations against 3 individuals and 4 entities for supplying weapons and military equipment to the Myanmar military.
- UK, EU and Canada impose new sanctions targeting Myanmar military regime and its associates UK FCDO 29 Oct 2024 -- The UK, EU and Canada have announced further sanctions targeting the Myanmar military's access to military material, equipment and funds.
- Myanmar opposition: Dialogue impossible, China must rethink junta support VOA 29 Oct 2024 -- Despite efforts by China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to resolve Myanmar's political and economic crisis, opposition leader Zaw Wai Soe told VOA that dialogue with the military regime is impossible amid ongoing atrocities.
- Myanmar ethnic alliance says offensive will continue until junta overthrown Radio Free Asia 29 Oct 2024 -- A year after its launch, the ethnic rebel alliance that spearheaded the Operation 1027 offensive in Myanmar's northern Shan state has said it will not rest until the country's military regime is removed from power.
- Myanmar junta bombs captives held by insurgents killing 12 Radio Free Asia 29 Oct 2024 -- A junta airstrike on a rebel-controlled prison in Myanmar killed 12 prisoners of war and wounded about 60, an anti-junta militia force told Radio Free Asia on Tuesday.
- 'Nowhere to go' say west Myanmar residents trapped by fighting Radio Free Asia 28 Oct 2024 -- About 1,000 civilians are trapped by fighting in western Myanmar as ethnic minority insurgents close in on a military headquarters in the town of Ann, with all roads closed and no way out to safety, residents told Radio Free Asia on Monday.
- INTERVIEW: Researcher finds hunger, desperation among newest Rohingya refugees Radio Free Asia 28 Oct 2024 -- Amnesty International researcher Joe Freeman recently traveled to Cox's Bazar, the district in Bangladesh along the border with western Myanmar's Rakhine state where thousands of ethnic Rohingyas have taken refuge this year
- Mass killings on the rise in Myanmar for fourth straight year Radio Free Asia 25 Oct 2024 -- The number of mass killings in Myanmar has risen for the fourth year in a row, with at least 435 people killed in massacres in the first nine months of the year, an independent research group said Friday.
- Conscription escapees tell of forced junta recruitment, inadequate training Radio Free Asia 25 Oct 2024 -- Several accounts of new recruits fleeing from military training sites in central Magway and Bago regions show that the junta's blanket conscription order continues to be hugely unpopular among Myanmar's young people, several told Radio Free Asia.
- Myanmar junta forces kill, mutilate villagers, insurgents say Radio Free Asia 24 Oct 2024 -- Myanmar junta soldiers massacred and mutilated at least 25 villagers in revenge for an insurgent attack and impaled some of the victims on stakes as a warning, anti-junta forces in the strife-torn central region of Sagaing told Radio Free Asia on Wednesday.
- China border restrictions prompts pricing surge in Myanmar Radio Free Asia 24 Oct 2024 -- China has imposed restrictions on the transport of goods along its border with northeastern Myanmar's Shan state in its latest bid to pressure ethnic rebels into a ceasefire with the military junta.
- Myanmar junta expands mandatory remittance for migrant workers Radio Free Asia 24 Oct 2024 -- Myanmar workers in Laos must remit a quarter of their salary back home, the junta's minister of labor said, the latest cohort of migrant workers forced to exchange earnings at an artificially low rate as the military struggles to acquire foreign currency.
- Warships of Russian Navy and Myanmar Navy start Marumex 2024 naval exercise in Andaman Sea Russia MoD 23 Oct 2024 -- A detachment of the Pacific Fleet's ships comprising the corvettes Gromky, Rezky, Hero of the Russian Federation Aldar Tsydenzhapov and the medium sea tanker Pechenga left the port of Thilawa (Republic of the Union of Myanmar) for the Andaman Sea.
- Myanmar junta forces kill, mutilate villagers, insurgents say Radio Free Asia 23 Oct 2024 -- Myanmar junta soldiers massacred and mutilated at least 25 villagers in revenge for an insurgent attack and impaled some of the victims on stakes as a warning, anti-junta forces in the strife-torn central region of Sagaing told Radio Free Asia on Wednesday.
- Myanmar rebels seize major border gate near China Radio Free Asia 22 Oct 2024 -- Allied insurgent forces in northern Myanmar have captured a main junta post near the border with China, an officer of the anti-junta Kachin Independence Army told Radio Free Asia on Tuesday, the latest setback for the military in the resource-rich region.
- Aid workers arrested, killed amid junta crackdown in Myanmar Radio Free Asia 22 Oct 2024 -- Myanmar's junta is increasingly targeting aid workers under the pretext that they are supporting the country's armed opposition, arresting more than 20 in Mon state since June, according to members of civil society groups.
- China strongly condemns explosion attack on Consulate-General in Mandalay, Myanmar: FM Global Times 21 Oct 2024 -- China expressed deep shock at an attack at its Consulate-General in Mandalay, Myanmar, and strongly condemned the act, according to Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian at a regular press briefing.
- China calls for action after attack on consulate in Myanmar Radio Free Asia 21 Oct 2024 -- China on Monday urged Myanmar's junta to find and punish the perpetrators of a bomb attack on its consulate in Mandalay over the weekend, but observers warned that more attacks are likely amid public anger over Beijing's support for the military regime.
- Real estate prices skyrocket as Yangon swells with Myanmar's displaced Radio Free Asia 19 Oct 2024 -- Myanmar's civil war is driving up housing demand in Yangon, causing rents to skyrocket as people displaced by conflict in remote border regions seek out the relative safety of the country's largest city, according to real estate agents and residents.
- Rebel army advances on junta's western headquarters in Myanmar's Rakhine state Radio Free Asia 18 Oct 2024 -- Heavy fighting is underway in western Myanmar's Rakhine state between junta troops and ethnic rebels in the vicinity of the military's western command center, trapping civilians in the crossfire, residents said Friday.
- China denies entry to Myanmar nationals trapped by battle Radio Free Asia 18 Oct 2024 -- Villagers and rare earth miners are trapped on the Myanmar-China border following a battle between allied rebel forces and junta troops, residents told Radio Free Asia on Friday.
- Myanmar deportees from Thailand abducted for military services Radio Free Asia 18 Oct 2024 -- Myanmar's junta has forcibly recruited migrant workers sent home by Thailand for illegal entry and overstaying their visas in as many as five separate incidents in recent weeks, according to deportees, some of whom said they were released after paying hefty "ransoms" to the military.
- Border town 'out in the open' as ethnic army captures Myanmar junta camp Radio Free Asia 17 Oct 2024 -- Insurgent forces in eastern Myanmar captured a junta base close to the Thai border on Thursday morning, a Karen National Union spokesperson told Radio Free Asia.
- Myanmar's internet now as restrictive as China's: report Radio Free Asia 16 Oct 2024 -- Internet freedoms in Myanmar are now as bad as in China, according to a new report released by Freedom House on Wednesday.
- Myanmar junta extends census as fighting, floods slow election preparations Radio Free Asia 16 Oct 2024 -- Myanmar's military regime has been forced to extend its two-week census, an official told Radio Free Asia on Wednesday, after fighting and threats of retaliation against junta administrators, along with flooding in the wake of Typhoon Yagi, made it impossible to gather information in many parts of the country.
- Myanmar rebels capture border base near Chinese rare-earth mining hub Radio Free Asia 15 Oct 2024 -- Joint rebel forces have seized a key base for Myanmar's pro-junta Border Guard Force in Kachin state, and residents say rebels will soon occupy a nearby town that serves as a hub for Chinese rare-earth mining and cross-border trade.
- ASEAN chair calls for end of Myanmar war, but rebels say that depends on junta Radio Free Asia 14 Oct 2024 -- The chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations called for an end to the war in Myanmar, but armed rebel groups called that "unrealistic," saying the ruling military junta has shown no willingness to dialogue.
- Insurgent army tightens its grip on northern Myanmar town Radio Free Asia 14 Oct 2024 -- An insurgent group battling Myanmar's junta in Shan state has taken full control of a major town, a spokesperson told Radio Free Asia on Monday.
- Where does Myanmar's junta get its munitions? Radio Free Asia 11 Oct 2024 -- Nearly two dozen weapons factories are keeping Myanmar's junta in the business of war, providing around half of the munitions the military regime has used in a years-long conflict against its own people, defectors said.
- As Myanmar's census draws to a close, observers question its accuracy Radio Free Asia 11 Oct 2024 -- Officials are nearly done conducting a census in Myanmar ahead of planned elections next year, but observers say the data is inaccurate, as many residents have left the country, joined the armed opposition, or are in prison for opposing military rule.
- Myanmar is spiralling, warns UN chief in peace call to regional bloc ASEAN UN News 11 Oct 2024 -- Amid escalating hostilities in Myanmar sparked by a 2021 military coup that have plunged millions into a deepening humanitarian crisis, UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Friday urged the country's neighbours "to leverage their influence" to bring about peace.
- Myanmar military transfers prisoners as insurgents advance Radio Free Asia 10 Oct 2024 -- Junta authorities in western Myanmar have transferred nearly 370 prisoners out of the town of Sittwe in anticipation of an attack by ethnic minority fighters of the Arakan Army, or AA, to free them, a politician and family of the detainees told Radio Free Asia.
- Observers: Chinese-made fighter jets play key role in deadly airstrikes in Myanmar VOA 09 Oct 2024 -- Local media in Myanmar are reporting that six FTC-2000G fighter jets purchased from China have arrived, and observers are concerned that Chinese military support for the Myanmar military is prolonging the conflict and worsening civilian suffering.
- As fighting wears on, many in Myanmar are focused on a new government Radio Free Asia 09 Oct 2024 -- For decades, federalism seemed like a distant dream. The war has made it a possibility.
- Myanmar fighters capture hotly contested northwest town Radio Free Asia 09 Oct 2024 -- Pro-democracy fighters in Myanmar have captured a northwestern town on an important corridor for anti-junta forces after weeks of fighting, triggering sustained airstrikes by the military in response, residents and rebel soldiers told Radio Free Asia.
- 'Direct hit' airstrike on homes kills 15 civilians in Myanmar's Rakhine state Radio Free Asia 09 Oct 2024 -- A junta airstrike that hit several houses in a village in western Myanmar's Rakhine state killed 15 civilians, including three generations of the same family, and injured at least five others, residents said.
- ASEAN seeking new strategies to address Myanmar crisis - Marcos Philippine News Agency 10 Oct 2024 -- The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is looking for new ways to address the ongoing political crisis in Myanmar, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. said on Wednesday.
- Over 100 Myanmar political prisoners have died since coup, group says Radio Free Asia 08 Oct 2024 -- More than 100 political prisoners arrested by Myanmar's junta have died in custody in the three and a half years since the military seized power, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, or AAPP.
- Myanmar census-takers and their protectors face rebel attacks Radio Free Asia 07 Oct 2024 -- Officials conducting a census in Myanmar ahead of planned elections next year are getting harassed and arrested by insurgent groups, and security forces providing them protection are getting attacked, residents said.
- Senior Myanmar pro-democracy politician dies in custody at 73 Radio Free Asia 07 Oct 2024 -- Zaw Myint Maung, a deputy leader of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, or NLD, died of cancer on Monday, the latest member of Myanmar's embattled democracy movement to die in detention of the junta that ousted their government in 2021.
- Laos ASEAN summit to focus on Myanmar crisis VOA 07 Oct 2024 -- The failure of Myanmar's junta to end the country's violence, allow humanitarian assistance and implement other elements of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' "Five-Point Consensus" will be the focus of ASEAN's summit this week in Laos.
- Rebels battle for Myanmar junta's western military headquarters Radio Free Asia 04 Oct 2024 -- Ethnic minority insurgents in Myanmar are battling hard to capture a major military headquarters in Rakhine state, residents told Radio Free Asia on Friday, the loss of which would deal the junta a serious setback in the western-most state.
- Thousands flee Myanmar airstrikes after rebel ambush Radio Free Asia 03 Oct 2024 -- About 10,000 villagers in Myanmar's Sagaing region are fleeing junta airstrikes launched after forces loyal to a shadow pro-democracy government inflicted unusually heavy casualties on a military column, residents told Radio Free Asia.
- Traders in Myanmar struggle as borders with China remain closed in rebel-held areas Radio Free Asia 02 Oct 2024 -- Merchants of Chinese goods in Myanmar are reeling as China keeps its borders closed to areas of the Southeast Asian country that are controlled by anti-junta ethnic rebels, residents in Myanmar told Radio Free Asia.
- Residents of Myanmar's Lashio flee relentless airstrikes Radio Free Asia 02 Oct 2024 -- Hundreds of civilians in the rebel-controlled northeastern Myanmar town of Lashio are fleeing in the face of relentless junta air attacks as the military presses on with an offensive aimed at retaking territory captured by insurgent forces, residents said on Wednesday.
- Rebels seize junta base near Chinese rare-earth mine in northern Myanmar Radio Free Asia 01 Oct 2024 -- Ethnic Kachin rebels have seized control of a key military base in northern Myanmar's Kachin state near a Chinese rare-earth mine and other Chinese-led projects, according to residents and a rebel official.
- Myanmar junta launches census after blasts in Yangon Radio Free Asia 01 Oct 2024 -- Myanmar's military administration launched a census on Tuesday that will be used to draw up voter lists for an election due next year, a day after activists objecting to the junta's plans set off two bombs in the city of Yangon that wounded 11 people.
- Some 200,000 Myanmar workers detained in Thai immigration crackdown Radio Free Asia 01 Oct 2024 -- Thai authorities detained nearly 200,000 Myanmar nationals during a 120-day nationwide crackdown on migrant workers who lack proper identification or documentation, Thailand's Department of Employment said in a report.
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