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SAC Soldiers Forced Male Residents in Prone Position and Searched in Phaikhun

Fifteen villagers were forced to lie down in a prone position and were investigated by a military battalion deploying into the border of Phaikhun...

Hopang Farmers Protest Land Seizures

Farmers are protesting plans by the junta-appointed Shan State Forest Department to seize farmland for the construction of a government office in Mong Pang...

Non-CDM Teachers Forcing New Enrolled Students to Join Private Tuition

The Non-CDM teachers from No. 1, High School, Hopong township, Southern Shan State, are forcing the new enrolled students to attend the paid private...

KIO/KIA Collecting Taxes From Impoverished Northern Shan State Villagers

The Kachin Independence Organisation/Army (KIO/KIA) has increased taxes from villagers struggling to survive in areas controlled by the armed group in troubled northern Shan...

PNO/PNA Steps Up Forced Recruitment In Taunggyi District

The Pa'O National Organisation, which has transformed its Pa'O National Army into a regime-controlled People's Militia Force (PMF), is forcibly recruiting Shan youth from...

Freedom of Belief and Religion – What does it mean for Them?

During one year after the coup, the civilian properties, especially in the rural villages, were burned down, the locals were arrested and killed, and...

The Struggling Life of the IDPs Relocating in the Deep Jungle

A group of people are holding and carrying bags while struggling to walk on a two foot wide track in a deep forest. Since this...

The IDPs in Pindaya Face Inadequate Supplies

The internally displaced people (IDPs) relocating to Pindaya township, Southern Shan State, are now experiencing food and sheltering issues during this raining season.  According to...

Burma Army Killing Civilians In Ywar Ngarn Township

According to a prominent Shan group, the regime murdered 10 civilians in Ywar Ngarn Township in southern Shan State from February to April. ''Instead of...

PNO/PNA Soldiers Bully Villagers In Southern Shan State

Pa-O National Organisation/Pa-O National Army (PNO/PNA) soldiers allegedly destroyed a Catholic statue and a church in a village in Pinlaung Township, southern Shan State. A...

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