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Myanmar coup

April 2024

  • Protesters marching with banners supporting the opposition National Unity Government.

    Myanmar opposition carries out drone attack on capital

    National Unity Government said it attacked two military targets in junta-controlled Naypidaw

February 2024

  • A school in Daw Si Ei village, Karenni state, Myanmar following an airstrike.

    Rights and freedom
    Myanmar: airstrike on school killed four children, witnesses say

  • FILE - Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, head of the military council, inspects officers during a parade to commemorate Myanmar's 78th Armed Forces Day in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on March 27, 2023. When the army moved to overthrow Myanmar's elected government in the early hours of Feb. 1, 2021, to overthrow the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, it looked like a walkover that could entrench the military in power indefinitely. Three years later, a poorly armed but popular and politically savvy grassroots resistance movement has shaken the military’s grip, in a modern-day David vs. Goliath scenario, but the costs have been high.(AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo, File)

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January 2024

  • A group of under-training rebel fighters with Chin National Army in the western Chin province of Myanmar, during a training session with dummy guns.

    Myanmar: three years on from the coup
    Three years on from Myanmar’s military coup, the junta is struggling to assert control

    Junta leader Min Aung Hlaing facing criticism after months of battlefield losses, with an estimated two-thirds of the country gripped by conflict

December 2023

  • A Rohingya refugee woman looks on as she holds her child at a temporary camp

    Myanmar on ‘precipice of humanitarian crisis’ after military coup, UN warns

    One-third of population need humanitarian aid, says United Nations as it seeks $1bn in donations

November 2023

  • A fighter of the TNLA ethnic rebel group stands guard in the town of Namhkam in northern Shan state

    Myanmar fighting at its worst since 2021 coup, says UN

  • A missile is fired on 28 October from a Myanmar military base in Lashio township, northern Shan state, where the military is struggling to tackle a fresh offensive.

    Myanmar junta facing biggest challenge yet after new offensive by armed groups, analysts say

October 2023

  • File photo of a town in Kachin state, Myanmar

    Myanmar: at least 29 people killed in attack on camp for displaced people

    Victims of attack in Kachin state include children, according to media and local activists

July 2023

  • A settlement with green tarpaulins roofing bamboo huts and houses stretched along a valley

    Villagers say 14 killed as Myanmar violence flares

  • A military parade to commemorate Myanmar's 78th Armed Forces Day in Naypyitaw, on 27 March.

    Sexual violence is junta’s ‘modus operandi’, Myanmar activist tells UN

June 2023

  • Fighters from the Karenni Nationalities Defence Force, one of the many rebel groups in Myanmar.

    The Myanmar junta kills … and the rest of the world looks away

  • Two soldiers in the Karenni Nationalities Defence Force look over Demoso township from a hilltop.

    In the targets of the junta: life and war inside rebel-held Myanmar

May 2023

  • Myanmar leader Gen Min Aung Hlaing, who is releasing more than 2,100 political prisoners as a humanitarian gesture. According to an official announcement on state media, all of the prisoners granted pardons on Wednesday were convicted under a section of the penal code that makes it a crime to spread comments that create public unrest or fear, or spread false news

    Myanmar’s military rulers release more than 2,100 political prisoners

    The prisoners are to be released the most important Buddhist holy day of the year. However, deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi remains in jail

April 2023

  • A photo provided by the Kyunhla Activists Group shows the aftermath of the airstrike.

    Myanmar airstrike on civilians sparks global outcry as witnesses describe attack

    Death toll in Sagaing could reach 100 in what could be deadliest junta attack since coup in 2021

March 2023

  • Protesters demonstrate against the military coup in front of a National League for Democracy (NLD) office in Myanmar in 2021.

    US, UK, Japan and Australia condemn Myanmar for banning 40 political parties

  • A man sits in front of a house destroyed by the Myanmar junta’s air strike.

    Myanmar is a failing state, led by a junta fuelled by Russian arms, says UN rights envoy

February 2023

  • A man with a plastic bag over his face, a recurring image in Myanmar Diaries

    Myanmar Diaries review – gut-punching guerrilla testament to military coup violence

  • Protesters in Myanmar hold portraits of deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi outside the country’s embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, on the Myanmar military takeover anniversary

    Myanmar junta extends state of emergency, delaying promised elections

  • Members of the Myanmar military march on 4 January 2023.

    Myanmar junta hit by western sanctions as ‘silent strikes’ mark coup anniversary

  • Protesters take part in a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar on 3 July 2021.

    Revealed: how world’s biggest fossil fuel firms ‘profited in Myanmar after coup’

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