With Myanmar’s ruling junta continuing to lose ground to the most powerful rebel group, Arakan Army, in the Rakhine and Chin states, both sharing boundaries with India, officials from several neighbouring countries recently held consultations with the representatives of the military regime in Bangkok. According to reports, Arakan Army captured the military regime’s western command … Read more
Daily Quiz | On various conflicts raging around the world 1 / 5 | Following the February 2021 coup by the Tatmadaw (the Myanmar junta), the pro-democracy opposition in the country have launched an insurrection that has included an armed struggle as well. Name the prime minister of the National Unity of Government in exile. … Read more
A file of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with French President Emmanuel Macron. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The junta in Myanmar has killed 3,700 people since the coup of February 1, 2021 and France should prevent India from transferring weapons and dual use technology to the military rulers of Naypyitaw, a covert group of activists … Read more
Prisoners released from Insein Prison are welcomed by their colleagues and family members in Yangon, Myanmar Monday, April 17, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP Myanmar’s junta on Monday, April 17, 2023, began releasing more than 3,000 prisoners to mark the Buddhist New Year, without specifying whether those jailed in its bloody crackdown on dissent would … Read more
People who fled from Myanmar collect donated clothes at a temporary distribution centre at Farkawn village near the India-Myanmar border, in Mizoram. File photo | Photo Credit: Reuters GUWAHATI The civil war in Myanmar is getting too close to the Indian border for comfort and could heighten the refugee problem, security officials in the border … Read more
Tens of thousands of anti-coup protesters rallied across Myanmar again on Monday despite a clear threat from the junta that it was prepared to use lethal force to crush what it branded “anarchy”. The warning came after three demonstrators were shot dead over the weekend, and the funeral on Sunday for a young woman who … Read more