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The 60-year-old died en route to a hospital five minutes’ drive from the prison after experiencing severe breathing difficulties

At least 11 civilians, including an unknown number of children, have been killed in Karenni State by airstrikes carried out by the Myanmar Air Force Sept. 1-15. “The attacks were aimed at creating fear among civilians, disrupting their livelihoods,” Banyar Aung, the Karenni Interim Executive Council (IEC) Secretary-2, told DVB. On Sept, 14, one civilian [...] The post Myanmar Air Force kills 11 civilians in Karenni State across first half of September appeared first on DVB .

It is the second mass jailbreak in resistance-held territory this year, following a similar incident in Karenni State in January

A 2,000-strong junta column is battling its way towards Hpapun to reinforce encircled troops at the tactical command base south of the town

The Democratic Party for a New Society (DPNS) on Thursday backed the campaign for Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun to remain in his role as Myanmar’s permanent representative to the U.N. ahead of the Credentials Committee’s decision on whether he should continue in the post he has held since 2020. “Replacing Kyaw Moe Tun with a [...] The post Democratic Party for a New Society backs campaign for UN Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun appeared first on DVB .

Sources close to the police in Naypyidaw told DVB that seven people were arrested and charged in Pyinmana Township under the Myanmar Petroleum and Petroleum Products Law from Sept. 12-15. Pyinmana Township is located 36 miles (57 km) east of the capital Naypyidaw. A source close to the Pyinmana police told DVB on the condition [...] The post Seven arrested in Naypyidaw as Myanmar regime cracks down on illegal fuel storage and sales appeared first on DVB .

The former president of Myanmar’s American Chamber of Commerce was released after several months’ detention, following a visit by an American delegation to Naypyitaw

Guest contributor Alan Clements As another session of the United Nations General Assembly approaches, I find myself thinking about Myanmar in a way that is both familiar and increasingly difficult to reconcile. For more than four decades, Burma, as I still instinctively call it, has been one of the great through-lines of my life, a [...] The post The question we should put to the United Nations appeared first on DVB .

One Buddhist monk was killed and five civilians were injured by artillery when it struck a Buddhist monastery in Shwebo Township’s Nama Sayit village, in Sagaing Region, on Wednesday. Resistance forces blamed the regime for the attack, which was followed by airstrikes carried out by the Myanmar Air Force that injured at least seven other [...] The post Airstrikes and artillery hit monastery and displacement site in Sagaing Region counteroffensive appeared first on DVB .