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Five Myanmar nationals asked the Philippines on Wednesday to investigate alleged war crimes committed by 10 serving or former members of Myanmar's military against the mainly Christian Chin minority. Filipino lawyers representing the Myanmar nationals told reporters they lodged the "landmark"...

At least 29 people, including children, have been killed in an artillery strike on a displaced persons' camp in northeast Myanmar, near the Chinese border. The camp is in an area controlled by the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), one of several ethnic insurgent groups which have been fighting...

Human rights groups on Tuesday urged Indonesia to investigate suspected arms sales by state-owned companies to Myanmar, where Indonesia has been trying to promote reconciliation since a 2021 military coup triggered widespread conflict. Groups filed a complaint with Indonesia's national human rights...

Rohingya people living in refugee camps in the Bangladeshi city of Cox's Bazar are being arbitrarily detained, beaten, and tortured by members of the Armed Police Battalion (APBn)—a specialized combat unit of the Bangladesh police force—an investigation by the human rights NGO Fortify Rights has...

War crimes committed by Myanmar's military, including the bombing of civilians, have become "increasingly frequent and brazen," a team of United Nations investigators said in a report published on Tuesday. The report by the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM), which covered the...

Myanmar's ruling military pardoned on Tuesday jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi on five of the 19 offences for which she was convicted, but she will remain under house arrest, state media and informed sources said. The pardons mean six years will be shaved off Suu Kyi's 33-year jail term, junta...

Fighting between the Myanmar army and anti-junta rebels has flared up in recent days, with local people in one village saying on Saturday that 14 people were killed in a single raid. Deadly violence has engulfed Myanmar since the military deposed Aung San Suu Kyi’s civilian government in February...

The crisis in Myanmar should be referred to the international criminal court for war crimes and crimes against humanity, including widespread sexual violence, an open session at the UN security council will be told. Naw Hser Hser is the first Myanmar human rights defender to brief council members in...

Myanmar’s military rulers are preventing life-saving humanitarian aid from reaching people who need it as the country falls deeper into violence, the United Nations human rights chief has said. Addressing the Human Rights Council in Geneva, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said the...

Myanmar’s military-controlled government is accusing pro-democracy fighters of killing 15 civilians in a nighttime mortar attack in a restive central area of the country, charges denied by the guerrilla group. A report Thursday in the state-run Myanma Alinn newspaper said so-called People’s Defense...