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Junta troops accused of rape in Myanmar’s Chin state

Troops entered the village of Aklui located along the highway connecting Tedim with Kalay township in Sagaing region on November 11

Myanmar junta charges Suu Kyi with fraud during 2020 polls

Suu Kyi faces a raft of charges including illegally importing walkie talkies, sedition and corruption, and faces decades in jail if convicted

Catholic cathedral hit by artillery shelling in Myanmar’s Shan state, says...

A source said that five artillery shells “fell on the church,” which was identified as the “Phekone Cathedral Church of Sacred Heart”

Myanmar charges US journalist with terrorism, sedition

Danny Fenster, who was arrested as he tried to leave the country in May, was charged under anti-terror and sedition laws

Satellite imagery shows damage to town torched in Myanmar’s Chin state

Witnesses said soldiers entered Thantlang town on October 29, looted properties and then set fires to 200 homes and some churches

Myanmar’s military accused of using human shields

A human rights group said the abduction of 19 men marks the fourth time villagers were detained and used as human shields in Kayah state

Myanmar junta accuses anti-coup fighters of razing western town

The junta's information team confirmed Saturday that two churches and 70 homes were burnt down in Thantlang

60 houses, church torched in Myanmar since September, says report

Between October 13 and October 25, junta soldiers torched 42 houses and one church in Falam township

Southeast Asian summit begins without Myanmar after junta snubbed

Barring Myanmar's junta chief from the ASEAN meeting was "tremendously significant,” said a political analyst

Religious rights groups join calls for UN action on Myanmar

The groups said the February coup has emboldened the military to further persecute Christians and Muslims

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