FROM THE DVB NEWSROOM PDFs control most of northwest’s transport routes: NUG. 90% of roads in Sagaing and Magway regions — where the junta continues to perpetuate widespread atrocities — are now controlled by PDF groups, Nay Hpone Latt, the NUG’s press secretary, told a press conference on June 21. The secretary also highlighted that the military …
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Tuesday, June 21, 2022
FROM THE DVB NEWSROOM Hangings would be war crimes: UN. The UN’s Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar has announced that it believes the junta’s plan to execute democracy figures, including Ko Jimmy and Zeya Thaw, would constitute a crime against humanity. The UN investigation team concluded that the military’s use of opaque tribunals to sentence …
Monday, June 20, 2022
FROM THE DVB NEWSROOM Major Magway defense force claims AA link, opens NUG dialogue. Magway’s People’s Revolutionary Alliance, a local defense force, said its group had received support from the Arakan Army and is now working to liberate the entirety of Magway Region before Thingyan (Burmese new year) 2023. Read DVB’s report. | BURMESE Following …
The Weekend Briefing: Sunday, June 19, 2022
FROM THE DVB NEWSROOM Horrific phone evidence shows troops gloating over Ayardaw monastery massacre. Radio Free Asia on Saturday morning published a report graphically exhibiting a massacre carried out by troops from the Burma Army’s LIB 708 4th Company after files taken from a mobile phone belonging to one of the soldiers responsible were handed …
Thursday, June 16, 2022
FROM THE DVB NEWSROOM ILO outlines bleak picture for Burma’s workers. The International Labor Organization (ILO) announced that 1.6 million workers have lost their jobs, and child labor has increased across Burma since the military coup last year. “The unstable political landscape and deteriorating economic situation in Myanmar have forced more and more families into …
SAC renews threat to execute democracy figures after rumors of imminent hangings spread panic
As the international community vocally urges Burma’s military regime not to proceed with the promised executions of two of the country’s best known pro-democracy figures — an event that rumors last night suggested was imminent — DVB has confirmed from former inmates of Yangon’s Insein Prison that authorities have recently refurbished gallows within the prison compound. …