Airstrike Epidemic (0) // The junta’s war on children
SEPTEMBER 16th, 2022 // Early afternoon, the Burmese army intentionally attacked a school in Lat Yet Kone village in Depayin Township. Using machine guns and launchers, soldiers killed two dozen people, half of them children.
Surviving in Cities of Crime and Despair
A year and a half after the military coup, the life of people in Myanmar is worsening by the day. As the cities become lawless, the rates of crime and insecurity increase and people lost all feelings of physical safety and economic stability.
// ROHINGYATOGRAPHER // Snaps of life in the world’s biggest refugee camp
August 25th, 2022 // This summer, a collective of Rohingya photographers living for years in the Kuputalong-Balukhali refugee camp in Bangladesh published their first photography magazine.
In memoriam of the journalists in Myanmar
After the military coup on February 1st, 2021, journalists were among the first to be hunted down along with opposition politicians, social workers and activists. Dozens of reporters have been arrested and four have been killed by the SAC.
Junta Gets Full Membership in the Eurasian Autocracies Gang
Pob Pra District, Tak province, Thailand – In this remote village at the Thai-Myanmar border, a model-sized blue Mig-29 aircraft led the cortege for Asahna Bucha Buddhist ceremony. Three little boys dressed in pilot, soldier and policeman uniforms sat around the small jet fighter, which was carried in a decorated pick-up truck parading around their […]
Remember Six Decades of Students Repression
YANGON // On July 7th, many protests happened around Myanmar to mark the 60th anniversary of the 1962 revolutionary student strike. The “Seven July” uprising was one of the first mass movement to oppose the military coup by General Ne Win’s junta in March earlier that year. On that day, the military injured and killed […]
Shan Women Lost Dignity and Safety
In Southern Shan State, women have been sexually assaulted, shot and killed since the coup and no one took responsibility.
The Shadow of Death Penalty
More than three decades after the last executions, the junta announced the renewed implementation of the death penalty.
Junta Burning Upper Burma
A woman in her sixties, wearing a hat and a worn-out sweater, is weeping heavily as she is leaning against a wall. She sits on the ground, in the middle of fuming ashes, metal poles, pieces of the zinc roof of a house and charcoaled woods from the burned house scattered all over the […]
A Month of Unity for Burmese and Thai Workers
May 1st, 2022 // As mass pro-democracy demonstrations have become too risky in Myanmar since March 2021, hundreds of Burmese migrant workers used the May Day strike tradition to take to the streets of downtown Bangkok. They protested against the coup d’Etat in their native country and requested dignified working conditions in their host country, where they are subjected to regular abuse and exploitation for decades.