Myanmar

Parcel bombs are suspected in Insein Prison explosions that reportedly killed three staff and five visitors.

[notorious for the ill-treatment of prisoners](/news/2021/7/24/myanmar-junta-replaces-envoy-to-britain-who-broke) and reports of torture. [serving a one-year sentence at Insein](/news/2022/9/2/myanmar-court-sentences-ex-uk-envoy-husband-to-year-in-prison) for failing to declare she was living at an address different from the one listed on her foreigner registration certificate. [high-security Insein Prison](/news/2022/4/8/sketches-smuggled-out-of-insein-expose-harsh-prison-conditions), according to media reports.

Myanmar's military regime has arrested six foreigners since the military coup last year, including a former British ambassador to the country.

The judge refused to consider the fact that he resigned from Myanmar Now on July 2020 and had since been working for Frontier Myanmar. He was the first foreigner to be detained after the coup because of his ties to the NLD government. Bowman served as Britain’s ambassador to Myanmar under the previous military regime between 2002 and 2006. Japanese freelance journalist Yuki Kitazumi was detained in Yangon on April 18, 2021. The 30-year-old was allegedly beaten during his arrest. The 58-year-old economist is currently being held in Insein Prison in Yangon.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 19 — Malaysia deported 150 Myanmar nationals this month, including former navy officers seeking asylum, and plans to send back more ...

They declined to be identified. It did not mention that the group included former navy officers. “Not only in Malaysia but in the region, people fleeing Myanmar must be allowed access to territory to seek asylum and be protected against refoulement,” it said in a statement to Reuters. Reuters could not establish why they were held in Yangon. He has urged South-east Asian countries to engage with the Myanmar opposition and called on Asean to “buck up” efforts to provide humanitarian assistance and promote a Myanmar peace process. The two were deported from Malaysia for failing to hold valid documents to reside in the country, the sources said.

They say the authorities plan to send back more despite the risk of arrest they face in their home country.

They declined to be identified. It did not mention that the group included former navy officers. "Not only in Malaysia but in the region, people fleeing Myanmar must be allowed access to territory to seek asylum and be protected against refoulement," it said in a statement to Reuters. Reuters could not establish why they were held in Yangon. He has urged Southeast Asian countries to engage with the Myanmar opposition and called on Asean to "buck up" efforts to provide humanitarian assistance and promote a Myanmar peace process. The two were deported from Malaysia for failing to hold valid documents to reside in the country, the sources said.

Leaked documents reveal that Korean companies sought to conceal that the UMS Mottama, sold to the Myanmar Navy in 2019, had been built to military ...

A Myanmar Navy letter leaked to activist group Justice For Myanmar (JFM) shows that a meeting was then organised with Posco International and the Myanmar Army’s Directorate of Procurement in October 2017 for the acquisition of a Multi-Purpose Support Vessel. The UMS Mottama was commissioned by Senior General Min Aung Hlaing in 2019, in a ceremony that showcased its use for the military. With the support of my client, Myat Min Thu, we could provide concrete evidence that Posco International did not abide by Korean domestic law in its assistance to the military junta.” Posco International has longstanding business interests in Myanmar. For instance, details of the gun systems and artillery store were crossed out and the tank deck was renamed as “K-Deck”. A June 2017 letter from Myanmar Navy Commodore Zaw Win to Korea’s Defence Acquisition Program Administration, leaked to Myanmar Now, requested “prompt favourable” export permission for the LPD.

Two blasts amid gunfire killed at least eight persons and injured 15 others in a prison in Myanmar on Wednesday. The incident happened inside Insein Prison in ...

[Anadolu Agency website contains only a portion of the news stories offered to subscribers in the AA News Broadcasting System (HAS), and in summarized form. Incidents of blasts and gunfire have seen a rise in city areas in Myanmar after the military toppled a civilian government last year. (0310GMT), two parcel bombs went off near the main entrance of the prison: one detonated in a building where staff receives care packages for prisoners and another one went off outside,” the report said.

Bangkok (AP) -- A bombing on Wednesday near the front gate of Myanmar's main prison for political detainees killed at least eight people, including visitors ...

International aid organisations have not done enough to allay concerns about their deals with the country's hated regime.

But if they believe that graphs and maps with incomplete data will be enough to convince anyone that they are a force for good, they are seriously mistaken. And considering the dramatic spike in corruption since the coup, are there any guarantees that money meant to assist the poor won’t end up being misdirected towards those who don’t need it at all? Given that the UN’s Humanitarian Response Plan for Myanmar is operating on only 20% of its budget for this year, it seems pertinent to ask how much of this money has been spent on UN personnel and INGO expat staff who have been outside of the country since the coup. And have they also agreed to share information about their partners’ projects with the junta? On the subject of money—have UN agencies and INGOs been exchanging foreign currencies into kyat at the rate set by the regime? There are also many who would like to know if the UN has engaged in serious discussions with the National Unity Government, ethnic armed groups, and local civil society organisations on the territories not controlled by junta about what role they could play in delivering aid.

Myanmar's shadow government and rights groups are voicing alarm over reports that military defectors were among 150 Myanmar nationals deported this month ...

“But then on the other hand other parts of the Malaysian government are working very closely with the military junta." “We will continue to engage with Malaysia’s government and call on Kuala Lumpur to stop putting Myanmar’s activists in danger,” [announced](https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid07KKprWvo5sDNSu1ZMsPVpHKkLHFYBCNDfsuxPB7Z8vAMAJfqhGgwybB7LS8iGwtBl&id=100064876953433) that 150 Myanmar nationals “detained under Malaysian immigrant law for a long period of time” were brought back to Myanmar on Oct. Refugee Office, or UNHCR, access to immigration detention centers so that they can identify those in need of protection. Malaysian authorities arrested six former Myanmar navy officers in September and deported them Oct. refugee status in Malaysia, and one officer and his wife were detained upon arrival in Yangon, it said.

Three prison staff and five visitors died after the bombs hit a crowd queuing to drop off parcels for inmates at prison housing political detainees.

The glass around the counter was all shattered.” However, a little-known anti-government group known as the special task agency of Burma later posted a statement on Telegram saying it had carried out the attack as “retaliation against (junta chief) Min Aung Hlaing” and the continued oppression of revolutionary fighters by prison personnel. At least 13 visitors, including a nine-year-old boy, and five prison personnel were reported to be being treated for injuries at Insein township hospital.