Conscription escapees tell of forced junta recruitment, inadequate training
Read more on this topic in Burmese Several accounts of new recruits fleeing from military training sites in central Magway and Bago regions show that...
Category : Myanmar
Mass killings on the rise in Myanmar for fourth straight year
Read RFA coverage of this topic in Burmese. The number of mass killings in Myanmar has risen for the fourth year in a row, with...
Rohingya groups condemn ‘global neglect’ after 427 refugees feared drowned at sea
Rohingya rights groups on Thursday decried “regional inaction and global neglect” over the plight of the Muslim minority from Myanmar after more than 400 refugees...
High-rise collapse exposed Thai failure to protect laborers it needs for construction
BANGKOK – Seven weeks after a deadly earthquake triggered the collapse of a high-rise construction site in Bangkok, labor rights groups say the disaster has...
Fighting and freedom: Essential stories from RFA Burmese
Since its inception, Radio Free Asia has been a crucial source of independent news in Myanmar where the dominant military has brooked no criticism, even...
Junta bombs a school in central Myanmar, kills at least 20 students
Junta forces bombed a school in central Myanmar on Monday, killing at least 20 students, local sources and the country’s exiled civilian administration told Radio...
Thai building collapse exposes flaws in its migrant-heavy construction sector
BANGKOK – A month after a deadly earthquake triggered the collapse of a high-rise construction site in Bangkok, labor rights groups say the disaster has...
Myanmar’s ousted government calls for international aid after junta kills hundreds
Myanmar’s ousted civilian government called for international intervention, accusing the military regime of committing “war crimes” by killing nearly 400 people within a month, despite...
Junta bombs rebel territory in western Myanmar, kills children, elderly
A junta jet bombed a rebel-controlled village in western Myanmar on Tuesday, killing more than a dozen civilians, an official from the Arakan Army, or...
Junta bombs a school in central Myanmar, kills at least 17 students
Junta forces bombed a school in central Myanmar, killing more than a dozen children, the country’s exiled civilian administration told Radio Free Asia on Monday....
