Network for Human Rights Documentation - Burma

ND-Burma မှ “အာဏာရှင်များ ကြီးစိုးရာအရပ်တွင် ဒီမိုကရေစီ မရှင်သန်နိုင်-အတုအယောင် ရွေးကောက်ပွဲနောက်ပိုင်း စစ်အုပ်စု၏ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးချိုးဖောက်မှုများ” ဆိုသည့် နောက်ဆုံးထုတ် အစီရင်ခံစာအကျဥ်းချုပ်အား ယနေ့ထုတ်ဝေလိုက်သည်။
ဤအစီရင်ခံစာသည် စာတမ်းအခြေပြု သုတေသန၊ ဖြစ်ရပ်မှန် လေ့လာမှုများနှင့် ကွန်ရက်အဖွဲ့ဝင်အဖွဲ့အစည်းများ၏ စောင့်ကြည့်လေ့လာမှုများကို အခြေခံထားပြီး အတုအယောင် ရွေးကောက်ပွဲအပြီးတွင် စစ်တပ်မှ အပြစ်ဒဏ်ပေးခြင်းမှ ကင်းလွတ်နေမှုကို ဆက်လက် ကျင့်သုံးနေ ကြောင်းနှင့် အထူးသဖြင့် စစ်အာဏာရှင်တို့မှ ရက် (၁၀၀) စီမံချက်ကို ကြေညာခဲ့ပြီး နောက်တွင်လည်း လူ့အခွင့်အရေးချိုးဖောက်မှုများ ဆက်လက်ဖြစ်ပွားနေကြောင်းကို ဖော်ပြထားပါသည်။

Today, the Network for Human Rights Documentation-Burma (ND-Burma) releases its latest briefing paper, “Democracy Dies Where Dictators Thrive: Human Rights Violations by the Military Junta Post-Sham Election.”

Our findings draw on desk research, case studies, and observations from our member organizations to highlight how military impunity persists in the aftermath of the sham election and, specifically, how human rights violations have continued since the junta announced its 100-Day plan.
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သတင်းထုတ်ပြန်ချက် : https://shorturl.at/558L9
PR: https://shorturl.at/4dpMa

Briefer:https://ndburma.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Democracy-Dies-web.pdf

လူ့အခွင့်အရေး မှတ်တမ်း ကွန်ရက်-မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ (𝐍𝐃-𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐦𝐚) မှ “အာဏာရှင်များ ကြီးစိုးရာ အရပ်တွင် ဒီမိုကရေစီ မရှင်သန်နိုင်- အတုအယောင် ရွေးကောက်ပွဲနောက် ပိုင်း စစ်အုပ်စု၏ လူ့အခွင့် အရေး ချိုးဖောက်မှုများ” ဆိုသည့် အစီရင်ခံစာအကျဉ်း ထုတ်ပြန်

𝑩𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝑬𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉

၂၀၂၆ ခုနှစ် ဇွန်လ ၁၆ ရက်။

လူ့အခွင့်အရေး မှတ်တမ်းကွန်ရက် - မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ (ND-Burma) မှ စစ်အုပ်စု၏ အတုအယောင် ရွေးကောက်ပွဲ လှည့်ကွက်နှင့် နောက်ဆက်တွဲ ဖြစ်ပေါ်လာသည့် လူ့အခွင့်အရေး ချိုးဖောက်မှုများကို ထုတ်ဖော်ထားသော အစီရင်ခံစာအကျဉ်း (Briefing Paper) အသစ်ကို ယနေ့ ထုတ်ပြန်လိုက်သည်။
၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် စစ်တပ်၏ အာဏာသိမ်းရန် ကြိုးပမ်းမှုနောက်ပိုင်းမှစ၍ စစ်တပ်သည် တရားဝင်မှု ရရှိရန်အတွက် နိုင်ငံတကာအသိုင်းအဝိုင်းကို လှည့်ဖြားရန် အစဉ်တစိုက် ကြံစည်လာခဲ့သည်။ နိုင်ငံ တကာနှင့် ဒေသတွင်း အရေးပါသည့် သက်ဆိုင်သူများအနေဖြင့် စစ်အုပ်စုခေါင်းဆောင်များကို မည် သည့်နည်းနှင့်မျှ အစိုးရတစ်ရပ်အဖြစ် အသိအမှတ်ပြုခြင်း သို့မဟုတ် လက်ခံအသိအမှတ် ပြုခြင်း မပြုသင့်ပေ။
ND-Burma မှ ထုတ်ပြန်လိုက်သော ဤအစီရင်ခံစာအကျဉ်းသည် အာဏာသိမ်းခေါင်းဆောင် မင်းအောင်လှိုင်က ကိုယ့်ကိုယ်ကိုယ် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ သမ္မတအဖြစ် ကြေညာပြီးနောက်ပိုင်း အရပ်သား ပြည်သူများအပေါ် ရာဇဝတ်မှုများ ဆက်လက်ကျူးလွန်နေကြောင်းကို ထပ်မံသက်သေပြခြင်းလည်း ဖြစ် သည်။
ND-Burma အဖွဲ့ဝင်များသည် မြေပြင်တွင် ပိုမိုဆိုးရွားလာနေသော လူ့အခွင့်အရေး အခြေ အနေများကို ဆက်လက်မှတ်တမ်းတင်လျှက်ရှိသည်။ ဤအစီရင်ခံစာအကျဉ်းတွင် အဖွဲ့ဝင်များ စုဆောင်းထားသည့် အချက်အလက်များနှင့် မီဒီယာများတွင် ဖော်ပြထားသည့် လေကြောင်းတိုက် ခိုက်မှုများ၊ မြေပြင်ထိုး စစ်များကို ထည့်သွင်းဖော်ပြထားသည်။
စစ်အုပ်စုသည် အပြစ်မဲ့ အရပ်သားပြည်သူများအပေါ် တိုက်ခိုက်မှုများ ရပ်တန့်ခြင်း မရှိ သကဲ့သို့ လျော့နည်းသွားခြင်းလည်း မရှိပေ။ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတစ်ဝန်း စစ်ဘေး စစ်ဒဏ်သင့်နေသော ပြည်သူလူထုသည် အမိုးအကာ၊ ဆေးဝါး၊ အစားအစာနှင့် သန့်ရှင်းသော သောက်သုံးရေ စသည့် အခြေခံ အသက်ရှင်သန် ရေးအတွက် အကူအညီများ အရေးပေါ် လိုအပ်လျှက်ရှိသည်။
ထောင်ပေါင်းများစွာသော ပြည်သူများသည် ၎င်းတို့၏ လူ့ဂုဏ်သိက္ခာနှင့် အခြေခံအခွင့် အရေးများ ဆုံးရှုံးနေချိန်တွင်၊ ယုံကြည်ကိုးစားထိုက်မှု မရှိသည့် စစ်အုပ်စုသည် ၎င်းတို့ကိုယ်ကို တရားဝင် အုပ်ချုပ်သူများအဖြစ် အမွှန်းတင်လျှက်ရှိသည်။
ထိခိုက်ခံစားရသော ပြည်သူများအတွက် လိုအပ်သည့် အကူအညီပေးရေး ကွာဟချက်မှာ ရန်ပုံငွေ အကြပ်အတည်းကြောင့် ပိုမိုကျယ်ပြန့်လာလျှက်ရှိပြီး၊ နေရပ်စွန့်ခွာ ထွက်ပြေးနေရဆဲ ပြည်သူများထံ အရေးပေါ် လူသားချင်းစာနာထောက်ထားမှု အကူအညီများ ပံ့ပိုးပေးနိုင်စွမ်းမှာလည်း ပိုမို ကန့်သတ်ခံ နေရသည်။
မြန်မာစစ်တပ်သည် လူသားချင်းစာနာထောက်ထားမှု အကူအညီများကို လက်နက်သဖွယ် အသုံး ချလျှက်ရှိပြီး၊ အသက်ကယ်ဆယ်ရေးအတွက် အရေးပါသော အထောက်အပံ့ပစ္စည်းများ ဘေးကင်း လုံခြုံစွာ ပို့ဆောင်နိုင် ရေးအတွက်လည်း ခက်ခဲကြန့်ကြာစေရန် လုပ်ဆောင်နေသည်။
သို့သော်လည်း တော်လှန်ရေးခေါင်းဆောင်များနှင့် ရပ်ရွာအခြေပြု လူ့အခွင့်အရေး ကာကွယ် သူများ၏ ကြံ့ကြံ့ခံနိုင်စွမ်းနှင့် ဇွဲလုံ့လမှာ ဆက်လက်တည်ရှိနေဆဲဖြစ်သည်။ အပြောင်းအလဲ ဖော် ဆောင်သူများအဖြစ်သာမက စစ်အာဏာရှင်စနစ် ကင်းစင်သော ရေရှည်တည်တံ့သည့် ငြိမ်းချမ်း ရေးကို တည်ဆောက်ရန် ကြိုးပမ်းနေသူများအဖြစ်လည်း ၎င်းတို့၏ အသံကို နားထောင် အသိအမှတ် ပြုရမည်ဖြစ်သည်။
စစ်တပ်၏ လူသားမျိုးနွယ်အပေါ် ကျူးလွန်သည့် ရာဇဝတ်မှုများအတွက် တာဝန်ယူမှုရှိစေရန် ပိုမိုထိ ရောက်သော ဖိအားပေးမှုများ လိုအပ်နေသည်။ ထိလွယ်ရှလွယ်သော အုပ်စုများသည် ၎င်း တို့၏ အခြေခံအခွင့်အရေးနှင့် လွတ်လပ်ခွင့်များ ငြင်းပယ်ခံရကာ ဖိနှိပ်မှုများကို ခံစားနေရပြီး၊ အကြပ် အတည်း ပိုမိုနက်ရှိုင်းလာသည်နှင့်အမျှ ယင်းအခြေအနေများကို ဆက်လက်ကြုံတွေ့နေရမည် ဖြစ် သည်။
မိမိတို့အနေဖြင့် နိုင်ငံတကာမှ သက်ဆိုင်သူ အင်အားစုများအား အကြမ်းဖက်စစ်အုပ်စုနှင့် ဆက်နွှယ်မှု အားလုံးကို ဖြတ်တောက်ရန် တိုက်တွန်းအပ်သည်။ အထောက်အပံ့များ၊ အရင်းအမြစ် များနှင့် ရန်ပုံငွေများကို ဒီမိုကရေစီအရေး လှုပ်ရှားမှုများနှင့် အပြုသဘောဆောင်သော အပြောင်း အလဲများကို ဦး ဆောင် အကောင်အထည်ဖော်နေသည့် လူ့အခွင့်အရေး ကာကွယ်သူများထံ ဦးစားပေး ပံ့ပိုးသင့်သည်။
အထူးသဖြင့် နယ်စပ်ဖြတ်ကျော် အကူအညီပေးရေး အစီအစဉ်များအပါအဝင် ဒေသခံ ပြည်သူများအတွက် လူမှုဝန်ဆောင်မှုများ ပံ့ပိုးပေးနေသော အရပ်ဘက် လူမှုအဖွဲ့အစည်းများကို ပိုမို ထောက်ပံ့ကူညီရန် လိုအပ်သည်။

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English

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐃𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧-𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐦𝐚 (𝐍𝐃-𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐦𝐚) 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫 | 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲 𝐃𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞: 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐕𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭-𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐦 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

16 June 2026

Today, the Network for Human Rights Documentation-Burma (ND-Burma) releases its latest briefing paper addressing the junta’s sham election ploy and the human rights violations that have followed. Since the attempted coup in 2021, the military has schemed to fool the international community through its bid for legitimacy. Global and regional stakeholders must not acknowledge or recognize the junta leadership as a government of any kind. The briefing paper released by ND-Burma serves as further evidence of the ongoing perpetration of crimes against civilians since coup leader Min Aung Hlaing asserted himself as the President of Burma.

ND-Burma members have continued to document the worsening human rights situation on the ground. This briefing paper includes member data and media coverage of air and ground attacks. The military junta has neither ceased nor slowed its attacks against innocent civilians. Conflict-affected communities across Burma are in urgent need of basic shelter, medicine, food and clean water. As thousands are deprived of their humanity, the junta is lauding itself as the rightful ruler, despite having no credibility.

Gaps in support for affected populations continue to widen amid a funding crisis that has increasingly limited many organizations' ability to provide emergency humanitarian assistance to those who remain displaced. The Burma Army has weaponized aid, making it difficult to safely deliver life-saving items. While the resilience of resistance leaders and community human rights defenders endures, their voices must be heard as agents of change and as those dedicated to a lasting peace in the country, one that does not include militarized control.

Additional pressure is required to hold the military accountable for its crimes against humanity. Vulnerable groups have suffered oppression and denial of their basic rights and freedoms, and this will persist as the crisis deepens. We urge global stakeholders to cut all ties with the terrorist military junta. Support, resources, and funding should be directed toward the pro-democracy movement and human rights defenders driving positive change, especially civil society organizations providing local social services, including cross-border aid.

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Weekly update on the situation in Karen, Mon & Dawei since the failed coup: June 2026 | Week Two
⚠️ 12+ Arrested
⚠️ 6+ Detained
⚠️ 13+ Injured
⚠️ 7+ Killed
In the past week, junta forces carried out three airstrikes targeting the Ye Chaung Phyar area of Ye Township, Mon State, killing one civilian, more than ten members of revolutionary forces, and injuring many others, according to the Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) field sources.

𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭
𝐑𝐞𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐇𝐚𝐭𝐞, 𝐔𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞: 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐲𝐚 𝐀𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN Peoples' Forum, Malaysia, together with 74 civil society organizations across Southeast Asia, condemns the rising tide of hate speech and discrimination against the Rohingya community in Malaysia and demand the following:
1️⃣ Change.org to remove the “Remove Rohingya from Malaysia” from its platform for violating its community guidelines, which prohibit hate and discrimination as well as false and misleading information;
2️⃣ Malaysia to ratify the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol and enact a comprehensive legal framework to protect the rights, safety, and dignity of Rohingya and other refugee communities;
3️⃣ Myanmar must recognise the Rohingya as citizens with equal rights under the law and take immediate action to end all atrocity crimes, systemic discrimination, and violence committed against them;
4️⃣ ASEAN must end its non-interference policy and strengthen its collective response to the Rohingya crisis by holding Myanmar, including former regimes and the military junta, accountable for violations against the Rohingya, facilitating regional protection mechanisms for refugees and enhancing humanitarian support; and
5️⃣ International community to remain vigilant in ensuring that international humanitarian and human rights laws are respected, providing protection to vulnerable populations.

(BANGKOK, June 9, 2026)–The Myanmar military junta committed war crimes in Bago Region on March 5 this year when it conducted an airstrike on a Buddhist monastery sheltering civilians, opened fire on civilians from the ground, and arbitrarily detained survivors, said Fortify Rights today. A new investigation reveals how the junta’s airstrike on the monastery and ground attack on civilians killed 28 civilians, including women and children.

U.N. member states should urgently increase support for international accountability for ongoing and unmitigated mass atrocity crimes in Myanmar and should reject coup-leader Min Aung Hlaing’s attempts to legitimize military rule, said Fortify Rights. U.N. member states should also provide political, economic, and material support for Myanmar’s home-grown democratic movement, including the National Unity Government (NUG) and state-level governance initiatives.

The possible war crimes documented by Fortify Rights in Bago Region took place on March 5, 2026, in Yae Twin Kone village tract, where Myanmar military junta forces bombed the local monastery, entered villages, and detained civilians, according to survivor testimony and pro-democracy forces on the ground. Two days later, on March 7, pro-democracy forces carried out a rescue operation to free the civilians detained by the military junta.

“𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙖𝙘𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝘽𝙖𝙜𝙤 𝙍𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙮𝙖𝙣𝙢𝙖𝙧 𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙟𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙖’𝙨 𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙜𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙯𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙘𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙖𝙨 𝙨𝙪𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚,” 𝙨𝙖𝙞𝙙 𝙅𝙤𝙝𝙣 𝙌𝙪𝙞𝙣𝙡𝙚𝙮, 𝘿𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙧 𝙖𝙩 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙛𝙮 𝙍𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨. “𝙊𝙪𝙧 𝙞𝙣𝙫𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙜𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙬𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙟𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙖 𝙛𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙪𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙘𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙗𝙖𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙙𝙞𝙙 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙛𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙘𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙨. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙤𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙪𝙙𝙙𝙝𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙘𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙖 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙚𝙙 𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙩. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙛 𝙘𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙨, 𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙡𝙪𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙣, 𝙢𝙖𝙮 𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙬𝙖𝙧 𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙪𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮.”

A man holds a photograph on a smartphone of victims of a Myanmar military airstrike on a Buddhist monastery in Bago Region that killed civilians on March 5, 2026. ©Brennan O’Connor, 2026
In March and April 2026, Fortify Rights was in Bago Region and interviewed 13 individuals about the detention of civilians and bombing of a Buddhist monastery, including survivors and witnesses, resistance fighters, and medical workers. Fortify Rights conducted all interviews in person and reviewed photographs of civilians killed at the monastery, as well as drone footage documenting civilians in junta detention, provided by members of a local People’s Defense Force (PDF). The NUG in Bago Region also provided Fortify Rights with casualty records, including the names of 26 people killed in the airstrike on March 5 and another two killed in Yae Twin Kone village tract. Fortify Rights was unable to independently verify all of the names on the list.

According to information received and analyzed by Fortify Rights, in the early morning of March 5, 2026, Myanmar junta columns from Light Infantry Battalion 20, Infantry Battalion 264, and Light Infantry Battalion 439—under Light Infantry Division 77—entered Yae Twin Kone village tract and carried out attacks, including killings and arbitrary detentions. Civilian survivors said the Myanmar military opened fire on local residents, conducted an airstrike on the local monastery sheltering civilians, and deployed at least one drone attack, killing a total of 28 civilians.

One survivor, 43, whose wife and son were killed by the junta on March 5, described to Fortify Rights how Myanmar military junta soldiers detained him alongside dozens of villagers in Kyaung Kone village before conducting an airstrike on the nearby Buddhist monastery.

“𝘼𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 5 𝙖.𝙢., 𝙄 𝙬𝙤𝙠𝙚 𝙪𝙥 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙢𝙮 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙗𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙫𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙪𝙩𝙨,” 𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙞𝙙. “𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙢𝙚. 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙖𝙡𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙮 𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚. 𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 5:30 𝙖.𝙢.”

The survivor continued: “They tied our hands together with a long rope. They told us, ‘You are PDF.’ We explained, ‘We are not PDF.’ They accused us, saying, ‘Don’t lie. We will cut your balls.’”

This survivor estimated that between 30 to 40 Myanmar junta soldiers were present with his group of detained civilians, all wearing military uniforms and speaking Burmese: “We know the difference between the PDF and the military,” he said.

The man also described soldiers appearing intoxicated after snorting a white powdery substance while operating inside the village. He told Fortify Rights:

There was one soldier who looked crazy. … Everyone [among junta soldiers] was using drugs at the time. I could move my head [to look around while tied up]. I could see the soldiers using drugs inside the house. It looked like white powder. The house was right next door to where we were tied up, around three meters away.
Fortify Rights was unable to independently verify the exact substance used by the soldiers. However, substance abuse—particularly of illicit stimulants—among Myanmar junta soldiers is well-documented and has often been linked to violent and unpredictable behavior during military operations.

While lying face down on the ground with his hands tied behind his back, this witness said he overheard soldiers communicating by walkie-talkie about attacking the monastery inside the village. He told Fortify Rights:

On the radio, they told their commander, “PDFs are in the monastery.” … What I remember them saying on the walkie-talkie was, “Inside the monastery. Attack the monastery. Bomb it.” … I was three or four meters away from the soldiers talking on the radio. I was lying face down with my hands tied behind my back, but I could hear everything.
The survivor later heard a soldier report over the radio: “We shot one kid.” Afterward, the man realized the soldier was referring to his son, whom the junta killed in the incident.

“My son is 14 years old,” he said. “He was afraid, and he ran, but they shot him.”

Junta soldiers released this survivor and allowed him to return home at night, but the soldiers threatened to shoot him if he or others fled the area. Upon release, he searched for his family and described the moment he found them: “I went to the [Buddhist] monastery [where the airstrike had hit] and saw my wife’s dead body. … I saw her body in a corner. … I found my son dead near a bell.”

The military allowed survivors to have a burial ceremony on March 6 to bury 26 civilians killed in the airstrike and two dead from reported shootings in the village. The bodies were buried in two mass graves.

This witness insisted the attack was deliberate and not the result of crossfire between the military and resistance forces, saying: “At that time, [the soldiers] were already near the monastery. We told them, ‘PDF is not in the village.’ The soldiers knew there was no resistance.”

He believed the motive behind the attack was clear: “The military wanted us to stop supporting the resistance.”

For decades, the U.N., governments, non-governmental organizations, and journalists have documented how the Myanmar military has deliberately targeted civilians as part of a broader strategy to sever popular support for democratic resistance movements and ethnic resistance organizations. Through airstrikes, village burnings, arbitrary arrests, torture, forced displacement, and attacks on civilian infrastructure, the junta has repeatedly sought to terrorize communities into submission and punish populations perceived to support opposition forces.

In Yae Twin Kone village tract, NUG aerial footage on file with Fortify Rights shows more than 20 residents in civilian clothes lying face-down on the ground as villagers dig a grave nearby for bodies wrapped in cloth.

A 21-year-old People’s Defense Force (PDF) fighter leaves a lit cheroot on the grave of a fallen friend at a resistance base in Karen State near Bago Region. The two joined the pro-democracy resistance together after the 2021 coup and shared the habit of smoking cheroots together. ©Brennan O’Connor, 2026

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Another resident, 43, told Fortify Rights that junta soldiers held her hostage in Yae Twin Kone village tract after detaining her on the morning of March 5 while she was on her way to give alms:

I could see the soldiers beating the men [outside on the road]. …. They used long bamboo sticks to hit three or four guys. They were tied up as they were beaten. I could see they were beaten on the back, shoulders, and hips. They were yelling, asking, ‘Where do the PDF live?’ The soldiers said, “Open your phone with your password.” The men stayed lying down and didn’t respond. So the men were beaten.
The woman overheard the orders to attack the Buddhist monastery. She said:

I was sitting close to the soldiers. They were on their radios. … I heard one soldier tell them on the walkie-talkie, “to attack the monastery.” … It was about 10 minutes [afterwards]. I heard the bomb drop. The sound was so loud. We stayed quiet. … I heard one bomb. … After that, I was very afraid [to pay attention] and didn’t hear anything else.
She continued:

Around 5 p.m. [on March 5], the soldiers told us not to leave the village. They said, “If anyone runs away from the village, we will burn and kill everyone in the village.” We all went home, made a small amount of food, and slept in the bunker. I was so afraid they were going to attack the village with more drones and jets.
When asked why villagers were detained, and why the area was targeted in airstrikes, she said: “I believe that the soldiers thought we were supporting the resistance soldiers.”

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Another resident from Kyaung Kone village told Fortify Rights that he was part of a small team that went to the Buddhist monastery after the airstrike, saying:

I don’t know the time the airplane came. It was a jet fighter. I was hiding in the bunker. I heard the explosion. It was a big bang sound. I heard one explosion. We waited for five minutes, and I went out to check the temple. … I was trying to help the injured. … Not far from the temple, there were some military [soldiers] shooting at me. It was about 15 meters away. I gathered my strength and thought I needed to be brave. They shot once at me, and I laid down, then I ran to the temple.
Upon arriving at the monastery, the man explained that he helped several young people flee the scene: “One was injured on the head. He was bleeding, a boy. The blood came down his face. When I came to the temple, the young people said, ‘Please help me, uncle.’”

Later, the man helped carry a wounded woman, telling Fortify Rights:

She was injured on her chest, head, and leg. She was bleeding from the head and chest. I was carrying her on my back. My whole shirt was filled with blood. It was a major injury. The time from when I carried her from the temple to the house where she died was around four hours. … She must have died around 2 p.m. … I don’t know her name. She was over 40 years old. She was injured in the airstrike.
Fortify Rights showed the man photographs of the Buddhist monastery, and he described the building’s details, including the direction from which he entered. He said: “The monastery was totally destroyed. … The roof was completely gone. The first floor collapsed to the ground. It was concrete, and the floor is wood.”

The man also reported seeing a dead pregnant woman in the monastery: “The pregnant woman was dead, and the baby’s hand was coming out of her stomach. … She was going to deliver the baby soon.”

The man also described assisting with the burial in two mass graves on March 6, saying:

When the soldiers gave us two hours to dig the graves, we had to bring the dead bodies [from the monastery]. … I carried the dead bodies on my shoulder and brought them into the grave. They put [the group of men] in a line. They put the babies on the legs of the women. That’s how the mass graves were done.

In rural Bago Region, most residents depend on agriculture. While some own land, many work as daily labourers. ©Brennan O’Connor, 2026

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According to the NUG, on March 7, PDF units under the NUG Ministry of Defense, together with the Karen National Liberation Army— the armed wing of the Karen National Union, one of Myanmar’s oldest ethnic resistance organizations—conducted the rescue operation to free civilians detained.

So Daw, a PDF commander, described the high-stakes rescue mission launched after learning that the junta had arbitrarily detained civilians. Although the operation succeeded in freeing the civilians, he told Fortify Rights it was “extremely risky.”

A commando from the PDF Spring Warrior Column described how they entered the village after 10 p.m. on March 7 to push junta forces out and rescue the civilian hostages. As the military junta retreated, the fighters supported civilians fleeing. “I was guiding them,” the PDF soldier explained from a makeshift clinic bed, where he was recovering from wounds sustained just a week after the rescue in a different battle in Bago. “Children were holding my hand as I led them out [on March 7]. We carried an older, wounded woman on a stretcher made from bamboo and a longyi.”

The detention of civilians and attacks on civilians in Bago may amount to serious violations of international humanitarian law. Since the military coup in 2021, armed conflict between the Myanmar military junta and pro-democratic resistance forces has intensified nationwide.

Bago has become one of the most strategically significant battlegrounds in the effort to overthrow the military junta that illegally seized power in 2021. Located between Yangon, the country’s largest city, and the military capital Naypyidaw, the region serves as a critical corridor. In recent years, revolutionary forces have established strongholds in parts of Bago, increasingly challenging the junta’s control.

Under international humanitarian law, or the laws of war, including Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, parties to an armed conflict are prohibited from committing “violence to life and person,” including murder, mutilation, cruel treatment, and torture of persons taking no active part in hostilities. Common Article 3 also prohibits the taking of hostages and requires humane treatment of civilians and other protected persons.

The bombing of a Buddhist monastery sheltering civilians and the killing of an unarmed 14-year-old boy may constitute war crimes under international law. Parties to an armed conflict are required at all times to distinguish between combatants and military objectives, which may be lawfully targeted, and civilians and civilian objects—including religious sites—which are protected from attack unless and for such time as they are being used for military purposes. Parties must also take all feasible precautions to verify that targets are military objectives and to minimize harm to civilians and civilian objects.

The Myanmar military junta’s repeated airstrikes on civilian areas in places like Bago Region,Karenni and Kachin states, and elsewhere do not serve any legitimate military purpose and likely constitute war crimes. These attacks continue a broader pattern of junta attacks against civilian targets throughout the country, said Fortify Rights.

“The laws of war protect civilians from being deliberately attacked and killed,” said John Quinley. “The massacre in Bago underscores the urgent need for justice and an end to impunity for crimes committed by Myanmar’s military regime. U.N. member states, including Myanmar’s neighbors in ASEAN, can and should do more.”

Photo credit: A father mourns the loss of his wife and son following a Myanmar military junta attack in Bago Region on March 5, 2026. ©Brennan O’Connor, 2026.

NEW: On March 5, the Myanmar military junta conducted an airstrike on a Buddhist monastery in the Bago Region, opened fire from the ground, and arbitrarily detained residents. 28 civilians were killed, including women and children.

“This massacre … reflects the Myanmar military junta’s ongoing strategy of terrorizing civilians in areas seen as supporting the resistance,” said John Quinley, Director at Fortify Rights. “The killing of civilians … may amount to war crimes.”

U.N. member states should increase support for accountability for mass atrocity crimes in Myanmar and refuse to legitimize military rule.

Read the full news release: https://www.fortifyrights.org/mya-inv-2026-06-09/

WHEN THE SKY ENABLES ATROCITIES: Junta Aerial Campaign Against Civilians and Crimes Against Humanity in Myanmar"
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Since 2021, the sky over Myanmar, which once brought a sense of peace and serenity, has been turned into a source of constant terror and dread for the civilian population. The terrorist military junta has weaponized the skies, exploiting its aerial power to systematically target and raze schools, hospitals, and religious buildings in a deliberate attempt to eradicate the existence and resilience of the people. The sky is no longer a natural canopy of comfort; it has become the greatest daily threat, raining down destruction, trauma, and death upon innocent lives.
Today, the Ministry of Human Rights (MOHR) of the National Unity Government officially releases a comprehensive report exposing these systematic, large-scale aerial atrocities committed by the terrorist military junta against the civilian population, titled: “WHEN THE SKY ENABLES ATROCITIES: Junta Aerial Campaign Against Civilians and Crimes Against Humanity in Myanmar".
📊 Key Findings from the Report
* Air Strike Operations : Up to May 2026, over 5,500 incidents and more than 12,000 individual air strikes utilizing fighter jets, helicopters, drones, and other aerial systems have been systematically monitored and documented.
* Civilian Casualties : These devastating air strikes have resulted in the death of over 5,700 civilians, including approximately 760 children, and have injured more than 9,500 individuals, including over 1,000 children.
* Infrastructure Destruction : Raining down from above, these attacks heavily targeted protected civilian infrastructures, resulting in the damage or destruction of 752 religious buildings, 502 schools, and 170 healthcare facilities.
* Most Targeted Regions : Sagaing Region faced the highest concentration of aerial terror with over 2,600 recorded incidents, while Mandalay, Magway, and Rakhine State also experienced significantly high rates of attacks.
* Mass Displacement : Driven by relentless air strikes and accompanying ground offensives, over one million civilians have been forcibly displaced from their communities, triggering a massive humanitarian crisis.
The concrete evidence presented in this report firmly demonstrates that the actions of the military junta constitute War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity under the Rome Statute. It serves as a critical call to action for the international community to cut off aviation fuel supplies and stand decisively with the people of Myanmar.
Ministry of Human Rights, is committed to bring equality ,peace and Justice for people of Myanmar by all means .
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