The world risks creating a “lost generation” of children in Myanmar unless it takes immediate steps to protect them from the violence perpetrated by the military since it seized power in February 2021, a United Nations (UN) human rights expert has said.“The junta’s relentless attacks on children underscore the generals’ depravity and willingness to inflict immense suffering on innocent victims in its attempt to subjugate the people of Myanmar,” Tom Andrews, UN Special Rapporteur on the situat

She has half a million followers on Instagram, leads a glamorous lifestyle and describes herself as the "little girl" of former premier Thaksin Shinawatra – one of the most influential and controversial figures in modern Thai history.The 35-year-old Paetongtarn Shinawatra, youngest of billionaire tycoon Thaksin's three children, is now launching herself into the country's deeply divided political scene ahead of a national election due by March 2023.The move brings the Shin

A year after Myanmar erupted into civil war prompted by a February 2021 military coup, more than half a million people have been internally displaced and millions are unable to access basic food and medical needs.For women, the hardships are compounded by the challenge of managing their monthly periods. “I have to use one sanitary pad for the whole day and night.

Thousands of monks celebrated the birth of Buddha at a junta-organised event in Mandalay on Saturday, highlighting a division in the clergy since last year's coup in Myanmar.Since the coup that ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, more than 1,800 people have died in a brutal military crackdown on dissent, according to a monitoring group.Some monks have joined street protests opposing the power grab, while other religious leaders have defended the military junta.Ahead of Buddha's

Myanmar's junta will "annihilate" coup opponents, army chief Min Aung Hlaing said Sunday as the military staged a show of force on the anniversary of its bloodiest crackdown so far on democracy protests.The Southeast Asian country has been in chaos since a putsch in February 2021, with more than 1,700 people killed in crackdowns on dissent, according to a local monitoring group.Across Myanmar "People's Defence Force" fighters – often armed with homemade or rudime

Exactly one year ago, Myanmar's military seized power on 1 February, ousting the civilian government and arresting its de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.Nearly 1,500 people have since been killed and thousands of others arrested as the junta wages a bloody crackdown on dissent.Here is a look back at the year since the coup, which ended a decade-long experiment with democracy after half a century of military rule.Pre-Dawn Raids Soldiers detain Suu Kyi and her top allies during pr

Myanmar's ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi was "indispensable" to restoring democracy to the country, the Philippines foreign minister said Sunday, echoing condemnation of her recent sentencing by a junta court.The Nobel laureate, who has been detained since the 1 February coup last year, was convicted on 10 January of three criminal charges and sentenced to four years in prison.The junta court has since hit Suu Kyi, 76, with five new corruption charges – adding to a sle

A court in Myanmar has sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to four more years in prison, in the latest of a series of trials.She was convicted for the illegal possession and import of walkie-talkies and breaking COVID-19 rules.Suu Kyi was first convicted in December and given a reduced jail sentence of two years.She has been detained since a military coup last February and faces about a dozen charges, all of which she denies.Her trials have been widely condemned as unfair.The charges in

A Myanmar junta court on Monday is expected to deliver verdicts on ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi in several delayed cases, the latest in a slew of judgements which could see her jailed for decades.The Nobel laureate has been detained since 1 February when her government was forced out in an early morning coup, ending Myanmar's short-lived experiment with democracy.The generals' power grab triggered widespread dissent, which security forces sought to quell with mass detentions and b

Cambodia's strongman ruler Hun Sen held talks Friday with the Myanmar junta – the first foreign leader to visit since the generals seized power almost a year ago.Myanmar has been in chaos since the 1 February coup which ousted Aung San Suu Kyi's civilian government and ended the country's decade-long dalliance with democracy.More than 1,400 civilians have been killed as the military cracks down on dissent, according to a local monitoring group, and numerous anti-junta militias