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

A boat carrying more than 100 Rohingya refugees, including dozens of children, landed on the coast of Indonesia's westernmost province Aceh early Sunday, police said.The vessel, which sailed from a Rohingya camp in Bangladesh, arrived shortly after 3:00 am on a beach in Bireun district.It was carrying 114 people, including 58 men, 21 women and 35 children aged under 15 years old, police said."We will conduct a general health check-up and COVID-19 rapid antigen tests for these foreig

Myanmar's junta has revoked the citizenship of several members of an opposition government dominated by Aung San Suu Kyi's toppled administration, it said Saturday.Ousted lawmakers formed the "National Unity Government" (NUG) weeks after the military's power-grab last year, and have vowed to overturn the coup.The NUG has since been declared a "terrorist" organisation by the junta.Those stripped of citizenship include spokesman Sasa – who goes by one name – m

At least 17 people are feared dead after a landslide trapped dozens of workers inside a Myanmar jade mine, sources and local media said Tuesday.The incident came on Monday evening near Hpakant township in northern Kachin state – the same region where a massive landslide in 2020 entombed 300 workers in the country's worst ever mine disaster.Pictures of the scene showed the aftermath of the landslide, with a broad swathe of brown earth and rock covering the pockmarked side of a hill.A loca

Myanmar hit out Monday at a genocide case brought against it by The Gambia for alleged persecution of Rohingya Muslims, urging the United Nations’ (UN) highest court to drop the claim on legal grounds.Banjul dragged Myanmar before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in 2019, accusing the predominantly Buddhist country of genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority after a bloody 2017 military crackdown.When the case opened in December 2019 Aung San Suu Kyi personally represented Myanma

Myanmar's junta suffered a fresh diplomatic blow Thursday as regional bloc, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) barred its top diplomat from attending an upcoming meeting of foreign ministers.Cambodia, which currently holds the bloc's rotating chairmanship, said there had been too little progress on a "five-point consensus" agreed by leaders last year to try to defuse the crisis gripping Myanmar.The country has been in turmoil since the military ousted Aung

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) urged an "immediate" end to violence in Myanmar on Wednesday and for the junta to allow a special envoy tasked with facilitating talks to visit as soon as possible.The 10-nation regional bloc has led diplomatic efforts to end the chaos unleashed in Myanmar by the coup last year, which triggered mass protests and a deadly crackdown on dissent.But violence has continued, with anti-junta groups clashing regularly with the military and

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