Myanmar's junta said Tuesday it would heed regional pleas to stop violence only when the country "returns to stability", as fresh fighting erupted with a major ethnic rebel group along its eastern border.The nation has been in turmoil since the military ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi in a 1 February coup, triggering a protest movement that security forces have met with deadly crackdowns.The violence – in which more than 750 people have been killed by security forces, a

Every day at sunrise, Daisy* and her sisters set out to spend several hours in the heat cleaning debris from the previous day’s protests off the streets of Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city.Protests have erupted around the country since the military seized control of the government after arresting democratic leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, on 1 February, and declared a year-long state of emergency.According to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), a non-profit rights organisation

Myanmar's junta again postponed court proceedings against deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday, her lawyers said, as they fight for permission to visit her 12 weeks after she was detained.The country has been in turmoil since the military ousted the Nobel laureate in a 1 February coup, shunting the country back into junta rule after a brief experiment with democracy. Large swathes of the population have taken to the streets in protest, with security forces unleashing a brut

Moe* is 53 years old and has stage three breast cancer.She used to go for radiotherapy treatment every three weeks at the state-run Mandalay General Hospital in northern Myanmar.But the day after the military deposed Myanmar's elected government in a coup on 1 February, the hospital closed its doors.

Human rights groups and people in Myanmar have criticised an agreement between Min Aung Hlaing, the general who seized power in a military coup nearly three months ago, and Southeast Asian leaders to end the violence-hit nation’s crisis, saying it fell short of restoring democracy and holding the army to account for killing hundreds of civilians.There were no immediate protests in Myanmar’s big cities a day after the armed forces’ chief flew to Jakarta to meet leaders of the Associat

Myanmar's shadow government of ousted lawmakers has welcomed a call by Southeast Asian leaders for an end to "military violence" after their crisis talks in Jakarta with junta leader Min Aung Hlaing.The general attended a high-level summit Saturday with leaders from the 10-country Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to discuss Myanmar's mounting crisis.Since the military ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi in a 1 February coup, Myanmar has been in an uproar

Southeast Asian leaders held Myanmar crisis talks Saturday with junta leader Min Aung Hlaing who has become the focus of international outrage over a military coup and crackdown that has left more than 700 dead.The senior general was at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting in Indonesia's capital, marking his first foreign trip since security forces staged a coup that ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi in early February.Mass protests by an angry population have

A weekend summit on the Myanmar coup crisis will be a test for ASEAN's credibility and unity, a senior Thai official said Thursday, amid an escalating death toll and violence across its western border.Security forces in Myanmar have killed at least 739 people since a 1 February military coup ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, according to a local monitoring group.The Myanmar military has stepped up the use of lethal force as it seeks to quell mass protests against the junta, with a

The Myanmar military's crackdown on anti-coup protesters has displaced close to a quarter of a million people, a United Nations (UN) rights envoy said Wednesday.The junta has stepped up its use of lethal force to quash mass demonstrations against a 1 February coup which ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi.At least 738 people have been killed and 3,300 are languishing in jails as political prisoners, according to a local monitoring group."Horrified to learn that...

The European Union (EU) on Monday announced sanctions on 10 Myanmar junta officials and two conglomerates linked to the military over the coup and bloody crackdown on protesters in their country.The military has ramped up its attempts to crush dissent following mass demonstrations against its ousting of civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, with at least 737 civilians killed and the press increasingly under attack.International pressure has been steadily building on the junta, although it has so