Guest contributor Jaivet Ealom Nine years ago, on August 25, 2017, the Myanmar military unleashed its most devastating campaign of persecution against the Rohingya. The chief architect of that genocide was the military’s then commander-in-chief, Min Aung Hlaing. For decades, the Rohingya’s rights were dismantled step by step. First they were stripped of ethnic recognition […] The post The Rohingya crisis cannot be repatriated away appeared first on DVB .
Last week’s mass killing of meditators at a monastery in Sagaing’s Myaung Township is just the junta’s latest attack on a religion it professes to defend
Nine years after the Rohingya genocide, I stood at the Bangladesh-Myanmar border and finally saw the homeland I had spent my lifetime imagining. What I saw was breathtakingly beautiful. What I know is happening there is devastating. And what the world is now normalizing should frighten us all. Guest contributor Yasmin Ullah On August 14, […] The post Arakan Is Still There. So Are We. appeared first on DVB .
Panic is spreading across urban wards of Mandalay following reports that the regime in Naypyidaw plans to double conscription quotas starting in September. Residents report that ward administrators have been instructed to raise recruitment mandates from 2–5 males per intake up to 4–10 males (aged 18–35), prompting families to hide draft-eligible youth or plan immediate […] The post Mandalay residents fear doubled conscription quotas as military target lists expand nationwide appeared first on DVB .
Nine years after Myanmar security forces launched violent clearance operations in Arakan State, the Rohingya population continues to endure ongoing trauma, forced displacement, and severe physical threats without a single perpetrator held legally accountable, according to a statement by Nicholas Koumjian, Head of the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM), on Aug. 24. Scope of […] The post UN Myanmar Mechanism demands accountability nine years after 2017 Rohingya crackdown appeared first on DVB .
Regime spokesperson Khaing Khaing Soe told pro-regime media on Sunday that Myanmar will send its first cosmonauts to space in 2028 through bilateral agreements with Russia among the 12 pacts signed between regime leader Min Aung Hlaing and President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Aug. 17-20. The agreement also covers plans to establish a satellite-based search […] The post Myanmar regime and Russia’s Roscosmos sign agreements to send first cosmonaut to space by 2028 appeared first on DVB .
Myanmar regime leader Min Aung Hlaing announced on Friday that regime by-elections will take place early in 2027. Speaking following high-level talks with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk, Min Aung Hlaing reaffirmed plans to hold supplementary voting in 102 townships where polls were excluded during the regime’s 2025–2026 phased election due to active conflict […] The post Min Aung Hlaing announces Myanmar regime by-elections in ‘early 2027’ during visit to Belarus appeared first on DVB .
The opposition National Unity Government (NUG) has officially announced the dissolution of its Ministry of Human Rights to pave the way for an independent Union Human Rights Commission, marking a structural transition five years after the civilian administration was established in the wake of the 2021 military coup. It stated that once the proposed National […] The post NUG dissolves Human Rights Ministry to launch independent commission amid surge in airstrikes appeared first on DVB .
US citizen jailed in China designated ‘wrongfully detained’ Family members of detained Myanmar scholar Min Zin, a naturalized U.S. citizen and executive director of the Institute for Strategy and Policy (ISP-Myanmar), welcomed the U.S. government’s decision to designate him as “wrongfully detained” after he was arrested in China on June 3. “When I heard the news, […] The post US citizen jailed in China ‘wrongfully detained’; Beijing rejects Washington label for Min Zin appeared first on DVB .
“Art for Hope,” a week-long fundraiser for flood-affected communities across Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady Region and northern Thailand’s Nan Province, began at Vimutti Art Garden in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on Saturday. The event features art exhibitions and musical performances at Memories of Chiang Mai until Aug. 29. All proceeds generated from art sales and donations will go […] The post ‘Art for Hope’: Chiang Mai fundraiser rallies support for flood victims in Myanmar and Thailand appeared first on DVB .
When U.S. Sen. Darline Graham struggled to answer in a debate whether the U.S. has a national security interest in Taiwan and the South China Sea, she drew criticism for saying national security was “not my thing.” Taiwan and the South China Sea have long been major issues in U.S. foreign policy, and tensions involving […] The post Why Taiwan and the South China Sea matter to the US and the world appeared first on DVB .
