Groups in Chin, Kayah and Shan states and Sagaing Region are recording civilian deaths in regime airstrikes, shelling and shooting.
Amendments bring previously independent broadcasting watchdog directly under regime control.
Around 19,000 residents who abandoned Pauktaw last week have been stranded in the countryside, while electricity has been cut in the town.
Resistance groups tell residents of Madaya Township to flee for safety as they follow the lead of the Brotherhood Alliance and drive junta troops out of the area.
Junta air strikes are a constant threat for the inhabitants of camps for displaced people in Kayah State.
The protests were a rare display of displeasure at Beijing by the regime, which has indirectly accused China of arming the alliance.
The rapid victories of the Northern Alliance disprove notions that the military is both unassailable and the key to solving domestic political problems.
The Irrawaddy’s latest roundup includes incidents in Shan and Rakhine states and Sagaing, Bago and Tanintharyi regions.
Bangkok said Myanmar junta authorities helped 266 Thais to travel from Laukkai to the Chinese border; they will be repatriated via Kunming.
The Arakan Army says it will retaliate for the murder of civilians in Pauktaw Township after a regime counterattack.
The resistance groups in Kayah State say they have taken around 20 junta positions since launching their offensive on November 11.
Anti-regime groups across Myanmar are reporting that junta soldiers and police are surrendering as their will to fight breaks.
The UN insisted «reprisals are absolutely forbidden» for Myanmar regime soldiers captured amid an offensive launched by anti-military armed groups.
Fighting between the Arakan Army (AA) and the regime troops has erupted since Monday in northern part of Myanmar’s western Rakhine State.
Also this week, pro-regime demonstrators claimed China gave the green light for the ethnic resistance’s border offensive.
After the 2021 coup the donors, NGOs and CSOs of ‘Peaceland’ decamped from Yangon to Thailand, but their Western, ‘we-know-best’ narrative remains largely unchanged.
Civilians remaining in the Kayah State capital report repeated regime airstrikes and shelling as resistance groups fight to seize the city.
Numerous massacres and airstrikes have been reported since Operation 1027 began on October 27, according to numerous agencies.
They welcomed the success of Operations 1027 and 1111 in the hinterlands, but said offensives are needed in the major urban centers to speed the regime’s downfall.
A striking teacher and two other villagers were also killed in the unprovoked air strike on Matupi Township’s Wai Luu Village.
The Irrawaddy’s latest roundup includes incidents in Mon, Shan and Rakhine states and Sagaing and Mandalay regions.
Ming Xuechang, wanted by China over telecom and online scams in Kokang’s Laukkai that targeted Chinese citizens, shot himself while being arrested, say junta authorities.
As the MNDAA ethnic army closes in, caravans of people are fleeing the lawless town of Laukkai in northern Shan, a center for online scam operations.
The junta has issued an arrest warrant for Bai Yingcang, the son of the junta-appointed Kokang administrator, blaming him for online scams.
Myaing People’s Defense Force said it has destroyed several regime bases in a Pauk Township village.
Politicians from military-backed USDP purged after Min Aung Hlaing rails against corruption in scam hub on Chinese border.
Over 160 Thai victims of trafficking remain in the resistance-targeted town of Laukkai despite the regime agreeing to release them earlier this month.
Karen National Union’s spokesman tells The Irrawaddy that the 18,500 junta troops killed or injured in his territory have permanently weakened the regime.
Pauktaw near the state capital Sittwe has come under naval bombardment and air strikes since it was seized by the Arakan Army on Thursday morning.
Over 600 civil society organizations call on two governments to stop lending legitimacy to a military regime that is committing mass atrocities against its own people.
Meeting in Jakarta, they urged all parties in Myanmar ‘to cease violence and exercise utmost restraint’ and called on the junta to implement the bloc’s five-point plan.
It said the displaced were from Shan, Chin, Kayah and Mon states and Sagaing Region, adding that at least 75 civilians have been killed and 94 wounded.
At a four-hour meeting in California, the two leaders spoke of the need for the world's two biggest economies to cooperate, but their rhetoric on Taiwan remained at odds.
Anti-regime Operation 1027 continues to expand across the country as Min Aung Hlaing’s vowed counteroffensive fails to materialize.
The Karenni Nationalities Defense Force says a major regime stronghold in Loikaw has fallen and at least 110 soldiers have been killed.
