Tag: Myanmar

The massive traffic of methamphetamine and other illicit drugs emanating from a small areas in Southeast Asia indicates no signs of decreasing, the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime ...

A coup d’état in Myanmar commenced on the hours of February 1st, 2021, when democratically elected leaders of the country’s ruling party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), were toppled ...

Countries have adopted all sorts of methods in punishing offenders. Death Penalty has been one of those, that is pronounced on law offenders, whose crimes demands death sentence. Several Human ...

This year’s Chairperson of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), President Joko Widodo of Indonesia, has admitted that no progress has been made to end the civil strife which ...

Southeast Asian leaders have denounced an attack on an aid convoy that the regional group had arranged for displaced people in Myanmar, calling for an immediate stop to violence and ...

As part of this week's amnesty for over 2,000 political prisoners, Myanmar's military commuted the death sentences of 38 people. The country's human rights commission said it was "deeply delighted" ...

A human rights monitoring group has disclosed in a report that Myanmar’s military is increasingly turning to airstrikes with deadly results to try to crush stiff armed resistance. The military is heavily ...

A human rights group and 16 people from Myanmar have filed a criminal complaint in Germany seeking punishment of Myanmar’s generals. The group demands that Myanmar’s military be punished for ...

UN Human Rights Chief, Volker Türk on Friday, December 2, 2022 expressed shock that more than 130 people have now been sentenced to death by military courts behind closed-doors in ...

Four democracy activists have been executed by Myanmar's military in what is believed to be the first use of capital punishment in decades. The four, including activist Ko Jimmy and ...