NUG urges international action against military council airstrikes that killed 37 people, including 11 minors, in Nawng Cho and Sin Ku - Khit Thit Media

Thailand’s Unreliability as Broker Makes Peace Even More Elusive in Myanmar

Following a February meeting between Thailand’s foreign minister and Myanmar’s junta leader, March 2025 finds Thailand more proactively involved in seeking peace in Myanmar while bringing order to the Thai-Myanmar frontier. Still, Thailand might be an unreliable mediator, and competing interests could complicate peace efforts.  Four years after a 2021 military coup, Myanmar is a failed state embroiled in civil war. The country crucially shares a…

Six monks among nine people killed by Myanmar junta airstrike on TNLA-held town

The attack targeted a monastery in the northern Shan State town of Nawnghkio used to shelter displaced civilians

Yangon, March 17 The Ministry of Human Rights of the National Unity Government (NUG) today called for international action against the military council’s airstrikes that killed 37 people, including 11 minors, in Nawng Cho and Sint Ku. NUG urges countries committed to human rights and children’s rights to take immediate and effective action against the terrorist military regime in Myanmar through international human rights mechanisms and internat…

March 17, 2025. KIC The military council attacked the Sein Yadana Pariyatti monastery in Naung Chai Township, northern Shan State, at 5:30 p.m. on March 17, dropping four 250-pound bombs and firing machine guns from a jet fighter, killing nine monks and civilians, according to the TNLA. The Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) said that nine people, including two monks and four laypeople, one male and two female, were killed in the explosion. …