by a Burmese army airstrike. (Photo credit: Thierry Falise/LightRocket via Getty Images) In June 2023, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) reported that the Tatmadaw “has violated the ...

Tatmadaw translates literally as “armed forces,” and is made up of the Army (Tatmadaw Kyi), Air Force (Tatmadaw Lay), and Navy (Tatmadaw Ye). In English we have used the term “Burma army ...

BGP5 – the letters stand for Border Guard Police – was the Myanmar military junta's last stand in northern Rakhine State, which lies along the border with Bangladesh.

Many Rohingya youths are becoming victims of exploitation and despair because of the unavailability of options to study and work and make a decent living A possible retaliation by Myanmar forces ...

The Arakan Army, which is also active in southern Chin, seized the strategic township of Paletwa close to the Indian border from the Tatmadaw earlier this year, expanding northward from its ...

After a coup in 1962, the Tatmadaw, Myanmar's military ... border in October 2016 killed nine police officers. The army responded to that attack with a month-long crackdown on unarmed Muslim ...

Tatmadaw translates literally as "armed forces," and is made up of the Army (Tatmadaw Kyi), Air Force (Tatmadaw Lay), and Navy (Tatmadaw Ye). In English we have used the term "Burma army" for the ...

The social media platform also said it will also be banning Tatmadaw-linked commercial entities ... Facebook attacking the Rohingya and Muslims. Army chief Min Aung Hlaing - now the country's ...

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"At this rate, all that will be left of the Tatmadaw [military] will be Min Aung Hlaing and a flagpole," wrote another. The capture of BGP5 also shows the Arakan Army to be one of the most ...