This pre-recorded message was delivered by CHRO's Advocacy and Networking Officer on the Side Event panel The Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar: A focus on Paletwa, Southern Chin State on the sidelines of the UN Human Rights Council 58th Session in Geneva, Switzerland on 19th March 2025
The video transcript of the proceeding of "Burma in Transition: Next Steps to Advance Religious Freedom and Improve Conditions for Religious Victims" is now available on the USCIRF YouTube channel. The text of CHRO's written testimony is also available.
500 new infantry troops are being deployed to Chin State as SAC junta prepares for a major offensive against Chin resistance forces. Fighting have erupted in different parts of Chin State, including in Hakha town where LIB266 have fired rockets into civilian neighborhoods indiscriminately. Hundreds have fled their homes and villages in southern Chin State following the brutal killing...
Junta soldiers caught in the acts of committing arson in Thantlang on November 26, 2021. The soldiers are seen running around the street torching multiple houses in Seikpyoye Ward of Thanglang, in the neighborhood adjacent to where they are comping at the Natala School compound (building rows above the street
One of the last persons to leave Thantlang as it was burning on October 29 describes what he saw on the day more than 190 houses in Thantlang, a town of over 10,000 residents, were burned to the ground. (I remained in Thantlang because I needed to keep my mother company as she refused
Burmese soldiers from LIB 266 and local police training civilian conscripts as militias (CHRO – September 2009)