“These attacks are not only cowardly—they are criminal,” said Salai Mang Hre Lian, Human Rights Program Manager at CHRO and recipient of the 2024 U.S. Department of State Human Rights Defenders Award. “Bombing villages, churches, and children in the middle of a humanitarian disaster shows the junta’s utter contempt for life, faith, and the laws of war. This is a...
The Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO), together with the Myanmar Accountability Project and their legal partners and survivors of junta atrocities, has filed an appeal with the Philippine Department of Justice (DOJ), urging it to reconsider a recent decision not to pursue a full investigation into the war crimes case filed against top Myanmar military generals under the country’s...
Human Rights by Numbers The six month report card is out. Life under the junta since the February 2021 has been nothing short of hellish for the Chin people like the rest of the country. The Burma Army has been more brutal than ever and has perpetrated serious violations amounting to war crimes and crimes
Achara Ashayagachat and AFPhttp://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/205148/junta-faces-threat-claims7 November 2010 Burma’s military regime and its political proxies faced growing accusations yesterday of threats and intimidation on the eve of the country’s controversial first election in two decades. Up to 29 million eligible Burmese voters will go to the polling stations today, less than a week before opposition leader Aung
Al Jazeerahttp://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2010/11/20101169237967672.html6 November 2010 Myanmar is set for its first general elections in 20 years, but opposition parties still in the fray are already questioning the fairness of the vote. In the run-up to Sunday’s vote, the All Mon Region Democracy Party and the Rakhine National Development Party (RNDP) have accused the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development
27 January 2010: More than 40 youths from southern Chin State have escaped to India in recent days to avoid ongoing forcible recruitment drive that targets people between the age of 15 and 45. The latest in a series of measure to boost local supports for the junta ahead of the planned 2010 elections, the
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