School supplies delivered - March 2026 School supplies delivery in Brigade 6 - photos and a video from General Nerda Bomya - to Project KARE

School supplies delivered to Brigade 6 in Kaw Thoo Lei / Karen State in Burma / Myanmar. We're grateful to our donors who empower Project KARE with their generosity to provide needed basic tools for education.

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School supplies delivered to Brigade 6 in Kaw Thoo Lei in Burma. Thank you to Gen. Bomya. We're deeply grateful to our donors who empower Project KARE with their gifts providing essential supplies.

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Five years after the military coup on 1 February 2021, the people of #Myanmar continue to suffer under a brutal regime.

📢The world must act! Continued inaction is tantamount to collaboration with repression and violence.

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Thousands marched for democracy in Myanmar after the 2021 military coup; Some later died in prison - DVB Shwe Theingi was instantly drawn to Wutt Yee Aung when they met at the start of their second year at Myanmar’s Dagon University in 2019. The 19-year-old zoology major stood out with her boyish clothes...

At least 74 political prisoners aged 18-35 have died in detention since the 2021 military coup, according to previously unreported data from the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP).

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Join us opening of the Photography and Art Exhibition “The Coup Years” on 27January from 5:30-7:00 pm SEA-Junction (4th Floor BACC).

Photos are ready to display at Photography and Art Exhibition “The Coup Years” , which will take place on 27 Jan- 8 Feb 2026.
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Myanmar military claims a record seizure of illicit drugs at production sites - DVB The military in Myanmar, long noted as one of the world’s biggest producers of heroin and methamphetamine, has announced what it describes as the country’s largest-ever seizures of illicit drugs and e...

The military, long noted as one of the world’s biggest producers of heroin and methamphetamine, has announced what it describes as the country’s largest-ever seizures of illicit drugs and equipment used to produce them english.dvb.no/myanmar-mili...
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A moment of reckoning for Venezuela but how about for Myanmar? - DVB Guest contributor Alan Clements History does not always announce itself through treaties or speeches. Sometimes it breaks open through a single act that reorders the moral landscape and forces the wor...

"Myanmar is now among the world’s largest producers of methamphetamines, fentanyl precursors, and transnational scam operations," writes Alan Clements for DVB English News Opinion.

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Myanmar to free 6,186 prisoners in Independence Day amnesty during election - DVB The regime in Naypyidaw announced that it will release 6,186 prisoners under an amnesty marking Myanmar’s Independence Day, regime media reported on Saturday, a week after an election deemed a “sham” ...

The regime in Naypyidaw announced that it will release 6,186 prisoners under an amnesty marking Myanmar’s Independence Day, regime media reported on Saturday.

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Myanmar refugees in Malaysia face growing uncertainty as a UN refugee agency documentation process is challenged by a new Malaysian initiative during ongoing refugee deportations.

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The parts of Myanmar the military junta doesn't want you to see - DVB As voters snaked around Mandalay’s golden Eain Daw Yar Pagoda to cast their ballots, a low-flying fighter jet whizzed above them, heading towards the city’s south-west. On the ground, security personn...

Branded one of the deadliest regimes in the world and cast off as an international pariah, Myanmar’s military is trying desperately to rehabilitate its image.

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Military-backed party in Myanmar takes lead in first phase of polls - DVB Myanmar’s military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) is leading after the first phase of a contentious general election, regime media reported, in the first vote since a 2021 milita...

Myanmar’s military-proxy Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) is leading after the first phase of an election, regime media reported.

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'The ballot or the bullet': Myanmar's military 'sham' elections - DVB Guest contributor James Shwe On December 28, the Myanmar military junta concluded the first phase of an electoral performance that was as tragic as it was farcical. In a fractured nation where the mil...

"The countries that officially sent observers read like a roll call of authoritarian enablers: Russia, China, Belarus, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Nicaragua. These are not impartial arbiters; they are partners in repression." english.dvb.no/the-ballot-o...
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Survivors of landmines and unexploded ordnance in Myanmar - DVB Landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO), which are munitions that have failed to detonate, continue to cause injuries that permanently alter lives in conflict-affected areas of Myanmar. “A landmine ex...

Landmines and unexploded ordnance continue to cause casualties in areas of Myanmar affected by conflict. UNICEF states that 357 individuals have been injured in Myanmar in the first half of 2025.

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Why regional faith in Myanmar’s sham elections will not end the conflict - DVB Guest contributor Igor Blazevic  There is a view now widely shared in policy and diplomatic circles among Myanmar’s neighbors and countries dealing with the post-coup crisis. One example captures this...

"Myanmar’s neighbors have thus constructed a narrative convenient to themselves: that Min Aung Hlaing and the military will moderate their behavior after elections," writes Igor Blazevic for DVB English News Opinion #whatshappeninginmyamar
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Myanmar goes to the polls amid civil war and humanitarian crisis - DVB Myanmar heads to the polls on Sunday as it battles a civil war that has ravaged parts of the country as well as one of Asia’s worst humanitarian crises. Already one of Southeast Asia’s poorest countri...

Myanmar heads to the polls on Sunday as it battles a civil war that has ravaged parts of the country as well as one of Asia’s worst humanitarian crises.

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Myanmar refugees in Malaysia protest against regime elections - DVB Guest contributor Séan Donal Barry Myanmar’s refugee community in Malaysia held a protest at a community centre in Kuala Lumpur’s Pudu district on Friday against the military regime elections set to b...

Myanmar’s refugee community in Malaysia held a protest at a community centre in Kuala Lumpur’s Pudu district on Friday against the military regime elections set to begin Sunday.

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Campaigning ahead of Myanmar’s regime elections that begins on Sunday has been shorn of the energy of previous polls, residents said.

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Myanmar will hold its first elections in five years since the 2021 military coup - DVB Myanmar will hold the first phase of a general election on Sunday, its first vote in five years and an exercise that critics say will neither restore the country’s fragile democracy undone by a 2021 a...

Myanmar will hold the first phase of a general election on Sunday, its first vote in five years and an exercise that critics say will neither restore the country’s fragile democracy undone by a 2021 military coup.

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Sagaing Federal Unit Hluttaw appoints 12 new officials to its interim administration - DVB The Sagaing Federal Unit Hluttaw (SFUH), an interim legislative body formed after the military coup on Feb. 1, 2021 in Sagaing Region, appointed 11 ministers, including a deputy chief minister, and an...

The Sagaing Federal Unit Hluttaw, an interim legislative body formed after the 2021 coup in Sagaing Region, appointed 11 ministers, including a deputy chief minister, and an attorney general on Dec. 23 english.dvb.no/sagaing-fede...
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Eight months since earthquake with survivors expected to face threat of electoral violence at polls - DVB Regime employees told DVB that they don’t want to participate in the regime’s 2025–26 elections after being assigned to help guard polling stations during voting on Dec. 28, Jan. 11 and Jan. 25, 2026....

A regime employee in Naypyidaw, who lost her son and husband during the march 28 quake, told DVB she's now concerned for her own safety during the elections due to the threat of violence at the polling stations english.dvb.no/eight-months...
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"When the formation of the Spring Revolution Alliance was announced on December 15, the reaction across Myanmar’s social media was a mix of hope and immediate anxiety," writes James Shwe english.dvb.no/the-spring-r...
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Two outcomes are certain: first, the military-aligned party will be recorded as winning and, second, the government in exile – the National Unity Government – will fade even further into the background.
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Kachin Independence Army rejects regime’s 2025-26 elections in Kachin State - DVB The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) told DVB that it will not be hosting the regime’s 2025-26 elections – with voting dates on Dec. 28, Jan. 11 and Jan. 25, 2026 – in territory under its control, nor w...

The Kachin Independence Army told DVB that it will not be hosting the regime’s 2025-26 elections with voting dates on Dec. 28, Jan. 11 and Jan. 25 in territory under its control, nor will it recognize results english.dvb.no/kachin-indep...
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'Respect Myanmar' report on regime's 2025-26 elections - DVB Myanmar citizens living in Thailand express no interest in voting in the regime 2025-26 elections starting on Dec. 28, according to a report titled Respect Myanmar by the Burma Affairs and Conflict St...

Myanmar citizens living in Thailand express no interest in voting in the regime elections starting on Dec. 28, according to Respect Myanmar by the Burma Affairs and Conflict Study released on Dec. 22 in Chiang Mai, Thailand english.dvb.no/respect-myan...
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UN Security Council holds closed-door meeting on Myanmar with two special envoys - DVB The U.N. Security Council convened a closed-door meeting to discuss the situation in Myanmar at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Monday. Julie Bishop, the U.N. Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on...

The U.N. Security Council convened a closed-door meeting to discuss the situation in Myanmar at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Monday.

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Christians in Karenni and Chin states celebrate Christmas under threat of airstrikes - DVB The Karenni Army, the armed wing of the Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP), ordered people in Karenni State on Dec. 19 not to gather in large groups for prayers or celebrate at churches through...

Christians in Karenni and Chin states celebrate Christmas under threat of airstrikes

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Three regime troops and one People’s Defense Force member killed during fighting in Sagaing Region - DVB The People’s Defense Force (PDF) told DVB that one of its members was killed in fighting with regime forces, and claimed that three regime troops were killed and seven others were detained, in Wuntho ...

The People’s Defence Force (PDF) told DVB that one of its members was killed in fighting with regime forces, and claimed that three regime troops were killed and seven others were detained, in Wuntho Township of Sagaing Region on Sunday english.dvb.no/three-regime...
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Explosion near People’s Party office in Yangon during campaign for regime elections - DVB An explosion near the People’s Party office in Yangon’s Mingala Taungnyunt Township on Upper Pansodan Road destroyed the party’s election campaign billboards and damaged an unknown number of vehicles ...

An explosion near the People’s Party office in Yangon’s Mingala Taungnyunt Township destroyed the party’s election campaign billboards and damaged an unknown number of vehicles on Sunday, residents and party members told DVB english.dvb.no/explosion-ne...
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Karenni State youth organizations call political party candidates in regime 2025-26 elections ‘traitors’ - DVB Youth representatives from 108 organizations in Karenni State called on residents to boycott the regime’s 2025-26 elections, calling political party candidates as “traitors to the Karenni people.” Khu...

Youth representatives from 108 organizations in Karenni State called on residents to boycott the regime’s 2025-26 elections, calling political party candidates as “traitors to the Karenni people.”

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National Unity Government criticized for closing Ministry of Women, Youth and Children Affairs - DVB Pro-democracy and civil society organizations from Myanmar criticized the National Unity Government (NUG), a group representing elected lawmakers ousted during the military coup on Feb. 1, 2o21, for c...

Pro-democracy and civil society organizations from Myanmar criticized the National Unity Government (NUG) for closing the Ministry of Women, Youth and Children Affairs, following its cabinet reshuffle on Dec. 8 english.dvb.no/national-uni...
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