by Comms APHEDA | Oct 31, 2024 | Our campaigns, Thai-Myanmar Border
The lucrative scamming industry is of strategic interest to the Myanmar military and associated forces to fund their war on the Myanmar people, with Myanmar becoming a significant hub for transnational crime in the wake of the 2021 military coup. Transnational...
by Comms APHEDA | Oct 31, 2024 | Our campaigns, Thai-Myanmar Border
The monthly average of Myanmar military airstrikes now exceeds 100, and this trend is expected to rise. The impact of airstrikes has been devastating, terrorising civilians by targeting schools, hospitals, religious buildings, and camps for internally displaced...
by Comms APHEDA | Oct 30, 2024 | Uncategorised
Since the military coup in Myanmar in 2001, the number of Burmese migrants workers and refugees seeking safety and job opportunities in Thailand has surged, with cities like Mae Sot and Chiang Mai—both near the Thai-Myanmar border—becoming major destinations....
by Comms APHEDA | Sep 6, 2024 | Thai-Myanmar Border
Original article published on the IFJ website on 2 September, 2024. Journalists Myo Myint Oo and Aung San Oo, associated with the independent online media outlet Dawei Watch, were sentenced to life and 20 years imprisonment respectively by a military court in the city...
by Comms APHEDA | Jun 27, 2024 | Thai-Myanmar Border, Women
ALTSEAN project narrative report November-December 2023 Women in Myanmar face severe repression and violence from the military junta. Patriarchal social norms and widespread gender-based violence further limit women’s involvement in public life. Despite these...
