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London, UK, August 24, 2026 - Nine years after the Myanmar military launched genocidal attacks against the Rohingya on August 25, 2017, Rohingya in Rakhine State continue to face violence, arbitrary detention, forced labour, land confiscation, severe restrictions on movement and access to humanitarian assistance, and renewed displacement, said Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN) today. BHRN has documented the Myanmar military’s continuing persecution of the Rohingya as part of an ongoing genocide. The United League of Arakan (ULA) and its armed wing, the Arakan Army (AA), are also committing serious abuses against Rohingya in areas under their control.
On Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day, BHRN remembers the Rohingya men, women and children who were killed, subjected to sexual violence, injured and driven from their homes during the 2017 attacks, as well as the survivors and families who have waited nine years for justice. Rohingya are still denied their identity and citizenship, restricted in their movement and ability to work, dispossessed of their land, and subjected to systematic discrimination, while those responsible for international crimes against them remain largely unpunished.
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London, UK - BHRN has been monitoring and documenting that since the coup in 2021, the military junta has been torturing and killing Burma’s citizens with no regard for their safety or well-being. The latest air strike on Kanbalu Township is a horrific example of this pattern. BHRN believes that as long as the military junta continues to pursue its coup and suppression agenda, Burma’s citizens will continue to suffer. In addition, BHRN notes that air strikes have become a common tactic deployed by the military junta in response to resistance by anti-coup groups since late 2022.
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Today marks two years since the attempted military coup in Burma. Over the last two years, the people of Burma have bravely resisted the junta’s violent attempt to take total control of the country. In the face of mass, unwavering public resistance, the junta continues to increase its campaign of brutality and savagery as it carries out killings, torture, forced disappearances, sexual violence, and airstrikes against the civilian population throughout the country.
Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN) has so far documented from 1st February 2021 to 31stDecember 2022. According to the documentation, the total number of civilians killed by the junta reached 3160 people. There were 363 people who were tortured and killed within 24 hours of their arrest by the junta. Arson attacks by the junta forces on civilian properties across the country destroyed 46,350 houses. Sagaing Division has the largest rates of all the above-mentioned crimes committed by the junta. Freedom of religion and belief was also significantly violated during the period, with hundreds of religious buildings burned and destroyed, including Churches, Buddhist monasteries, and Mosques.
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Foreign Minister expresses commitment to continue dialogue with Myanmar CSOs
7 September 2022: Representatives of six Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) from Myanmar on Tuesday held a 90-minute-long dialogue with the Malaysian Foreign Minister Dato Saifuddin Abdullah and exchanged views on the multi-faceted crises in Myanmar. Present in the meeting were representatives from the Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN), Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO), Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG), Myanmar Cultural Research Society (MCRS), Progressive Voice (PV), and Women’s League of Burma (WLB).
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29 Dec 2021 – Yangon/London -- Since the coup on Feb 1, the Myanmar military junta has been committing acts of serious human rights crimes against civilians in different forms. The regime consistently violates freedom of expression and freedom of movement, the torture of civilians is occurring daily, and extrajudicial punishment, killings and enforced disappearances haven’t stopped in the 10 months since the coup.