"It is meaningless to treat a fleeting glimpse of Suu Kyi as evidence that the junta is ready to end its reign of terror. The real test of its intentions is whether it releases political prisoners, & ends attacks on civilians..." #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar myanmar-now.org/en/news/suu-...

Suu Kyi’s ICRC meeting is a strategic move by Myanmar’s regime, not a sign of change

The junta’s latest empty gesture is a cost-free way to win greater international acceptance, not evidence of any softening of its position

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SAC-M, an independent group of international human rights experts, called on ASEAN to enforce its Five-Point Consensus by introducing measurable benchmarks and consequences for the regime. Read more in today's Daily Briefing: english.dvb.no/malaysia-say...

အာဆီယံသည် ရက်သတ္တပတ်နှစ်ပတ်ကြာ အရှက်တကွဲအကျိုးနည်း ဖြစ်ခဲ့ရပြီးနောက် မြန်မာ့အရေး ဘုံသဘောတူညီချက်ငါးရပ်နှင့်ပတ်သက်ပြီး ၎င်း၏ “ညီညွတ်သောသဘောထား” ကို ထပ်လောင်းအတည်ပြုခဲ့သည်။ အာဆီယံသည် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ တရားဝင်နိုင်ငံရေးအစုအဖွဲ့များ၊ အရပ်ဘက်လူမှု အသိုင်းအဝိုင်းအစုအဖွဲ့များနှင့် ထိတွေ့ဆက်ဆံမှုများ တိုးမြှင့်ဆောင်ရွက်သွားရမည်။ tinyurl.com/4r68a37f

'Accused war criminal Min Aung Hlaing is now deploying his proxy ‘parliament’ to heap further humiliation onto #ASEAN,” said SAC-M's Ben Lee. He said the bloc should prepare a new framework beyond the 5PC if the regime continued to reject it.' #Myanmar myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan...

Min Aung Hlaing rejects ASEAN consensus on Myanmar as bloc’s position

The junta leader made the remarks in a speech to the country’s military-backed parliament marking his first 100 days as president

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"SAC-M has called on #ASEAN to immediately enforce binding compliance deadlines & escalating penalties on Myanmar’s junta, warning that five years of soft diplomacy have ended in total humiliation." #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar english.dvb.no/sac-m-demand...

SAC-M demands benchmarks and penalties as Myanmar regime mocks ASEAN peace plan - DVB

The Special Advisory Council for Myanmar (SAC-M), an independent group of international human rights experts, has called on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to immediately enforce bi...

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#ASEAN just closed a humiliating fortnight by reaffirming its 5PC on #Myanmar. Now it must finally require the junta's full compliance and finalise: 🔹compliance benchmarks 🔹an implementation deadline 🔹a series of punitive steps for junta non-compliance 🔗 specialadvisorycouncil.org/2026/07/asea...

"SAC-M accused #ASEAN of rewarding the junta’s violence w/out securing a single concession in return. Indeed, as the Bangkok meeting was happening, airstrikes in Karen state reportedly killed 2 women & injured several others." theconversation.com/why-engageme... #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #Myanmar

Why engagement with Myanmar’s junta is risky without proof of life for Aung San Suu Kyi

Southeast Asian leaders say direct diplomacy with Myanmar is the only way to end the five-year civil war. Opponents of the military regime aren’t convinced.

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အထူးသံတမန် Lazaro သည် ဇူလိုင် ၁၂ ရက်တွင် စစ်အုပ်စုနိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီးနှင့်တွေ့ဆုံခဲ့ခြင်းသည် ၄င်းတို့၏လူသတ်လုပ်ရပ်များနှင့် အာဆီယံအားဖီဆန်မှုအပေါ် ဆုချီးမြှင့်ခဲ့ခြင်းဖြစ်သည်။ မနီလာမြို့တွင် ကျင်းပလျှက်ရှိသည့် အာဆီယံနိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီးများအစည်းအဝေးကို အခွင့်အရေးတစ်ခုအဖြစ်အသုံးချကာ အာဆီယံ၏ဂုဏ်သိက္ခာကိုပြန်လည်အဖတ်ဆယ်ရမည်။ 🔗 tinyurl.com/vsffef52

In its latest, APHR notes Secretary Lazaro's response to SAC-M's criticism, which reaffirmed the 5PC as ASEAN’s primary reference on #Myanmar. "APHR stresses that a restated commitment is not a substitute for the verifiable outcomes the 5PC is meant to produce..." 🔗 aseanmp.org/publications...

APHR Letters to ASEAN Chair and Timor-Leste Renew Call for Proof of Life as AMM Week Begins in Manila - APHR

JAKARTA, 20 July 2026—ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) has written to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., in his capacity as ASEAN Chair, and to President José Ramos-Horta of Timor-Leste, ur...

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In direct reply to SAC-M’s latest statement, Secretary Lazaro has confirmed that- 🔹 #ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ meeting with the #Myanmar junta’s “foreign minister” last week “was not, and should not be mischaracterized as an abandonment” of ASEAN’s 5PC 1/3 #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

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Secretary Lazaro has brought a disastrous mix of timidity & poor judgment to her role as Special Envoy of the #ASEAN Chair on #Myanmar. ASEAN Foreign Ministers must use their approaching meeting to stem the damage & salvage ASEAN's shredded reputation. 🔗 specialadvisorycouncil.org/2026/07/the-...

Secretary Lazaro has brought a disastrous mix of timidity & poor judgment to her role as Special Envoy of the #ASEAN Chair on #Myanmar. ASEAN Foreign Ministers must use their approaching meeting to stem the damage & salvage ASEAN's shredded reputation. 🔗 specialadvisorycouncil.org/2026/07/the-...

အာဆီယံနိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီးများက မြန်မာစစ်အုပ်စု၏ “နိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီး” နှင့် ဘန်ကောက်မြို့၌ တွေ့ဆုံသည့်အစီအစဉ်သည် အာဆီယံဘုံသဘောတူညီချက် (၅) ရပ်ကို မှေးမှိန်စေပြီး စစ်အုပ်စုဆက်လက်ရှင်သန်ရေးအတွက် လိုအပ်နေသောတရားဝင်မှုကို အလွယ်တကူပေးလိုက်ရာရောက်သည်ဟု မြန်မာနိုင်ငံဆိုင်ရာအထူးအကြံပေးကောင်စီ (SAC-M) ကပြောသည်။ tinyurl.com/59rfkmz3

ASEAN Announces its Failure with Planned Junta Engagement - Special Advisory Council for Myanmar

စစ်အုပ်စုနှင့် ထိတွေ့ဆက်ဆံမည့်အစီအစဉ်သည် အာဆီယံ၏ကျရှုံးမှုကို ကြေညာလိုက်ခြင်းဖြစ်သည်။ မြန်မာဘာသာဖြင့်ထုတ်ပြန်ကြေညာချက်အား အောက်တွင်ဖတ်ရှုနိုင်ပါသည်။ 11 July 2026: ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ scheduled me...

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@special-council.bsky.social condemns ASEAN's planned meeting with Myanmar's military government's Foreign Minister, calling it a betrayal of its own five-point consensus.

SAC-M ประณามอาเซียนที่จะพบ รมว.กต. รัฐบาลทหารพม่า ชี้ทรยศฉันทามติ 5 ข้อของตนเอง | ประชาไท

SAC-M ประณามอาเซียนที่จะพบ รมว.กต. รัฐบาลทหารพม่า ชี้ทรยศฉันทามติ 5 ข้อของตนเอง

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ASEAN FM's meeting with the #Myanmar junta’s “foreign minister” tomorrow would undermine its own 5PC & reward the junta’s bloodshed & recalcitrance. If it proceeds, #ASEAN is casting a vote of no-confidence in its own ability to handle the situation in 🇲🇲. specialadvisorycouncil.org/2026/07/asea...

'The #Myanmar junta is not a reformed institution wearing a civilian suit. It is a collapsing institution seeking a diplomatic lifeline. This is exactly the wrong moment for #ASEAN to extend a hand. Doing so signals to Min Aung Hlaing that rebranding works.' english.dvb.no/myanmars-jun...

Myanmar's junta is losing: Don't hand it impunity disguised as ‘peace’ - DVB

Guest contributor Khin Ohmar This month, foreign ministers from the 11-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASESAN) are reportedly going to meet with the rebranded junta’s new foreign minist...

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“The UK can take a practical step right now to help prevent further atrocities in #Myanmar by leading a coalition of #ICC member states to refer the full situation in Myanmar to the ICC Prosecutor," said Fortify Rights CEO Matthew Smith. www.fortifyrights.org/mya-inv-2026... #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

U.K.: Lead Coalition to Refer Myanmar to the International Criminal Court, Impose Fresh Sanctions - Fortify Rights

Following testimony in U.K. Parliament, Fortify Rights urges Article 14 referral of the full situation in Myanmar to the ICC Prosecutor

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"Categorically, Min Aung Hlaing is not a president. He is a war criminal with a stolen title," writes Khin Ohmar. "Reuters, Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, DW, & Al Jazeera English should stop calling him one." english.dvb.no/min-aung-hla... #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #Myanmar

Min Aung Hlaing is not Myanmar's 'President' so stop reporting it as fact - DVB

Guest contributor Khin Ohmar Min Aung Hlaing is not a president. Reuters, Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, DW, and Al Jazeera English should stop calling him one. On June 16, Reuters reported t...

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We urge Australia's FM Penny Wong to raise directly with fellow Quad member India's PM Narendra Modi his decision to host alleged war criminal & junta leader Min Aung Hlaing. PM #Modi has recklessly undermined the path to genuine democracy in #Myanmar & caused significant damage to the #Quad.

SAC-M's Ben Lee was honoured to join Kim Aris at a Burmese community event in Sydney & deliver remarks. Kim is demanding the #Myanmar junta produce #ProofofLife for his mother, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who remains in incommunicado arbitrary detention. Full speech: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvGH...

As the #Myanmar junta hosts #ASEAN foreign ministers in Naypyitaw amid its push to normalise ties, its forces killed at least 40 civilians—incl children, women & monks—during a 20-day scorched-earth rampage near the #UNESCO World Heritage Site of Bagan. www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/o...

The NUG & its allies do not ask #India to break relations with Naypyidaw. But the reality is that the actors able to deliver practical results on border security, counter-narcotics, & infrastructure protection increasingly sit within the resistance. #Myanmar indianexpress.com/article/opin...

The junta in Myanmar is not the partner India needs

The actors that can deliver results on border security, counter-narcotics, and infrastructure protection increasingly sit within the resistance

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Myanmar's junta is isolated because it lacks legitimacy among the people, not merely because ASEAN restricts diplomatic access. If #Thailand leads #Asean towards political normalisation, it risks deepening Myanmar's conflict rather than helping resolve it. www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opin...

Thailand's risky Myanmar policy

At the 48th Asean Summit in Cebu on 7-8 May, several member states signalled support for "calibrated engagement" with Myanmar's junta after five years of failed diplomacy.

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"ASEAN is being systematically deceived & manipulated by the junta & choosing, repeatedly, not to notice. If #ASEAN cannot stop the junta’s violence & save our people’s lives, the least it can do now is stop lending it legitimacy & get out of the way." #Myanmar english.dvb.no/drop-the-jun...

Why ASEAN must stop lending legitimacy and drop the junta - DVB

Guest contributor Khin Ohmar Five years ago, Myanmar’s military staged an illegal coup attempt, illegally arresting and imprisoning legitimately elected leaders on bogus charges. Since then, this junt...

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"SCEF represents a groundbreaking alliance unlike any previously seen in Myanmar’s 70-year struggle against military rule. It possesses the structure, intent & potential capability to become a decisive force in shaping the country’s future." www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/gues... #Myanmar

HRW's latest report documents the massacre of some 170 #Rohingya civilians by the Arakan Army in Myanmar's Rakhine State in May 2024. Two years later, survivors are still denied justice & unable to return to their homes. www.hrw.org/report/2026/... #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #Myanmar

“Skeletons and Skulls Scattered Everywhere”

The 56-page report, “‘Skeletons and Skulls Scattered Everywhere’: Arakan Army Massacre of Rohingya Muslims in Hoyyar Siri, Myanmar,” documents the May 2, 2024 attack, in which Arakan Army fighters del...

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"Genocide does not begin with gunfire. It begins with words—with narratives that deny the humanity of others. If #Myanmar is to build a more inclusive future, it must confront these legacies." #Rohingya #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar myanmar-now.org/en/news/word...

Words that dehumanise: The language behind anti-Rohingya hatred in Myanmar

Propaganda and prejudice have long stripped the Rohingya and other minorities of their humanity, making them easy targets of violence

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အာဆီယံဥက္ကဋ္ဌ ဖိလစ်ပိုင်နိုင်ငံသည် စီဘူးထိပ်သီးအစည်းအဝေးတွင် ခိုင်မာသော သဘောထား ရပ်တည်ချက်တစ်ခုကို အခိုင်အမာစွဲကိုင်ကာ စစ်အုပ်စုက ပြည့်စုံလုံလောက်သော လုပ်ဆောင်ချက်များ ချမှတ်ဆောင်ရွက်လာအောင် တောင်းဆိုရမည်။ tinyurl.com/5xsxdatx

Trump ally Roger Stone has registered through DCI Group to lobby for Myanmar’s junta on a $3m per year contract. His mission: get #Washington to mistake a weak, brutal & internationally toxic junta for a reliable partner. 🔗 www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/gues... #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

As always solid work from @karenhrg.bsky.social who have just published Photo evidence & testimony gathered by community member who KHRG had trained in the past to monitor human rights abuses. Junta airstrikes, shelling, the damge & displacement caused in T’Nay Hsah (Nabu) Township, Hpa-an District

Hpa-an District Short Update: Burma Army air strikes and shelling caused damage and displacement in T’Nay Hsah Township (September to December 2025)

Widespread displacement from Dooplaya District On September 2nd 2025, at 6 am, the Burma Army[2] conducted shelling onto Bx--- village and Ag--- village, Noh Hpoh village tract[3], Kaw T’Ree Township,...

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#Malaysia's FM says today #ASEAN is not yet ready to accept the participation of #Myanmar junta leaders in its summits & official meetings. "We remain uneasy as there are still reports of oppression & brutality against [the] people..." #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar www.nst.com.my/news/nation/...

Tok Mat: Asean not ready to accept Myanmar leaders in official meetings | New Straits Times

CEBU: Asean is not yet ready to accept the participation of Myanmar political leaders in its summits and official meetings due to continued concerns over the situation in the country.

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