Accused war criminal Min Aung Hlaing is the subject of at least 1 int'l arrest warrant for serious int'l crimes. SAC-M's Chris Sidoti speaks with CNA about the risk of arrest to the #Myanmar junta leader amid his expanding diplomatic offensive. Full: specialadvisorycouncil.org/2026/08/chri...
Special Advisory Council for Myanmar
@special-council.bsky.social
An independent group of international human rights experts working for peace, genuine democracy, justice and accountability in Myanmar.
ရိုဟင်ဂျာပြည်သူတွေ ဘာကြောင့်ဆက်လက်နှိပ်ကွပ်ခံနေရပြီး ကျူးလွန်သူတွေဟာ အရင်ကရော၊ အခုရော တာဝန်ခံစရာမလိုပဲ ဘာကြောင့် ဆက်ပြီးရှောင်တိမ်းနေလို့ရတာလဲဆိုတာကို ဒီနေ့လိုအချိန်မျိုးမှာ နိုင်ငံတကာအသိုင်းအဝိုင်းက မဖြစ်မနေ ပြန်သုံးသပ်ဖို့လိုပါတယ်။ 🔗 tinyurl.com/n4khtxvu
9 years ago, the #Myanmar military launched an atrocity campaign to erase the #Rohingya from northern Rakhine State. Today, Rohingya continue to be persecuted, while the perpetrators – then & now – evade accountability. The int'l community must act. 🔗 specialadvisorycouncil.org/2026/08/nine...
'The Special Advisory Council for #Myanmar said this week that "by embracing a warlord, #Thailand has torched its credibility". The decision to also allow a visit from Ye Win Oo was "adding to its ignominy", the statement added.' www.france24.com/en/live-news... #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
Thai, Myanmar military chiefs meet as post-coup thaw progresses
Myanmar's military chief met Thursday with Thailand's top general in Bangkok in his first foreign trip since assuming the role, as his coup-staging armed forces shake off their pariah status.
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'SAC-M said that #Thailand’s policy had “shattered any vestige of a common #ASEAN position on #Myanmar” without extracting any concessions of note in return. Thailand's decision to host junta General Ye Win Oo, it added, will only add to the country’s “ignominy".' thediplomat.com/2026/08/myan...
Myanmar Military Chief Begins Visit to Thailand Aimed at Expanding Security Ties
Ye Win Oo’s visit is the latest effort by Bangkok to bring Myanmar’s military-appointed government in from the cold.
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More coverage of our recent statement 👇 "Khun Kasit accused Thai PM Anutin of lacking basic knowledge & clear objectives on #Myanmar while adding that Thai Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow was betraying the collective stance of his #ASEAN counterparts." www.irrawaddy.com/news/myanmar...
DVB's coverage of our joint statement with Khun Kasit Piromya, former Foreign Minister of #Thailand, on Thailand’s short-sighted & self-interested embrace of accused war criminal & #Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing. 🔗 english.dvb.no/thailand-has... #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
The #Thai Gov't's self-interested embrace of #Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing has torched its credibility & further fuelled junta bloodshed & intransigence. Now, it's preparing to host another accused junta war criminal, General Ye Win Oo, today. 👉 specialadvisorycouncil.org/2026/08/by-e...
Junta bombs continue to pummel resistance-held areas of Myanmar's Sagaing Region, even as 200K civilians contend with devastating floods. Every natural disaster is just another opportunity for the junta to punish civilians. myanmar-now.org/en/news/myan... #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #Myanmar
Myanmar regime continues airstrikes amid flooding in Sagaing
The junta’s attacks have complicated efforts to assist many of the more that 200,000 people affected by flooding in the region
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Weekly update on the situation in Karen, Mon & Dawei since the failed coup: August 2026 | Week One ⚠️ 7+ Arrested ⚠️ 5+ Detained ⚠️ 12+ Injured ⚠️ 5+ Killed Indiscriminate violence continues to claim the lives of civilians. A 16-year-old boy was shot & killed in Dawei.
Solidarity✊ 'Thai civil-society organisations have condemned the #Thai gov't’s reception of accused war criminal & junta leader Min Aung Hlaing, accusing it of granting political legitimacy to military rule & disregarding the suffering of #Myanmar’s people.' www.nationthailand.com/news/world/4...
Thai civic groups condemn government over Min Aung Hlaing visit
Thai civil-society groups say welcoming Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing grants legitimacy to military rule and disregards the suffering of Myanmar’s people
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19 Student associations from Chulalongkorn, Kasetart & Thammasat Universities issue objection to the welcome by the Thai government of the leader of the Junta in Myanmar Min Aung Hlaing. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar Thai version & source in QT.
แถลงการณ์ร่วมของสโมสรและองค์กรนิสิตนักศึกษา 3 มหาวิทยาลัย กรณีรัฐบาลไทยให้การต้อนรับ พลเอกอาวุโสมิน อ่อง หล่าย #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar 🔗 www.instagram.com/p/Dbt85eik7Vx
Sec. Lazaro, your chairship'll be judged not by the commitments it repeats or by the generals it meets. It'll be judged by whether it confronts the military’s violence & gets aid to the ppl most in need. Read more kohmar.substack.com/p/philippine... #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar @pvamplify.bsky.social
Philippine Foreign Secretary Ma. Theresa Lazaro: Open your door to Myanmar’s women
Secretary Lazaro,
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'Playing “neighborly bridge” to a war criminal without demanding accountability is not diplomacy—it is complicity. #Thailand cannot allow economic rhetoric to eclipse regional security & human rights. It should not lend legitimacy to the junta in Naypyitaw.' www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/comm...
16 Thai organisations including #MilkTeaAlliance Thailand, Solidarity collective, @thaiforpalestine.bsky.social issue statement opposing the visit of the Min Aung Hlaing to Thailand. "การมอบความชอบธรรมหรือผลประโยชน์ให้รัฐบาลทหารเมียนมา ไม่ได้ทำให้ภูมิภาคสงบสุข" Source: www.facebook.com/story.php?st...
New event! 📆6th Aug 🕐13:00 Thailand Time Join Bright Future, Myanmar Diaspora & allies for protest "Get Out Min Aung Hlaing" to object to the visit of the murderous Junta Leader to Thailand.
"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
myanmar-now.org
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.
theconversation.com
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
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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