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The empty two-story homes, steepled churches and open-air markets give a hint of the community that Demoso once was. After four years of fighting here between Myanmar’s military junta and local ...
News Myanmar » Kayah » Culture: Myanmar airstrike on school in Kayah state kills 4 children
Four children were killed and 15 wounded in a junta airstrike on a school in civil war-hit Myanmar on Feb. 5, according to a rights group. The Daw Saw Ei school in Demoso township in Kayah state was ...
News Myanmar » Kayah » Culture: ‘Still waiting’: Myanmar’s Kayah looks for justice over military killings
Kayah State, Myanmar – On December 28, in his clinic in Myanmar’s eastern Kayah State, Dr Oak wrapped up a routine check on a pregnant woman and removed some non-threatening shrapnel from the leg of a ...
News Myanmar » Kayah » Culture: Pro-government ethnic militias in east Myanmar shift loyalty to join fighters against military rule
BANGKOK (AP) — Units of an ethnic militia in eastern Myanmar that is nominally part of the military have switched sides, allying themselves with the country’s pro-democracy movement, and have carried ...
News Myanmar » Kayah » Culture: In Myanmar’s Kayah, medics treat war wounded in hidden hospitals
Kayah State, Myanmar – When the military seized power in February 2021, Dr Ye was living a life many young people in Myanmar only dream of – working as a doctor in London. Hailing from a ...
News Myanmar » Kayah » Culture: Myanmar junta’s confiscation of food, medicine leaves Kayah state residents at risk
Residents and internally displaced persons in Myanmar’s war-torn Kayah state are facing a humanitarian emergency as junta forces confiscate food and medicine at dozens of security checkpoints along ...
News Myanmar » Kayah » Culture: Civilians trapped amid fighting in Myanmar’s Kayah state
Thousands of civilians, mostly Christians, are trapped inside houses amid intense fighting in Loikaw, the capital of Kayah state on the northern tip of conflict-torn Myanmar, said Church sources.
News Myanmar » Kayah » Culture: Myanmar's military retakes a strategic town 2 years after the resistance captured it
BANGKOK — Myanmar ‘s military has regained control of a strategic town in eastern Kayah state from the opposition’s armed forces after nearly two years, state media reported Wednesday. The recapture ...
News Myanmar » Kayah » Culture: Catholic Cathedral Complex Bombed, Bishop Flees with Refugees in Worsening Myanmar Civil War
The pastoral center of Christ the King Cathedral in Loikaw, Myanmar, was bombed on Nov. 26 and occupied by the Burmese military the next day, according to reporting by Agenzia Fides, the news arm of ...
News Myanmar » Kayah » Culture: Burnt bodies of more than 30 found in Myanmar’s Kayah state, reports say
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News Myanmar » Kayah » Culture: An outspoken bishop is bringing hope to Catholics under attack in Myanmar
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