National Unity Government (NUG)’s Ministry of Human Rights announced today that the ministry has submitted the report on human rights violations by military soldiers in Magway and Sagaing regions since July to the UN Human Rights. The statement said the report contained arbitrary arrests, tortured deaths and massacres that happened between July and September during … Continue reading Freedom Memoirs – Day 231

Things got intense in Khayan Township of Yangon last night. A local sports stadium where junta’s forces were deployed suffered a bomb attack by People’s Defense Forces (PDF) members and immediately led to back-and-forth firings. The bomb blast saw at least five deaths from junta’s side which also responded angrily by shooting two PDF members … Continue reading Freedom Memoirs – Day 230

We reported last night the State Administration Council (SAC) targeted several townships in Sagaing Region with infantry, navy and air forces. In Mae The Kyo village, Chaung-U township, a battle started when local people defense force (PDFs) dynamited a MyTel mobile tower on the night of September 15. On September 16, junta soldiers raided the … Continue reading Freedom Memoirs – Day 229

During the difficult time in Myanmar, people found a rare joy with the news of three Burmese women being selected as Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2021. Ei Thinzar Maung, the incumbent Deputy Minister of Women, Youths and Children Affairs of the National Unity Government, and Esther Ze Naw Bamvo, a leader of the … Continue reading Freedom Memoirs – Day 228

It has been just another day full of junta’s atrocities. Residents of Thanlyin Township of Yangon heard numerous gunfires last night around 9pm. Initial reports came up that junta’s forces were attacked by people in cars that led to an exchange of firing. However, verified news later described that a car carrying two civilians hit … Continue reading Freedom Memoirs – Day 227

This morning, Foreign Policy reported that the United States and China, two big powerhouses, agreed to keep Myanmar’s Permanent Representative U Kyaw Moe Tun in his position until November when the Credential Committee makes a decision, but the deal also refrained U Kyaw Moe Tun from speaking at the UN General Assembly. This did not … Continue reading Freedom Memoirs – Day 226

Tomorrow is a big day for Myanmar as both the State Administrative Council (SAC) and the National Unity Government (NUG) will be competing for their ambassadors' credentials to be accepted at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). Around 358 civil society organizations and rights groups from both Myanmar and international organizations have sent an open … Continue reading Freedom Memoirs – Day 225

Military-owned Mytel telecom towers continued to drop like flies across Myanmar since the National Unity Government (NUG) announced a state of emergency on September 7. Within five days, over 60 telecom towers from four regions were reportedly destroyed by both local People’s Defence Force (PDFs) and unidentified underground groups according to compiled data from DVB … Continue reading Freedom Memoirs – Day 224

Last night in Mandalay, about 20 junta’s soldiers fired multiple gunshots in Maha Aung Myay Township, and arrested three youths by force. A resident from the area said that those victims were abducted without any concrete cause. Similarly, today morning at 5am, junta’s forces raided  Ma U village in Yesagyo, Magway Region, forcing the villagers … Continue reading Freedom Memoirs – Day 223

As we reported yesterday, the grenade attack in Yangon’s Sanchaung township took the lives of two military men, including a major. In the aftermath of such a defeat, the regime’s forces brought terror show they had been carried out in rural areas to the city of Yangon. Khit Thit media reported today that vendors from … Continue reading Freedom Memoirs – Day 222