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The regime's chief of the general staff, General Maung Maung Aye, said anyone who tries to avoid conscription faces three years in jail.
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The residents of Nat Taung Maw in Thandwe Township were killed when junta forces attacked without provocation, locals said.
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Thousands of civilians have fled Tonzang town and the number is likely to rise after the regime airlifted reinforcements to the town near the border with India.
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Regime soldiers fleeing toward Thai border accused of killing four civilians including a pregnant woman.
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Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 05/21/2024
Monday, May 20, 2024
Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 05/20/2024
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Min Aung Hlaing and senior junta officials met a senior aerospace executive from Russian state firm to discuss cooperation in aerospace technology and human resources.
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Ethnic army and allies announce seizure of a dozen more junta outposts in Waingmaw Township, bordering the state capital of Myitkyina.
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With fighting intensifying near Thandwe and Ngapali, the junta is moving government staff, equipment and documents out of both towns, residents say.
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Films have always provided Myanmar people with a way "to look at the past through a fancy new lens but also to consider revolutionary new futures", writes Jane Ferguson.
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The towns of Cikha and Tonzang in Chin State's northernmost township were captured after four days of attacks by a joint force of 14 Chin resistance groups, the Chin National Army said.
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Currency crisis deepens as economy battered by military takeover and civil war spirals out of control.
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Iran's Red Crescent said rescue teams were heading towards the site in a mountainous area of the country's northwest after the aircraft went down on Sunday afternoon.
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Human rights chief Volker Turk said he was "deeply alarmed" by the violence in Buthidaung Township and the displacement of Rohingya and other civilians.
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Saturday, May 18, 2024
Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 05/18/2024
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The Arakan Army says it has occupied the whole of Buthidaung Township after the fall of the town's Myanmar junta command headquarters and other major bases.
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The Kachin Independence Army says it has unconfirmed reports that a regime helicopter was shot down as the armed group attacks across Kachin State.
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Also this week, coup-maker Min Aung Hlaing explained his 'election plan' to ASEAN and blessed a dummy Shan icon demolished by previous regime.
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Friday, May 17, 2024
Daily Stories from The Irrawaddy for 05/17/2024
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Young men are being arrested and conscripted at checkpoints in Magwe Region's Aunglan town after many fled or bribed their way out, and local administrators threw a wrench into the recruitment process.
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Fifth round of China-brokered talks focused on resumption of Shan State border trade and the battle for Rakhine, according to sources.
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The Kachin Independence Army's operations chief Lieutenant General Rukhkyawng Hkawng Lum died of natural causes in Laiza this week.
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It said it captured the Nambyu outpost in Tanai Township with the help of resistance allies after six days of fighting.
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In light of EAO and NUG leaders' recent talks in Tokyo, The Irrawaddy revisits a column from 2022 exploring Japan's decades-long ties with Myanmar's military regimes.
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As a senior Indian air force officer attended a bilateral Air Force Dialogue in Naypyitaw this week, the regime's warplanes bombed villages around Myanmar.
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The ethnic army has reportedly deployed around 1,000 migrant workers to fight junta troops on the front line in Shan State.
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National Unity Government minister joins officials from ethnic armed groups to call on Japanese government to put more pressure on the faltering junta.
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Tonzang residents say they cannot leave the town as regime troops and their Zomi Revolutionary Army encircle the town.
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Arakan Army accuses junta of taking deadly vengeance on civilians as it loses grip on westernmost state.
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