💢 Urgent Appeal for Localized Humanitarian Assistance Without Supporting Junta | #MyanmarEarthquake Aid must prioritize gender-sensitive support, ensuring menstrual aid, safe shelters, and medical care for women, especially pregnant women, new mothers, and infants.

According to this video, its confirmed that three intl rescue teams (Singapore, PRC and Thai) were helping out in Nay Pyi Taw. But there was NONE intl rescue team in Sagaing city where epicenter was. Episode of 2008 Cyclon Nargis seem to be repeating. #WhathappeninginMyanmar

The groups say the regime must not be allowed to exploit overseas assistance or deny access to resistance-held areas hit by last Friday’s massive quake Read more: myanmar-now.org/en/news/myanma…

The earthquake has exposed the regime's near-zero capacity to provide emergency aid to victims. Despite this, airstrikes continue daily across the country. Our tracker has recorded 16+ airstrikes in Sagaing, Magway, Bago, Shan, Karen, Rakhine, and Kachin within just four days.

The focus in Myanmar must be on saving lives not taking them. Junta military attacks must stop. Obstructions to aid must be lifted. Young people should not be fearing arrest or conscription. The international community must step up with greater levels of emergency aid. Now.

“I am 100% sure the military won’t deliver aid to resistance areas,” SAC-M’s Yanghee Lee tells CNN. The intl community must therefore ensure aid is directed to the National Unity Government Myanmar, ethnic orgs & #Myanmar civil society to ensure it reaches all #earthquake affected communities.

#Myanmar #ethnic 3 Brotherhood Alliance including powerful #ArakanArmy announces, with immediate effect, 1 month "unilateral humanitarian pause" (like #NUG) in ongoing clashes with #militarycoup army to allow for post-#earthquake rescue operations. At least 2,700 killed in quake

Even before last Friday’s devastating earthquake, Myanmar’s hospitals were under siege. Determined to persecute medical professionals opposed to its rule, the military regime has forcibly closed dozens of healthcare facilities that employed doctors and nurses who refused to be

Sagaing, the epicentre of the earthquake. Destruction is much greater here than Mandalay… local firefighter told us as much as 80% of the city has been damaged.

Breaking News Myanmar junta admits to firing on Chinese Red Cross aid convoy The military claims it fired warning shots at a nine-vehicle convoy carrying aid for earthquake victims, forcing it to retreat myanmar-now.org/en/news/myanma…

Rescue or Rubble: Junta Forces Prioritize Temple Cleanup Over Trapped Civilians As countless civilians remain trapped and bodies to be retrieved under collapsed buildings in Mandalay, Sagaing, Naypyitaw, Shan State, and elsewhere, where are the forces of the regime? Instead of

After heavy losses, SAC realizes armed conflict won’t resolve Myanmar’s crisis—they should never have staged the coup at the first place. Now, feeling defeated, they call for a ceasefire. Personally welcome, but how sincere are they? Let’s wait and see. #MyanmarCrisis #Ceasefire

On the int'l response to #Myanmar's #earthquake catastrophe, SAC-M's Chris Sidoti told the BBC: “The single biggest challenge is dealing with the military."   “We have to get the military out of the way so that humanitarian relief can get in." #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

A letter obtained by Myanmar Now reveals that the Red Cross Society of China gave advance notice of its plans to deliver aid in Myanmar, but had not received junta officials’ clearance before soldiers attacked their relief convoy in northern Shan State. myanmar-now.org/en/news/exclus…

Great, gutsy job by BBC Asia to send a journalist across into #Burma undercover, evading the #Myanmar SAC junta's outrageous & unacceptable restrictions on foreign journalists entering the country. Shocking images from #Mandalay are must see. #MyanmarEarthquake

While #Myanmar deals with aftermath of devastating #earthquake that has killed >3,000 & while rescue missions ongoing to hunt for survivors & help affected, #military chief Min Aung Hlaing is in #Bangkok #Thailand to attend #BIMSTECSummit. National Unity Government Myanmar "condemns" his participation

Great piece from maggi and Maw Baw Meh highlighting the tragedy of the earthquake in Myanmar and the unique vulnerabilities facing women and girls myanmar-now.org/en/news/uncert…

Just when it appeared that the junta was heeding calls to stop military attacks and allow aid to get to those in desperate need, there are reports that these attacks have resumed in Myanmar. I urge the convening of the UN Security Council to address this deepening crisis.

People sleeping out in the open in #Mandalay, curfews at night, bombings by the #Myanmar junta airforce, & SAC spokesperson admitting junta soldiers shot up a relief convoy, junta blocking aid from reaching #Sagaing. Shameful, outrageous & unacceptable failures by despot Min Aung

#Myanmar SAC military junta at work: blocking, and confiscating aid. Outrageous & unacceptable! A member of a rescue team in Sagaing said they faced restrictions and blockades. “When we try to transport supplies from Mandalay, the military council doesn’t permit it. Even