If the international community truly supports the interests of the Myanmar people, it should pressure the military junta, not the revolutionary forces, NUG Defense Minister U Yee Mon tells The Irrawaddy in exclusive interview.  #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar bit.ly/4geHcsf

As ties between the Myanmar junta and China deepen, Home Affairs Minister Lieut-Gen Yar Pyae left for China's Jiangsu on Sunday to attend the three-day Global Public Security Cooperation Forum. The regime only sent a deputy minister to previous forums. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

Junta troops are using 800 people as human shields and denying them access to medical care and food after they became trapped in a monastery amid fighting in Saigang’s Indaw town. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar bit.ly/3AX1tSU

East West Center, the US-based education and research organization, has honored Dr. Mie Mei Winn Byrd for her contributions to the democracy struggle in Myanmar at a Town Hall Meeting in Hawaii's Honolulu on Sunday evening. Photo: Thin Thiri #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

Making Sense of the Mess in Myanmar’s Shan State. For all their success against the junta, the ethnic armies of northern Shan and Rakhine are not part of a broader united front fighting for a common, nationwide goal. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar bit.ly/3Tn7i2e

A Myanmar regime airstrike targeted Lashio, the capital of northern Shan State, on Monday morning, reportedly injuring 12 civilians. (Photo: MNDAA) #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

China has been courting Yar Pyae to ensure the safety of its investments in Myanmar and root out scam operations targeting Chinese citizens. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar bit.ly/4ef048K

As the junta steps up fatal air raids on civilians, Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, met junta boss Min Aung Hlaing in Naypyitaw on Monday to discuss provision of humanitarian aid in Myanmar. (Photo: MOI) #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

A junta multi-ministry delegation led by Transport Minister Gen. Mya Tun Oo attended the 9th Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia on Sept. 3-6, signing an MoU on the construction of a foliar spray fertilizer plant in Myanmar. (Photo: MWD) #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

Civilian casualties have been reported as Kachin resistance fighters encircled junta forces raiding a hotel in Hpakant’s Seng Taung ward. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar bit.ly/3XF7n2X

A junta airstrike killed 17 people where prisoners of war were receiving treatment at Shin Ywa village in Pauktaw Township, Rakhine State, on Sunday night, the Arakan Army said. (Photo: A Kyauktaw hospital after an airstrike in May. / AA) #whatshappeninginmyanmar

Thai ambassador to Myanmar Mongkol Visitstump met the junta’s Karen State chief minister, Saw Myint Oo, on Monday in Hpa-an, Karen State, according to junta media. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

Arakan Army chief Major General Tun Myat Naing in the second part of his exclusive interview with The Irrawaddy denies claims of violence against the Rohingya. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar bit.ly/4e22CXZ

Heavy rain has flooded communities across Kalaw Township in Southern Shan State, with some residents trapped and awaiting rescue. #WhatsHappenignInMyanmar

The Arakan Army is marching to victory in its ethnic heartland of Rakhine, but lying in its path over the border are the regime’s ordnance factories. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar bit.ly/4cUIQwg

Crumbling junta takes revenge on the innocent. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar ------------------- Help The Irrawaddy Report the Truth from Myanmar bit.ly/3btQYpR

More and more internally displaced people escape the fighting to Yangon, where they face precarious livelihoods, extortion from corrupt junta officials and price-gouging from letting agents. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar bit.ly/3XepjB4

Military training for the fifth batch of draftees recruited under the newly activated conscription law began at seven regional commands of the Myanmar military on Monday as the regime struggles to shore up its seriously depleted army. bit.ly/4ejgdtA

Myanmar Junta Airstrikes Kill Regime Detainees: Arakan Army #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #WarAgainstTheJuntaMyanmar ------------------- Help The Irrawaddy Report the Truth from Myanmar bit.ly/3btQYpR bit.ly/3TmYKbG