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Mon Taing Pin Massacre
The Mon Taing Pin massacre was a mass killing of civilians by Burmese military forces on 11 May 2022, in the village of Mondaingbin, Sagaing Region, Myanmar. During the massacre, Myanmar Army troops executed at least 37 villagers. Sagaing Region later became the site of several additional mass killings perpetrated by the Burmese military, including the Letyetkon and Tadaing massacres. Background On 1 February 2021, the Myanmar Armed Forces staged a coup d'état and deposed the democratically elected government led by the National League for Democracy. Shortly thereafter, the military established a junta, the State Administration Council (SAC), and declared a national state of emergency. In response, civilians throughout the country staged large-scale protests to resist the military takeover. By May 2021, the civilian-led resistance had escalated into a civil war against the SAC, which was unwilling to compromise. Mondaingbin (, ; variously spelt Mon Taing Bin, Mone Taing Pin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mondaingbin
Mondaingbin () is a village in Ye-U Township, Sagaing Region, Myanmar and is the primary village in the Mondaingbin village tract. Mondaingbin is a small village of 400 households and 1,900 individuals in Ye-U Township, located northwest of Shwebo. On 12 May 2022, Myanmar Army carried out a massacre A massacre is an event of killing people who are not engaged in hostilities or are defenseless. It is generally used to describe a targeted killing of civilians Glossary of French words and expressions in English#En masse, en masse by an armed ... of male civilians from the village. References Populated places in Sagaing Region {{Sagaing-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Four Cuts
The four cuts strategy is a military doctrine of the Tatmadaw (the military of Myanmar) that consists of violent collective punishment against civilians perceived to have ties to insurgent groups. The strategy has its origins in the 1960s in the internal conflict in Myanmar, when the Tatmadaw was fighting the Communist Party of Burma and Karen National Union in Karen State. It has been deployed many times since, including in the conflict in Rakhine State. The name refers to "cutting" off four types of supplies to insurgents: food, funds, information and recruitment. See also * Briggs Plan * List of massacres in Myanmar * War crimes during the Myanmar civil war (2021–present) The military of Myanmar (Tatmadaw), its allies, and anti-junta factions have committed numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), 2021–present Myanmar civil war. According to a reports, from F ... * Mo So massacre References {{Myanmar-stub Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zaw Min Tun (general)
Zaw Min Tun (; ; born Myanmar) is a Burmese army general and the current Deputy Minister of Information (Myanmar), Deputy Minister of Information in Myanmar. He holds key leadership roles within the military and government, most notably serving as the chief of the Tatmadaw True News Information Team and heading the Head of the Press Team of the State Administration Council, press team of the State Administration Council (SAC), which governs Myanmar following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, military coup in February 2021. Zaw Min Tun has been recognized as a senior spokesperson for the Myanmar Army, particularly following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, military coup, which led to widespread Myanmar civil war (2021–present), political unrest and Myanmar protests (2021–present), public protests. His role has been significant in the communication strategies employed by the military during this period, ensuring the conveyance of the regime's narratives to both domestic and internati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Unity Government Of Myanmar
The National Unity Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar (; abbreviated NUG) is a provisional government for Myanmar formed by the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH), a group of elected lawmakers and Member of parliament, members of parliament ousted in the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état. It includes representatives of the National League for Democracy (the party of former State Counsellor of Myanmar, state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi), List of insurgent groups in Myanmar, ethnic minority insurgent groups, and various List of political parties in Myanmar, minor parties. The State Administration Council (SAC) military junta has declared the NUG illegal and a terrorist organization, while the NUG designated the Tatmadaw and its affiliated organizations as terrorist organizations under Section 3 of Myanmar's Counter-Terrorism Law. In May 2021, the NUG announced the formation of a People's Defense Force of Myanmar, People's Defense Force, and in Septembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myinmu Township
Myinmu Township is a Townships of Burma, township in the southeast of the Sagaing Division in Burma, Burma (Myanmar), west of Mandalay. The principal town is Myinmu which lies on the northern bank of the Irrawaddy River. History of Myinmu is closely linked to the World War II against the Imperial Japanese Army, Japanese Army when United Kingdom, British General Sir Douglas Gracey occupied the town after crossing the Irrawaddy River. The nearest settlement to the town of Myinmu is Paledan, a river village to the east. Other settlements of note in the township are Allagappa to the west, Tizaung to the northeast and Ngaizun several miles away on the opposite side of the river from the main town. Apart from the Irrawaddy River, the Mu River also flows about away from the town. The nearest airport to the town is the Mandalay International Airport (MDL), which is away. Geography Myinmu Township has an area of about . It has about 35 village tracts. Mu River in the north-central Myanm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Solidarity And Development Party
The Union Solidarity and Development Party (; abbr. USDP) is an ultranationalist, pro-military political party in Myanmar. Alongside the National League for Democracy, it is one of Myanmar's two principal national parties. USDP is the successor to the former ruling military junta's mass organisation, the Union Solidarity and Development Association, and serves as the electoral proxy of the Tatmadaw (military), which operates as a state within a state. Many of its political candidates and leadership are retired generals. It supports authoritarian military leadership. USDP was founded by Prime Minister Thein Sein to contest the 2010 Myanmar general election; the party was headed by Sein until 2013. Since 2022, it has been led by Khin Yi, who was installed as a loyalist of military leader Min Aung Hlaing. History Establishment The USDP was formed on 29 April 2010 by Thein Sein and senior military officers who had retired from the armed forces, in the lead-up to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's Defence Force (Myanmar)
The People's Defence Force is the armed wing of the National Unity Government (NUG) in Myanmar. The armed wing was formed by the NUG from youths and pro-democracy activists on 5 May 2021 in response to the coup d'état that occurred on 1 February 2021 that put the military junta and their armed wing the Tatmadaw in power. The military junta designated it as a terrorist organisation on 8 May 2021. In October 2021, NUG's Ministry of Defence announced that it had formed a central committee to coordinate military operations across the country. According to the NUG statement, the PDF is divided into five regional commands (Northern, Southern, Central, Eastern and Western commands), each mounting at least three brigades. Each brigade consists of five battalions, which divide into four companies. On 13 July 2021, NUG's minister of defence Yee Mon stated that the strength of the newly-formed militia was expected to reach 8,000 by the end of the month. Estimates by ''The Irrawaddy'' p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyusawhti Militia
Pyusawhti militias ( , also spelt Pyu Saw Htee) refers to three distinct groups of pro-military militias in Myanmar. The term was first used in 1955, when U Nu's government created Pyusawhti paramilitary units to assist the military with counterinsurgency operations. After a coup in 1958, the army tried to disband them as they had become loyal to local ruling-party politicians. However, their attempt was not completely successful. In the 2000s, Burmese media began using the term to refer to poorly trained irregulars mobilized by the military. In 2021, new village-based, loosely organised militia groups collectively known as the Pyusawhti emerged. These militias, officially called People's militias, were formed by supporters of the military of Myanmar and those suspected to be its supporters, who feared attacks by the resistance forces, most of which later turned into the People's Defence Forces. They conduct attacks on the resistance forces and their perceived supporters. They ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Min Aung Hlaing
Min Aung Hlaing (born 3 July 1956) is a Burmese army general who has ruled Myanmar as the chairman of the State Administration Council, chairman of the State Administration Council (SAC) since seizing power in the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, February 2021 coup d'état. He additionally appointed himself Prime Minister of Myanmar in August 2021, and assumed President of Myanmar, presidential duties in July 2024. He has led the Tatmadaw (armed forces of Myanmar), an independent branch of government, as the Commander-in-chief of Defence Services since March 2011, when he was handpicked to succeed longtime military ruler Senior general (Myanmar), Senior General Than Shwe, who transferred leadership over the country to a civilian government upon retiring. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taikkyi Township
Taikkyi Township ( ) is the northernmost township of Yangon Region and the only township of Taikkyi District (). The township was split off from North Yangon District on 30 April 2022 to form its own district. The township has 3 towns- the principal town of Taikkyi as well as Oakkan and Aphauk which altogether have 20 urban wards. The rural portion of the township has 476 villages grouped into 75 village tracts. Taikkyi grew due to its location on the Yangon-Pyay railway. Outside of the town of Taikkyi, the township has the Gyobyu Reservoir (capacity of 27 million gallons), which is one of major reservoices providing the water supply the city of Yangon Yangon, formerly romanized as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar. Yangon was the List of capitals of Myanmar, capital of Myanmar until 2005 and served as such until 2006, when the State Peace and Dev .... Near the reservoir is the natural Phugyi Lake (capacity of 54 million gall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mu River
Mu River (; ) is a river in upper central Myanmar (Burma), and a tributary of the country's chief river, the Irrawaddy. It drains the Kabaw valley and part of the Dry Zone between the Ayeyarwady to the east and its largest tributary the Chindwin River to the west. It flows directly north to south for about and enters the Ayeyarwady west of Sagaing near Myinmu. Its catchment area above the Kabo weir is . River flow and rainfall are both seasonal and erratic, at its lowest from January to April, rising sharply during May and June, and high from August to October. Because the Mu lies within the Dry Zone in the rain shadow of the Arakan Mountains, it receives scanty summer monsoon rainfall with a total streamflow of . An old popular expression in Burmese goes thus: ''Ma myinbu, Mu myit htin'' () - If you haven't seen a river before, you'd think the Mu is it. It may also be called ''Mu Chaung'' (creek) rather than ''Mu Myit'' (river) by some. The wooded upper Mu valley is popula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyaung
A ''kyaung'' (, ) is a monastery ( vihara), comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of Buddhist monks. Burmese ''kyaungs'' are sometimes also occupied by novice monks (samanera), lay attendants ('' kappiya''), nuns (''thilashin''), and white-robed acolytes ( ''phothudaw''). The ''kyaung'' has traditionally been the center of village life in Burma, serving as both the educational institution for children and a community center, especially for merit-making activities such as construction of buildings, offering of food to monks and celebration of Buddhist festivals, and observance of uposatha. Monasteries are not established by members of the sangha, but by laypersons who donate land or money to support the establishment. ''Kyaungs'' are typically built of wood, meaning that few historical monasteries built before the 1800s are extant. Kyaungs exist in Myanmar (Burma), as well as in neighboring countries with Theravada Buddhist communities, including neighboring China (e.g. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
