A press conference on the "Basic Law on Federal Transition Measures (AFTA) Zero Draft" was held yesterday (July 5). At the press conference, Mizzima interviewed Dr. Lian Hmung Sakhong, the Union Minister for Federal Affairs of the National Unity Government (NUG), about the influence of the Steering Committee for Federal Democracy (SCEF) on the AFTA draft and the devolution of state powers. What is the extent of the newly formed Steering Committee for Federal Democracy (SCEF)'s authority and its political influence on the AFTA draft? Furthermore, based on the bottom-up federalism approach, what practical political guarantees are included for devolving the three pillars separately in each state and for resource allocation?
Photo – Nine statues of General Aung San, considered the father of Myanmar's independence, were destroyed or removed by the military junta during a two-year period from 2024 to 2026, according to Mizzima's compilation. (
China has reportedly stepped up arrests and deportations of undocumented Myanmar workers in the border region. The crackdown has reportedly left thousands of deportees and would-be migrants stranded in the Myanmar border
At least eight Rohingya, including some children, were killed and several others injured early on Monday after heavy monsoon rains triggered multiple landslides at refugee camps in southeastern Bangladesh, officials sa
Yangon July 6 Than Tapin Township, Yangon Region 5-year-old Ma Thawta Sai was removed from her earring in Tu Chuang Village. The accused who raped and killed 33-year-old police officer Win Pai, Bagu Division. A police so
Police are investigating heroin that a Thai Airways air hostess carried to Australia, believing that the drugs were produced in Myanmar and smuggled into northern Thailand via Laos. Police said on Sunday that the heroin
The high-level Myanmar delegation led by President U Min Aung Hlaing and wife Daw Kyu Kyu Hla, travelled from Vientiane to Luang Prabang on Sunday as part of their State Visit to the Lao People's Democratic Republic. The
A tornado struck Kadar Ward in Paung Township, Mon State, around 7:30 PM yesterday, July 5, damaging over 70 houses, as well as monasteries, schools, and government buildings, according to local residents. A resident of
Lhwin Moe (July 6) Mizzima. || Around 10,000 residents from Kanay Township in Sagaing Region are fleeing their homes due to the threat of artillery fire from a military flotilla sailing up the Chindwin River, according t
Survivors and grieving families in Mandalay Region’s Aungmyaythazan Township are expressing deep dissatisfaction after a regime-controlled court handed down a controversial five-year prison sentence to the developer of a
The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) reports that more than 1,000 innocent children have been killed as a result of the Myanmar military junta’s violence since the 2021 military coup. In a report rel
Burma junta leader Min Aung Hlaing is responsible for a pattern of removal of statues and images of General Aung San around Burma, effectively shaming the founder of Burma’s armed forces and the architect of Burmese independence. Aung San will be rolling in his grave. Images of the general are slyly being removed by a military coup-maker who has further ruined the image of the military in the eyes of the Burmese public. Aung San would be shocked by the actions of the bloodthirsty coup-maker, who since 2021 has been at war with his own people. The latest action happened in the dead of night in Yangon. Myanmar junta forces destroyed two bronze statues of General Aung San in Yangon’s South Okkalapa and Thaketa townships on the night of 1 July, according to local residents. Earlier, military forces removed a portrait of General Aung San from the front gate of imprisoned State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi’s residence at No. 54 University Avenue Road, Yangon, under the pretext of conducting a guest-list inspection, according to Mizzima sources. These removals are part of a broader pattern. Min Aung Hlaing’s military junta has been systematically demolishing and removing bronze statues of General Aung San across the country. On the night of 9 June, a 15-foot bronze statue of General Aung San weighing approximately 740 kilogrammes, located on Kan Road in Taungoo, Bago Region, was demolished and removed during a city-wide blackout. Myanmar’s junta leader Min Aung Hlaing and newly appointed Chief of General Staff Ye Win Oo had visited Taungoo on 6 June, three days before the demolition. Since the February 2021 coup, the junta has carried out at least seven documented removals of General Aung San’s bronze statues, all conducted during midnight blackouts over the last two years – in Thazi, Mandalay Region, in Pobbathiri, Naypyidaw, in Bago, in Pathein, Ayeyarwady Region, Yangon, and most recently in Taungoo. What is it about the stature of Min Aung Hlaing that prompts him to erase the memory of Burma’s founder and general who helped create the Tatmadaw or Burmese military forces? Instead of leveraging the standing of the “Father of the Nation”, Burma’s new “president” in civilian garb appears to be keen to erase him from memory. Any steadfast and confident leader would not be giving the order to remove these statues and images in the middle of the night. No doubt the ego of the Burmese leader was pumped up during his recent state visits to India and China as he seeks to cement his role under a quasi-civilian administration shoehorned into place following “sham” elections that sought to change the regime from green to white – a regime that continues to maim and kill its own citizens. Clearly, Min Aung Hlaing fears standing in the shadow of the man who founded his country, the man who is the father of the “people’s choice”, Aung San Suu Kyi – a woman now locked away with no “proof of life”. Maybe this is why he has ordered his men to take a sledgehammer to statues of Bogyoke Aung San, a man brutally taken down in a hail of bullets on the 19 July 1947 in the Secretariat Building in Rangoon. As the days, weeks and months tick by under Min Aung Hlaing’s new regime, it is becoming increasingly clear that the emperor has no clothes. The leaders of India, China and Russia will not tell him, as they have too much to gain from interacting with this charlatan, not fit to be associated with the “Father of the Nation”. The post Min Aung Hlaing shames Burma independence founder Aung San appeared first on ENG.MIZZIMA.COM.
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Scott Leckie, an international human rights lawyer, argues that control over land in Myanmar functions as a central mechanism through which power is exercised and inequality is sustained, and that any meaningful democrat
International human rights lawyer Scott Leckie said that land control in Myanmar is a key mechanism perpetuating abuse of power and inequality, and that for a meaningful democratic transition, actionable rights and accou
It is reported that Union Minister U Tin Aung San, who is also the spokesperson for the State Administration Council, visited Iran at the invitation of the Iranian government to attend the funeral ceremony of the Supreme
Thousands of residents and resistance fighters in Myanmar are facing sudden communication blackouts after Starlink deactivated terminals across the country. The move, aimed at crippling illicit cyber scam operations, has
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A minor earthquake struck near Mawlamyinekyun and Bogale townships in Ayeyawady Region early on 5 July, causing brief panic among local residents. According to the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology, the earthquake
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A ceremony to disburse revolving funds under the Village Revolving Fund Project (VRFP) in Uyintaw Village, Thongwa Township, on 4 July. The programme is intended to provide much-needed capital for smallholder farmers, ag
A basic and advanced sewing operator training course to promote small-scale production and increase rural household incomes opened on 4 July at a Dhamma hall in Kanyay Village, Minbu (Saku) Township, Magway Region. At th
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DEPUTY Minister for Construction U Myo Myint and members of the reha- bilitation and reconstruc- tion committee inspected the Falam Township mu- nicipal market and Sur- bung Airport in Chin State on 3 July. At the market
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ACCORDING to the Minis-try of Commerce, the neces-sary procedures are being carried out in coordination with the project developer in accordance with the 2014 Myanmar Special Economic Zone Law, as efforts con-tinue to re
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