Bi-weekly Update on the Current Situation in Myanmar (01-06-2026 to 15-06-2026)

Bi-weekly Update on the Current Situation in Myanmar

(01-06-2026 to 15-06-2026)

Over (64) months ago, on 1 February 2021, the military junta attempted an illegal coup, toppled the elected civilian government, and unlawfully detained State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, President U Win Myint, and other senior members of the civilian government, parliamentarians and activists. Since then, the military junta has ignored the will of the people of Myanmar, placed the country in turmoil, and made people suffer tremendously as a result of its inhumane and disproportionate acts.

Over 3.7 million people are being displaced. Over 16.2 million people are in immediate need of humanitarian assistance. Among them, over 10 million are women and girls, and over 5 million are children. 116,897 houses were burned down throughout Myanmar since the illegal coup until the end of 31 May 2025, according to Data for Myanmar.

According to the UNDP, 49.7 per cent of the population in Myanmar was living under the national poverty line in 2023. Its report in June 2025 further revealed that even in Myanmar's commercial hub, Yangon, nearly half of the city's population lives in poverty, and the economic collapse, displacement, and inadequate services are pushing more families into poverty every day. Moreover, due to the complete dismantling of the rule of law by the junta, transnational organised crimes including online scams, drug trafficking, and human trafficking are rising across the country and generating serious security implications for the region and beyond.

The suffering of the people has been further compounded by the 7.7 magnitude earthquake which struck Myanmar on 28 March 2025. Sagaing Region, Mandalay Region, and Nay Pyi Taw were among the hardest hit. The earthquake killed almost 4,200 people, injured over 3,680 others, and affected over 3.2 million people. Infrastructure, houses, and religious facilities were severely destroyed.

According to the data collected by AAPP, from 1 to 15 June, 2026, (17) people in total; (6) women and (11) men, were killed by the junta across the country, including (3) children under the age of 18. The identities of these victims have been verified. Among them, (12) people were killed by the junta’s airstrikes, marking the highest cause of death. During the stated period, the AAPP has also received information regarding the deaths of (48) civilians, as a result of junta attacks, whose identities have yet to be confirmed.

War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity and Mass Murders Committed by the Military Junta

Junta forces kill 28 civilians in airstrike on monastery and ground assault in Bago Region

Mizzima reported that junta forces killed 28 civilians, including women and children, in an airstrike on a Buddhist monastery and a ground assault in the Yae Twin Kone village tract of Bago Region on 5 March 2026, according to a new investigation released by Fortify Rights on 9 June.

Fortify Rights stated that junta columns from Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) 20, Infantry Battalion (IB) 264 and LIB 439, operating under Light Infantry Division (LID) 77, entered the village tract in the early morning, opened fire on residents, bombed the monastery where civilians had sought shelter and deployed at least one drone attack.

The rights group stated that its findings were based on in-person interviews with 13 people conducted in Bago Region in March and April, including survivors, witnesses, resistance fighters and medical workers. The National Unity Government provided casualty records naming 26 people killed in the airstrike and two others killed in the village tract, although Fortify Rights stated that it could not independently verify all of the names.

One survivor, aged 43, told Fortify Rights that junta soldiers detained him alongside dozens of villagers and accused them of being members of the People's Defence Force (PDF). He said that he later heard a soldier report over the radio that they had shot one kid, and that he realised the soldier was referring to his 14-year-old son, who was killed as he tried to flee. He said that he found the bodies of his wife and son after the soldiers released him, and that he had overheard orders relayed by walkie-talkie to strike the monastery.

Another resident of Kyaung Kone village, who entered the monastery after the airstrike to help the wounded, said the building was destroyed, with its roof gone and its first floor collapsed. He described finding the body of a pregnant woman among the dead. Survivors said that junta forces allowed them to bury 26 people killed in the airstrike and two people killed in the shootings in two mass graves on 6 March.

Fortify Rights stated that the detention of civilians and the bombing of the monastery may amount to war crimes. Fortify Rights Director John Quinley said that the monastery was not a justified military target, and that the attack reflected the junta's strategy of terrorising civilians in areas seen as supporting the resistance.

The group stated that Bago Region, located between Yangon and the junta capital of Naypyitaw, has become a strategically significant battleground, with resistance forces establishing strongholds in parts of the region. Fortify Rights called on UN member states to increase support for international accountability and to provide political, economic and material support to Myanmar's democratic movement, including the NUG. The bombing of a place of worship sheltering displaced civilians, together with the arbitrary detention and killing of residents, constitutes a grave violation of international humanitarian law and international human rights law.

More than 19,100 displaced in urgent need of food aid after junta killings and arson in Myitche, Magway Region

Local media reported that more than 19,100 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Myitche region of Magway Region urgently require emergency food aid after junta forces killed nearly 40 residents and burned approximately 1,000 houses.

The crisis began on 10 May when an estimated 500-strong column comprising junta troops from the Pakokku-based Light Infantry Division (LID) 101 and Pyu Saw Htee militia members from Aung Tha Village raided Myitche Town, triggering mass displacement across the region. With the displacement entering its fourth week, emergency food supplies have reached a critical breaking point.

A local aid volunteer said that there are 12 displacement sites, and that they consume 40 bags of rice and 36 viss, approximately 58.6 kg, of cooking oil daily, alongside other cooking ingredients. He emphasised that basic food supplies are urgently needed, underlining the immense logistical challenge of feeding the displaced population.

Residents from 37 villages were forced to flee to safety as junta forces executed civilians and systematically torched the Myitche central market, urban wards and adjacent villages. Due to severe overcrowding and a critical lack of clean drinking water across the 12 camps, outbreaks of diarrhoea have been reported, prompting an urgent need for immediate medical assistance alongside food relief.

The human toll of the multi-week operation has been devastating. From 10 May to 5 June, junta forces killed nearly 40 civilians, discarding their bodies on public streets, inside residential homes and within religious compounds. Another aid worker reported on the evening of 8 June that the death toll is currently around 40, and that his team, in cooperation with community volunteer groups, has been recovering the bodies. He added that they are still compiling the names of the victims.

During their deployment in Myitche, junta forces systematically targeted economic and residential infrastructure, destroying approximately 1,000 homes across 18 villages. Because the exact current location of the junta column remains difficult to verify and deep fears of a return raid persist, local residents are unable to return to their villages and continue to take refuge in the temporary displacement camps. The extrajudicial killing of civilians, the deliberate destruction of homes and civilian property, and the resulting mass displacement constitute grave violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law.

Junta airstrikes kill Baptist pastor in Deemaw Soe Township, Karenni State

Burma Research Institute (BRI) reported that junta forces carried out airstrikes on villages in Deemaw Soe Township, Karenni (Kayah) State, at around 6:00 pm Myanmar time on 4 June 2026.  The attack on Htee Hla Thoo Village killed Hsar Eh Klu, a Baptist pastor and youth leader, and left civilians injured and homes destroyed. Khit Thit Media reported the attack on 5 June 2026. The Kayah Baptist Association (KBA) Youth Department issued a formal statement of deep sorrow and extended its condolences to the family and loved ones of Pastor Hsar Eh Klu.

The BRI confirmed the incident through a source on the ground. Airstrikes targeting civilians, including Christians, have escalated since junta leader Min Aung Hlaing appointed himself President in April 2026.

BRI President and CEO Zo Tum Hmung said that Myanmar has been designated a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) under the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 every year since 1999, and that after many consecutive years of CPC status no meaningful action has been taken against the junta. He urged the Trump Administration to act now to protect persecuted Christians in Myanmar.

In January 2026, BRI released a report titled Myanmar: Severe Violations of Religious Freedom Against Christians, documenting atrocities against Christian communities across the country, including in Karenni State. BRI has called on the Trump Administration of the United States to act on its mandate under the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to protect persecuted Christians in Myanmar. The deliberate aerial targeting of a civilian village and the killing of a religious leader constitute grave violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law.

Human Rights Abuses

Junta strips National League for Democracy headquarters in Yangon ahead of State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's 81st birthday

Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) reported that in a targeted, late-night operation, junta forces completely stripped the historic Yangon headquarters of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party, removing its primary signboard and flagpole from the building. The dismantling of the party's remaining physical presence on Shwegondaing Road occurred one week before jailed State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi turns 81 on 19 June, amidst an escalating global campaign demanding proof of life from the junta in Nay Pyi Taw.

According to local residents in Yangon's Bahan Township, heavily armed junta soldiers arrived under the cover of darkness to systematically erase the visual markers of the political party that has spearheaded Myanmar's democracy movement for nearly four decades. A Bahan resident told that soldiers arrived late at night to take down the signboard and flagpole bearing the party's signature fighting peacock from the building that housed its operations from 1988 to 2021. The NLD central committee was unavailable for comment, as virtually all remaining high-ranking party members have been driven entirely underground or into exile abroad to evade arrest. Pro-junta media inside Myanmar has not reported on the forced closure of the site.

The removal of the signboard coincides with immense international scrutiny over the status of Myanmar's top elected officials. Min Aung Hlaing ousted the NLD administration and jailed President U Win Myint and State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on what legal analysts describe as fabricated, politically motivated charges. Until now Daw Aung San Suu Kyi remains heavily guarded and isolated from the outside world. Despite receiving two recent sentence reductions and a reported transfer to house arrest, she still faces 18 years in confinement. The junta has kept the Nobel Peace Prize laureate completely incommunicado for over five years, permitting her to send only a single letter to her son, Kim Aris, in 2024.

The systematic stripping of the party's Yangon headquarters puts a definitive punctuation mark on the junta's ongoing effort to erase the legacy of the NLD from Myanmar's physical landscape, while a renewed effort to obtain independent verification that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is alive gains momentum ahead of her 81st birthday and sixth year of imprisonment. The arbitrary detention of elected representatives, the confiscation of private property and the incommunicado detention of political prisoners constitute grave violations of international human rights law.

American consultant detained in Myanmar over business dispute

Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported that an American consultant and author of a memoir on Myanmar's 2021 coup is being detained in the country.

Security consultancy founder Adam Castillo recently printed a book detailing his work in the business community through the coup, which saw much of the foreign community quit the country. Castillo, a former president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Myanmar, posted on his LinkedIn profile this week saying that he was concluding an international promotional book tour in Malaysia.

The 2021 coup deposed and detained elected leader State Cousellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, sparked an uprising of pro-democracy protests and tipped the country into civil war. Since then some countries have treated Myanmar's leaders as pariahs, enforcing wide-ranging trade controls.

AFP reported that junta-run sham elections concluding this year were tightly controlled, excluding Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's party and returning a walkover win for pro-junta parliamentarians. Junta leader Min Aung Hlaing appointed himself as civilian president, in a transition which many democracy organizations dismissed as a civilian rebranding of military rule. Detention and prosecution under a judicial system that lacks independence raise serious concerns under the fair trial guarantees of international human rights law.

Junta falsifies identity card to conscript 47-year-old trishaw driver in Yangon

Mizzima reported that junta forces in Tamwe Township, Yangon, abducted a 47-year-old trishaw driver and, with the Ministry of Immigration and Population, altered his age to 35 on a newly issued National Registration Card (NRC) to meet military service requirements before transferring him to a training camp.

The victim is U Myint Saing, a native of Naga Village in Yenangyaung Township, Magway Region. He vanished on 16 March while operating his trishaw, and his family had no contact with him for nearly two months. Contact was re-established between 10 May and 20 May, revealing that he is detained at the No. 3 Basic Military Training School, Branch 1, in Yamethin Township, Mandalay Region, assigned to Military Training Batch 25.

His wife, Daw Khin Soe Yee, accompanied by a Buddhist monk named Joti, travelled to the facility on 31 May. She said the junta had confiscated and destroyed her husband's original NRC and issued a falsified card with an altered birth date and a new identification number downgrading his age to 35. Despite appeals from local Buddhist monks and village administrators, the training school refused to release him. U Myint Saing is the family's primary breadwinner, leaving behind his wife, who is in poor health, and their three children.

Similar abductions are escalating across Yangon. On 11 May, two internally displaced youths, Pyae Phyo Wai and Ko Ko Naing, vanished while working as bricklayers near Danyingone Market in Hlaing Tharyar Township. In Mandalay in May, a minor under 18 was abducted on the street, and video evidence indicates he was sold into military service after a fake identification card was fabricated to certify falsely that he had reached the legal age. His parents rescued him in time, but most victims lose all contact with their families.

Junta forces and police are conducting guest list inspections and targeted arrests of youths across Yangon townships, following the activation of the People's Military Service Law on 10 February 2024. Defecting soldiers reported that the junta is seizing youths and manual labourers for forced training with the intention of deploying them as human shields on the front lines. The junta has launched up to 24 batches of its forced conscription programme, forcing an average of 4,800 recruits into service each month. According to the Myanmar Defense and Security Institute (MDSI), Batch 22 concluded at the end of April, bringing the total trained to over 100,000, and as of 11 May the junta operates 28 active training centres. The abduction of civilians, falsification of identity documents, conscription of a minor and intended use of recruits as human shields constitute grave violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law.

Actions of Resistance Forces against the Junta

Kim Aris launches 81 for 81 challenge demanding proof of life for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

DVB reported that Kim Aris, son of detained State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, has launched a global fitness and solidarity campaign known as the 81 for 81 challenge, as part of the growing international demand for proof of life confirming that the Nobel Peace Prize laureate is still alive.

The initiative calls on participants worldwide to walk, cycle, run or otherwise move in honour of his mother's forthcoming 81st birthday on 19 June. The campaign runs until 19 June as a core component of the broader Global Proof of Life challenge, with Aris inviting supporters to set their own physical goals in solidarity, suggesting targets such as running 81 kilometres, cycling 81 miles or taking 8,100 steps. Aris has pledged to skateboard 81 kilometres within a single day to lead the effort.

The campaign underscores continuing anxieties over the health and whereabouts of the deposed democracy leader. Aris, who has not been permitted to speak to his mother since she was detained during the illegal military coup on 1 February 2021, expressed deep scepticism about recent claims made by the junta. In a video message posted on social media, he said the junta claims to have moved her from one undisclosed location to another, but that this is not freedom, adding that more than five years after the coup the world still has no independently verified proof that she is even alive.

Aris first escalated his advocacy by launching a proof of life campaign following the junta's Myanmar New Year amnesty on 17 April 2026, repeatedly demanding that the junta provide verifiable evidence of his mother's wellbeing.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi remains in custody and is currently serving an 18-year sentence, reached after several incremental sentence reductions following her 2022 convictions by a closed military court on a range of charges including corruption and breaching the state secrets law. Despite junta assertions that her detention conditions have been altered, international observers and family members note that she remains entirely cut off from the outside world. Her continued incommunicado detention and the denial of any independent verification of her wellbeing constitute violations of international human rights law.

ROSE Movement to launch on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's 81st birthday

Mizzima reported that the People Movement Platform Myanmar announced in a statement issued on 12 June 2026 the official launch of the ROSE Movement: Roses of Hope, a collective campaign opposing the junta's sham political processes and demanding the immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners. The campaign, engaging citizens inside Myanmar and across the diaspora, will be mobilised on 19 June 2026, marking the 81st birthday of State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

Described as the first synchronised nationwide mass movement of 2026, the campaign will use diverse forms of resistance across online and offline platforms, spanning liberated areas as well as territories currently under junta control, and will be integrated with the ongoing Proof of Life campaign. Under the slogan Fight On Alongside Mother Suu, citizens are encouraged to participate on 19 June according to their locations and security conditions by offering roses or other locally available flowers at shrines, wearing them or distributing them within communities, posting photographs of solidarity actions on social media, and displaying and carrying roses during ground-level protests.

The movement asserts three demands: the immediate and unconditional release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and all political prisoners, the immediate abolition of the forced military conscription law, and reaffirmation that U Win Myint remains the legitimate President of Myanmar and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi the legitimate State Counsellor.

The statement highlighted that under growing regional and international pressure the junta faces a severe crisis over its continued detention of political prisoners and, rather than granting genuine and unconditional amnesty, has resorted to deceptive manoeuvres such as transferring Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to house arrest and placing President U Win Myint under strict surveillance, with political prisoners continuing to be exploited as political hostages. It added that while the junta attempts to project an illusion of legitimacy and stability, the reality is defined by widespread institutional corruption, the total collapse of the rule of law and systematic lawless exploitation of the population, and that in a desperate bid to replenish its depleted forces the junta is conducting arbitrary daylight abductions of young people in urban and rural areas, forcing them into conscription or deploying them to the frontlines as human shields under the guise of People's Militia forces. The organisation urged all people inside and outside Myanmar to participate in unity in order to reject the junta's attempt to establish a post-sham-election military dictatorship behind a civilian facade. The arbitrary detention of political prisoners, forced conscription and use of civilians as human shields described in the statement constitute grave violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law.

Myanmar doctor in Australia completes 81-kilometre run for State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) reported that Myint Mo Oo, a doctor from Myanmar living in Australia and the daughter of actor and Free Funeral Service Society chairperson Kyaw Thu, completed an 81-kilometre run at Rouse Hill Regional Park in Sydney on 7 June 2026, taking 10 hours and 30 minutes and recording over 95,000 steps. The run formed part of the global 81 for 81 challenge demanding that the junta provide verifiable proof of life regarding detained State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. The challenge was launched on 1 June 2026 by her youngest son Kim Aris, who has called on supporters worldwide to walk, run, cycle or move in honour of his mother's birthday on 19 June.

Myint Mo Oo said it is still not known where Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is detained or whether she is still alive, and that the campaign is not about politics or party affiliation but about basic human rights, adding that it is unacceptable to detain a person and not let their family know whether they are alive. Kim Aris praised her effort in a social media post on 8 June, saying she had run the distance not for personal achievement but to join the growing call for proof of life for his mother. She previously set a Guinness World Record by completing the Sydney Marathon in a traditional Burmese longyi on 30 August 2025, and on the same day as her run the writer Ma Thida, the singer Yuzana and other members of the Myanmar community in Sydney took part in their own 81 for 81 solidarity challenges.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was detained during the illegal military coup of 1 February 2021 and subsequently convicted by a closed military court on a range of charges including corruption and breaching the state secrets law. She has received two recent sentence reductions and is currently serving an 18-year term, but her exact whereabouts remain unknown. Despite junta assertions that she has been transferred from a prison cell to house arrest, no independent verification has been provided and her family maintains that she remains entirely cut off from the outside world, in violation of international human rights law.

Activities of the National Unity Government and Ethnic Revolutionary Organisations

SCEF delegation concludes advocacy visit to Canada

The Steering Council for the Emergence of a Federal Democratic Union (SCEF) announced in a statement released on 9 June 2026 that its delegation had concluded a successful advocacy and relationship-building visit to Canada. The delegation comprised Daw Zin Mar Aung, Union Minister for Foreign Affairs of the National Unity Government and a member of the SCEF Secretariat, Saw Nimrod of the Karen National Union and Neineh Plo of the Interim Executive Council of Karenni State, both of whom are also SCEF Foreign Affairs members. U Kyaw Zaw, Advisor to the Acting President of the National Unity Government, joined the delegation in Canada.

In Ottawa, the delegation held meetings with Canadian politicians including the Honourable Rob Oliphant, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Shadow Ministers and Members of Parliament Garnett Genuis and Adam Chambers, who represent the Parliamentary Friends of a Democratic Burma. The delegation and Canadian officials identified opportunities to deepen ties, areas of cooperation, effective humanitarian assistance and support for a federal democratic union in Myanmar. The discussions reaffirmed Canada's deep concern over the continued violence against civilians. The delegation also met not-for-profit organisations in Ottawa and identified ways to collaborate on humanitarian assistance and federalism in Myanmar.

In Toronto, the delegation met the Honourable Bob Rae, former Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations and former Premier of Ontario, at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto, exchanging views on political developments, federal and humanitarian issues. The delegation further conducted a roundtable discussion with the Myanmar Policy and Community Knowledge Hub at the University of Toronto.

The delegation also held town halls with Myanmar diaspora communities in London and Toronto in eastern Canada and in Vancouver in western Canada. SCEF stated that the visit underscored the importance of Canada's support for humanitarian assistance, federal democracy and human rights in Myanmar and of strengthening collaboration, at a time when the junta's continued violence against civilians remains a matter of grave international concern.

SCEF urges international community to view Myanmar crisis as a political transformation

Mizzima reported that the Steering Council for the Emergence of a Federal Democratic Union (SCEF) has called on members of the international diplomatic community to view Myanmar's crisis as a broader political transformation rather than solely an armed conflict or humanitarian emergency. The message was delivered during a diplomatic briefing held on 5 June 2026, at which SCEF representatives outlined their assessment of the country's evolving political landscape and efforts to build the conditions for a future federal democratic union.

SCEF stated that international engagement with Myanmar should address questions of governance, legitimacy, political representation and long-term stability alongside immediate humanitarian concerns. It said the country is undergoing a profound political transformation and argued that responses focused exclusively on conflict and humanitarian assistance risk overlooking the deeper structural changes taking place across Myanmar.

During discussions with diplomats, participants examined issues including civilian protection, humanitarian access, political inclusion and the obstacles to achieving a durable peace settlement. SCEF said sustainable stability would require more than temporary arrangements or ceasefires, stressing that long-term peace depends on meaningful political transformation and broad-based participation by Myanmar's diverse communities.

The group reiterated its support for collective political coordination and an inclusive federal democratic system reflecting the aspirations of the country's ethnic and political stakeholders. The briefing formed part of SCEF's continuing outreach to regional and international partners as it seeks to encourage dialogue on potential pathways towards a stable and inclusive political future for Myanmar, against a backdrop in which the junta's continuing attacks on civilians remain in violation of international humanitarian law and international human rights law.

Tenth session of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw concludes with motions urging international action against junta

The Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH) announced that the tenth session of the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw was held on 1 June 2026, convening at 10 am with 23 agenda items. A total of 184 representatives attended, representing 65.25 per cent of those entitled to attend. The session opened with 10 seconds of silence in tribute to those who fell during successive democracy movements and the Spring Revolution.

Speaker U Aung Kyi Nyunt and Acting President Duwa Lashi La delivered opening addresses, and Union Minister for the Prime Minister's Office Dr Zaw Wai Soe read a message from NUG Prime Minister Mahn Winn Khaing Thann. Deputy Speaker of the Second Pyithu Hluttaw U Tun Tun Hein and rotating Chair of the Steering Council for the Emergence of a Federal Democratic Union (SCEF) Khu Oo Reh also spoke. A message from ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights was read by CRPH member U Robert Nyay Ray. CRPH Secretariat member Daw Phyu Phyu Thin presented the committee's activity report, and International Relations Committee member Daw Thandar reported on participation in the 152nd Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly, both of which were placed on record.

The Hluttaw adopted three motions. The first, tabled by Daw Ei Ei Pyone of Maubin constituency, urged international governments and organisations to continue exerting efforts by all available means for the immediate and unconditional release of State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and all political prisoners unlawfully detained by the junta. The second, tabled by U Akar Myo Htet of Yangon Constituency No. 7, urged ASEAN, international governments, parliaments, organisations and all democratic forces to cooperate solely with the people's revolutionary forces, including SCEF, and to extend greater humanitarian and other support. The third, tabled by U Okkar Min of Myeik constituency, urged the international community to impose coordinated sanctions including a halt to jet fuel supplies to the junta, on the basis of the resolution adopted at the 113th International Labour Conference concerning measures recommended under article 33 of the ILO Constitution. Each motion was seconded and supported in discussion before the Hluttaw resolved to convey the calls internationally.

CRPH member U Win Naing read out the draft statement of the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, which was approved without objection. Twenty-nine messages sent to the Hluttaw were placed on record before the Speaker delivered closing remarks and the session was adjourned at approximately 2.10 pm. Attendees included the Acting President, Pyidaungsu Hluttaw representatives, representatives of region, state, federal unit and area hluttaws, members of the National Unity Government, ethnic revolutionary organisations, civil society representatives, international diplomats, invited international guests and domestic and international media.

Myanmar ambassador says Security Council's failures on Myanmar have undermined its credibility

Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun, Permanent Representative of Myanmar to the United Nations, told the plenary meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on the Report of the Security Council under agenda item 27, held in New York on 5 June 2026, that the section on Myanmar in the report is an unfortunate encapsulation of limitations and failures by the Council to fulfil its mandate. He emphasised three areas in which the work of the Council on Myanmar should be improved, namely transparency, effectiveness and credibility.

On transparency, the ambassador stated that the Council had continued its trend of holding exclusive meetings on Myanmar, with two private meetings, one closed consultation and another under any other business in 2025. He said the closed format has restricted the public and other member states from readily accessing substantive discussion, areas of convergence and divergence, and the dynamics of Council members on the situation, adding that transparency on the work of the Council and its inclusivity should be universal and not selectively applied.

On effectiveness, Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun recalled that the Council issued a press statement after the 28 March earthquake, the first ever product on Myanmar since its adoption of resolution 2669 (2022), while a presidential statement and another press statement were put on hold owing to opposition from two permanent members. He stressed that de facto vetoes have been paralysing the work of the Council on Myanmar, making it largely ineffective, and that effective action by the Council should be commensurate with the deteriorating situation and human suffering inflicted by the military junta. He said, is a clear demonstration of its non-functionality as well as its irrelevance on the ground.

On credibility, the ambassador highlighted that repeated failures by the Council to protect civilians in Myanmar have undermined its credibility among the people of Myanmar. He said that since the inception of the sham elections and the subsequent sham administration, the junta has intensified its system-wide campaign of indiscriminate aerial attacks against civilians, with 178 airstrikes against civilians committed in April alone, and that the junta had conducted airstrikes on an internally displaced persons camp, a school and a church in Karenni State on the previous day. He stressed that such escalating violence did not occur in a vacuum, describing it as the direct consequence of the Council turning a blind eye to the junta's atrocities and the subsequent result of some Council members and regional players emboldening the junta through their unwarranted engagements. He said it is crystal clear that restoring the Council's credibility requires timely, effective and decisive action, including a follow-up resolution on Myanmar with enforcement measures.

Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun concluded that the Security Council should undertake a Myanmar-owned and Myanmar-led process in line with the aspirations of the people, and urged the international community to support the people of Myanmar and their efforts to eradicate the military dictatorship and build a federal democratic union.

Response of the International Community

APHR welcomes ASEAN Special Envoy's plan to engage Myanmar resistance organisations

ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR), in a statement released in June welcomed the stated intention of the ASEAN Special Envoy and Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Ma. Theresa Lazaro to meet Myanmar's political and ethnic resistance organisations (EROs), describing it as a potentially meaningful step towards inclusive dialogue under the Five-Point Consensus.

Mercy Chriesty Barends, Member of the Indonesian House of Representatives and Chairperson of APHR, said the Special Envoy's planned meetings with Myanmar's EROs would mark a departure from the narrow, junta-centric engagement that has long undermined ASEAN's credibility on Myanmar. She noted that resistance forces and civil society have for years called on ASEAN to widen its engagement beyond the junta, and that the initiative signals a willingness to heed that call.

APHR urged that the engagement be guided by clear principles, being transparent, rights-based and anchored in the lived realities and democratic aspirations of the people of Myanmar. It stated that any consultations must be conducted in good faith and without preconditions that would exclude legitimate stakeholders, including representatives of the National Unity Government, civil society and affected civilian communities. The organisation stressed that ASEAN must ensure such dialogue is substantive, leads to concrete de-escalation measures and is not used to legitimise or normalise the junta's parallel civilian transition process, and that any political roadmap must be people-centred and responsive to the aspirations of all those affected by years of military brutality. APHR called on the ASEAN Special Envoy to maintain momentum, ensure full transparency with ASEAN member states and civil society, and resist pressure from member states seeking premature normalisation with the junta, whose continuing atrocities constitute violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law.

British MPs demand stronger UK action on Myanmar in cross-party parliamentary debate

Mizzima reported that British Members of Parliament from across the political spectrum united in a parliamentary debate to demand that the British government escalate sanctions, pursue international justice and protect humanitarian aid sent into Myanmar. The debate, secured by former Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, placed pressure on the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to reverse what lawmakers characterised as two years of diplomatic paralysis on Myanmar. Hunt said Britain must not stand on the sidelines, pressing the government to introduce targeted sanctions against junta-controlled state-owned financial institutions and to pursue creative legal pathways to refer the crisis to the International Criminal Court.

Rushanara Ali, co-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Burma, said the British government should be doing everything it can to identify and sanction sources of revenue and arms, noting that the United Kingdom has not joined Canada in sanctioning the jet fuel sector, has not joined the European Union and the United States in sanctioning the Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE), and has not joined the United States in sanctioning Mytel. Luke Akehurst questioned why the rollout of new sanctions had been halted despite a documented surge in junta airstrikes against civilians, urging the targeting of Mytel and of maritime shipping networks supplying jet fuel and explosives materials. Afzal Khan asked whether the United Kingdom would join the European Union and the United States in sanctioning MOGE, describing the decade-long genocide against the Rohingya as one of the most horrifying examples of Islamophobia. Jim Shannon said the junta has executed a brutal, calculated campaign targeting predominantly Christian ethnic regions in Chin, Karenni and Kachin states as well as Sagaing and Yangon, with churches bombed in indiscriminate airstrikes, villages razed and pastors unlawfully detained, disappeared or killed.

Foreign Office Minister Hamish Falconer replied that the British government will certainly not sit on the sidelines, but announced no new sanction or policy shift, instead summarising actions taken years earlier. Anna Roberts, Executive Director of Burma Campaign UK, said there was unanimous cross-party support for stronger action but nothing new came from the Foreign Office, describing its lethargy as airstrikes and the death toll increase as inexplicable. Burma Campaign UK added 16 new products and businesses to its Boycott List on 10 June. The United Kingdom has sanctioned 44 individuals and 39 entities in Myanmar since the illegal coup of 2021. The airstrikes and destruction of civilian and religious sites raised during the debate constitute grave violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law.

Justice For Myanmar says international network sustains junta-controlled pearl industry

Justice For Myanmar (JFM), in a report released on 11 June 2026, said a network of companies in Thailand, Japan and Hong Kong is sustaining Myanmar's junta-controlled pearl industry by sourcing materials and aiding sales, despite sanctions on the Myanma Pearl Enterprise (MPE). JFM stated that the Canadian-linked Belpearl network uses a Thailand-based intermediary to procure pearl nuclei, a key component in pearl cultivation, from suppliers in Japan and Hong Kong and ships them to its pearl-farming operations in Myanmar.

According to JFM, Belpearl Myanmar runs pearl farms on Shwe Island and Zadet Nge Island in Tanintharyi Region under a production-sharing agreement with MPE, which has been sanctioned by the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada since 2023. Under the arrangement, MPE receives a share of pearl production and later sells it through government-run emporiums, generating revenue for the junta. The report stated that after sanctions were imposed on MPE, Belpearl's owners established BP Farms (Thailand) Co. Ltd. to act as a procurement and payment intermediary, and that documents reviewed by JFM show BP Farms purchased pearl nuclei from Belpearl companies in Hong Kong and Japan and shipped them directly to Belpearl Myanmar, using bank accounts in Thailand, Japan and Hong Kong.

JFM further stated that changes in Belpearl's corporate ownership may have exploited sanctions loopholes in jurisdictions without restrictions on MPE, and that companies and financial institutions in Thailand, Singapore, Japan and Hong Kong continue to facilitate business activities supporting Myanmar's pearl industry despite international sanctions targeting the junta's revenue streams. The organisation called on governments to strengthen sanctions enforcement, urged the European Union and Australia to impose sanctions on MPE, and renewed its call for Canadian authorities to investigate Belpearl and its owners over their dealings with the junta-controlled pearl sector. Rights groups argue that continued international trade in Myanmar pearls undermines sanctions and provides financial support to a junta responsible for widespread violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law, including war crimes.

Justice For Myanmar condemns FIFA over World Cup media rights deal with Mytel

Justice For Myanmar released a statement on 12 June and condemned FIFA's decision to award World Cup media rights to Mytel, a telecommunications operator partially owned by the sanctioned junta conglomerate Myanmar Economic Corporation (MEC), describing the move as a disregard for human rights and due diligence. The organisation stated that Mytel is a lucrative source of revenue for the brutal and illegal military junta and is partially owned and effectively controlled by MEC.

Justice For Myanmar said FIFA, the international governing body for football responsible for organising the World Cup, is once again demonstrating an unacceptable lack of due diligence and a total disregard for human rights while whitewashing a brand tainted by blood and corruption. Its analysis of Mytel's profit projections suggests that the junta's shareholding could yield US$270 million in Mytel's fifth to ninth years of operation and a further US$450 million in the five years after that, a major windfall for the junta and its top generals. The organisation stated that by financing the junta and facilitating its digital surveillance, Mytel is aiding and abetting continuing war crimes and crimes against humanity. Mytel has been targeted for export restrictions by the US Department of Commerce over its surveillance and financial support for the junta, while MEC is sanctioned by the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Canada and Australia.

Justice For Myanmar noted that FIFA's business with Mytel follows its decision to appoint the junta crony and Max Myanmar owner Zaw Zaw as head of its social responsibility committee, describing that appointment as absurd and deplorable. It recalled that the UN Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar concluded in 2019 that officials from Max Myanmar, among others, should be criminally investigated and, if appropriate, prosecuted for making a substantial and direct contribution to the commission of the crime against humanity of other inhumane acts and persecution. The organisation called on FIFA to stop aligning with the junta and its cronies and to live up to its stated human rights commitments and international responsibilities.     

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Date: 15 June 2026

Permanent Mission of Myanmar, New York