The March 2025 earthquake damaged 180 mosques and Islamic buildings across 29 townships. Junta restrictions are still blocking Muslim communities from repairing and rebuilding them. On March 28, 2025, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck central Myanmar as Muslims gathered for Friday prayers, killing…
New BHRN report documents decades of restrictions on Muslim places of worship and finds that 180 Islamic religious buildings were affected by the earthquake and at least 670 Muslims were killed. Successive Myanmar governments and military regimes imposed discriminatory restrictions that obstructed Muslim communities from constructing, repairing, and renovating mosques, and the military junta has continued those restrictions after the March 2025 earthquake, the Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN) said in a report…
Military-backed nationalist networks escalated their online campaigns. Online hate speech targeting Muslims, Rohingya, and women intensified across Myanmar’s social media landscape in 2025, fueled by military-backed nationalist networks and amplified by platforms with weak enforcement, the Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN) said today. A new report by BHRN documents 943 instances of hate speech recorded on Telegram…
Today marks five years since the Myanmar military seized power on February 1, 2021. In that time, the junta has killed thousands of civilians, detained more than 30,000 political prisoners, and displaced at least 3.6 million people. Its atrocities, which include war crimes and crimes against humanity, have only intensified over the past…
Equal protection has been systematically denied for decades. Today marks 77 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) affirmed that all people are entitled to safety, dignity, and equal protection under the law. Yet in Myanmar, these principles have been systematically violated for decades by the military, through…
An alarming rise in incitement against Muslim minorities. Documentation by the Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN) reveals an alarming increase in hate speech and incitement to violence targeting Myanmar’s Muslim minorities, including the Rohingya. These developments, amplified by ultranationalist Buddhist monks aligned with the military…
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August 2026
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