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In early June 2023, NUG announced the formation of the PDF's first battalion in Yangon Region – Battalion 5101. [231] On 19 June 2023, the Urban Owls guerilla group assassinated Ye Khaing, the operations director and head of security of Yangon International Airport, and a former air force major, outside his house at Mingaladon Township, Yangon.
An airstrike by Myanmar’s army on a village under the control of an armed ethnic minority group killed about 40 people and injured at least 20 others, officials of the group and a local charity ...
24 August - Hip-hop artist Byu Har is sentenced to 20 years in prison for criticizing the military-controlled government's inability to provide electricity to Yangon- a harsher sentence than other celebrities found guilty of criticism. [22]
4 January – The junta announces the pardon of 9,652 prisoners, including 114 foreigners, to mark the country's independence day. [1]5 January – Operation 1027: Battle of Laukkai: The MNDAA gain full control of Laukkai, capital of the Kokang Self-Administered Zone following the mass surrender of thousands of Tatmadaw forces, officials and their families within the city.
Protests in Myanmar, known locally as the Spring Revolution [17] [18] (Burmese: နွေဦးတော်လှန်ရေး, Burmese pronunciation: [nwè.ú.tɔ̀.l̥àɰ̃.jé]), began in early 2021 in opposition to the coup d'état on 1 February, staged by Min Aung Hlaing, the commander-in-chief of the country's armed forces, the Tatmadaw. [19]
In 2007, hundreds of thousands of monks protested against the military junta's rule, and called for free elections, minority rights and the release of political prisoners in an event now known as the Saffron Revolution. [43] The protest originally began in response to the government's removal of price subsidies for compressed natural gas. [44]
Military situation in Myanmar as of 22 December 2024. Areas controlled by the Tatmadaw are highlighted in red. By the second day of the coup, thousands of protesters were marching in the streets of Yangon, and other protests erupted nationwide, largely halting commerce and transportation.
The People's Defence Force [a] 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. [14]