Myanmar

Wang Xiaohong's talks with senior junta officials took place after a resistance offensive overran junta positions across the northern part of Shan State.

The measures included the U.S. Treasury Department's first sanctions against the Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise, the military's largest single source of foreign revenue.

Some Myanmar observers hope that the coordinated offensive in Shan State will catalyze wider changes, and even lead to the collapse of the military administration.

The arrest of the former army officer followed the imposition of heavy prison terms on two high-ranking members of the military government.

The Three Brotherhood Alliance has launched coordinated attacks aimed at dislodging the junta and its allies from strategically important regions of Shan State bordering China.

The current resistance is led by tech-savvy middle-class youth who have tasted democracy and will not rest till it is restored.

The case, filed on behalf of five ethnic Chin complainants, is the latest in a string of attempts to bring the country's generals to justice in a foreign jurisdiction.

Since military attacks in September 2021, the town in Myanmar's Chin State, close to the border with India, has become a ghost town.

They include former teachers, a fighter who was shot three times, and another who lost his hand making weapons. All are undaunted and determined to end military rule.

The Mung Lai Hkyet camp houses around 500 people displaced by military assaults over the past decade.

The report came as the opposition National Unity Government NUG claimed that 21 children were injured in a military strike in Sagaing Region.

Local units producing an array of small arms, mortars and ammunition have mushroomed in Sagaing Region.