The Senthang Central Council (SCC) issued a statement on May 23 urging residents to dig bomb shelters and stockpile food and medicine, citing concerns over a major junta offensive involving multiple military columns advancing into Chin State from different directions. It warned that junta troops could also infiltrate and deploy across the Chin State’s Senthang region through various routes, and urged residents to regard the current period as a critical phase of the national situation. The SCC also announced that the Senthang Revolution Force (SRF) will strengthen security inspections at checkpoints across the region. It also cautioned that anyone seeking…
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The Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM) said that children across Myanmar, including in Chin State, continue to suffer from the junta’s airstrikes. It has been one year since the Oehteinkwin Village school airstrike in Sagaing Region’s Yinmabin Township, which killed more than 20 students, yet children across the country continue to endure similar brutal airstrikes by the junta, the IIMM said on May 12. The airstrike on the school in Oehteinkwin Village occurred on the morning of May 12, 2025. Earlier this month, at least five children aged between five months and 10 years were killed in a junta…
The Chinland Defence Force-Tonzang (CDF-Tonzang) said sufficient resistance forces are deployed in and around Tonzang Town in northern Chin State to ensure local communities’ security, allowing residents to remain peacefully in their homes without concern over the military situation or the need to displace. The statement came amid growing resident concerns over reports that the junta is attempting to advance on Tonzang. It said four Chin resistance groups — the Chinland Defence Force-Tonzang (CDF-Tonzang), Chin National Army (CNA), Rawn Chin Defence Force (RCDF), and Zo Chin Defence Force (Zo Army) — have fortified positions in and around Tonzang Town. Pu…
A junta convoy transporting personnel and staff to help re-establish administrative control in the recently recaptured town of Falam in Chin State was ambushed en route, killing at least five people, including two officers. The convoy, traveling from Kale town in neighboring Sagaing Region to Falam, was ambushed on May 6 along the Kale-Taingen (Siyim) Road as it entered Chin State, according to the Chinland Defense Force–Civic Defense Militia Siyin (CDF-CDM Siyin). During the ambush, five junta troops, including a captain and a lieutenant, were killed, while resistance forces seized several small arms and a military truck. The Chin resistance…
The prosecution of coup leader-turned-president Min Aung Hlaing under the Timor-Leste justice system for crimes committed in Chin State during his tenure as head of the junta has entered its next phase, according to the Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO), which initiated the legal proceedings. Charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity against Min Aung Hlaing were formally filed with the District Court in Dili, the capital of Timor-Leste, on April 30, the Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO) announced on May 4. “The case was first filed with Timor-Leste’s Department of Justice in January. On February 1, we submitted…
As the junta prepares an offensive in southern Chin State, the Chin People’s Union/Chin People’s Army (CPU/CPA) is making plans to counter it, the group’s spokesperson said. During a special online fundraising event for the Chin Brotherhood (CB) Alliance held on May 2, CPU/CPA secretary and spokesperson Salai Yaw Man said this. “The junta has regained control of Falam Town in northern Chin State, and it is likely to extend its operations into southern Chin State as well. The formation of the CPU/CPA is an arrangement made in anticipation of such threats. We’ve prepared in advance what needed to be…
After the junta recaptured the strategically important town of Falam and the nearby Surbung Airport in northern Chin State, it is likely to launch further offensives in other liberated areas—a term used for resistance-controlled territories in Chin State, military analysts said. Falam, which the Chin Brotherhood (CB) Alliance had controlled for about a year, was recaptured by the junta on April 25 following a six-month large-scale operation involving ground offensives, heavy airstrikes, and sustained artillery shelling. “The junta’s recapture of Falam means it now controls the entire Kale–Taingen–Falam–Hakha Road. With Surbung Airport back in its hands, the regime can also…
Just days after coup leader Min Aung Hlaing was inaugurated as president, his newly rebranded administration announced the revocation of publishing licenses for three news agencies, including two major outlets based in Chin State. The Ministry of Information of the junta-turned-new administration announced on April 24 that the news production rights of Chin State-based Khonumthung and Chin World, as well as Nowadays News, currently based in Chiang Mai, Thailand, were revoked with effect from April 9. Regardless of the junta’s various forms of oppression, Khonumthung will remain steadfast in its commitment to truth and the people, and will continue to…
The Chin People’s Union/Chin People’s Army (CPU/CPA) and the Interim Khumi Affairs Coordination Council/Paletwa Council (IKACC/PC), both Chin resistance groups based in southern Chin State, held their first meeting to explore possible cooperation, according to IKACC. On March 25, CPU/CPA officials met with the IKACC/PC Alliance Relations delegation in Matupi Town, Chin State, where they held constructive discussions, according to an April 22 statement from IKACC. Both sides discussed possible areas of cooperation, including the shared use of logistical routes in southern Chin State during the revolution, IKACC said, citing delegation leader Salai Paul. IKACC/PC said it seeks to build…
During the meeting between leaders of the Chin People’s Union/Chin People’s Army (CPU/CPA)—a coalition of resistance forces based in southern Chin State—and the United League of Arakan/Arakan Army (ULA/AA), discussions covered not only political and military issues but also trade and economic matters. In February, at the invitation of the ULA/AA, members of the CPU/CPA Central Executive Committee visited Arakan (Rakhine) State and met with ULA/AA leaders, including Commander-in-Chief Major General Twan Mrat Naing. “The two sides discussed future political and military cooperation during the revolutionary movement. We also explored potential cooperation in regional trade, including mutual trade between the…