Myanmar’s desperate military junta is ramping up attacks on villages that have fallen to opposition groups UNITED NATIONS -- Myanmar’s desperate military junta is ramping up attacks on villages that have fallen to opposition groups, carrying out ...

Myanmar’s military forces are increasingly using banned antipersonnel landmines that indiscriminately kill and injure people across the country. For the first time, Myanmar has topped the global list of landmine casualties,

In its latest Landmine Monitor report, published yesterday, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) said that anti-personnel mines and explosive remnants of war killed or wounded 1,003 people in Myanmar in 2023, almost three times the number in the previous year. Of these, at least 228 people were killed.

Landmines and unexploded munitions claimed more victims in Myanmar than in any other country last year, a monitor said on Wednesday, with over 1,000 people killed or wounded in the country.