Myanmar Domestic News Updates – Aug 14, 2025 Morning
๐๐ 1. Meeting between the Interim Central Committee for People’s Administration and Magway Region People’s Administration Teams
It is reported that the National Unity Government’s Interim Central Committee for People’s Administration and the People’s Administration Teams from Magway Region held their 16th coordination meeting for 2025 on August 13.
During the meeting, ministries provided briefings on their ongoing operations, while relevant ministries also discussed and addressed agenda items submitted by various townships.
The meeting was attended by permanent deputy ministers, second deputy ministers, associate deputy ministers, departmental officials, and members of township-level People’s Administration Teams from Magway Region, according to the report.
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๐๐ 2. Discussion between the Prosecution and Litigation Department and Township Legal Officers
The Ministry of Justice under the National Unity Government announced that the 4th discussion session of 2025 between its Prosecution and Litigation Department and township legal officers was held on August 10 at 9:30 a.m. Myanmar Standard Time.
Attendees included the Director General, directors, and responsible staff from the Prosecution and Litigation Department, field liaison officers, legal officers from 27 townships, and clerical staff.
During the meeting, legal officers discussed issues in judicial matters in their respective townships, challenges encountered, appeal and amendment cases, draft legal advisory notes, monthly reports, as well as budgetary and financial matters. The Director General and directors provided clarifications and engaged in further discussions, according to the report.
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๐๐ 3. Defend Myanmar Democracy highlights ASEAN’s ineffectiveness in addressing Myanmar’s crisis
Defend Myanmar Democracy has stated that ASEAN’s actions in relation to the Myanmar issue have been ineffective.
It noted that when Myanmar joined ASEAN in 1997 under the military dictatorship of former Senior General Than Shwe, the regime was still perpetrating oppression against civilians. Nevertheless, ASEAN recognized the military regime as the legitimate government and admitted Myanmar as a member state—an act which, according to the group, amounted to tacit endorsement of the junta’s crimes.
At present, although ASEAN has restricted political representatives from Myanmar from attending ASEAN Summits since 2021, in 2024 and 2025 it permitted a delegation led by U Aung Kyaw Moe, Permanent Deputy Minister of the junta’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to attend at a “non-political” level.
Furthermore, the group pointed out that ambassadors and officials from ASEAN member states have continued to hold both official and unofficial meetings with top junta figures, including junta leader Min Aung Hlaing, on numerous occasions.
It also noted that while ASEAN chairmanships continue to adhere to the “Five-Point Consensus” agreed upon in 2021 for resolving Myanmar’s conflict, in practice this has yielded no tangible results. ASEAN has continued to ignore demands from revolutionary forces and civil society organizations that represent the voice of the Myanmar people.
The group concluded that ASEAN’s actions expose a wide gap between stated objectives on paper and actual implementation, raising increasing questions about ASEAN’s role in addressing Myanmar’s crisis.
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๐๐ 4. From June 1 to August 13 — 1 woman and 33 men killed after being detained by the terrorist military junta
According to information collected by the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), between June 1 and August 13, 2025, a total of 34 people—comprising 1 woman and 33 men—across Myanmar died after being detained by the terrorist military junta. The report confirms their names and notes that Sagaing Region had the highest number of deaths, with 12 recorded cases.
On August 9, in Myingyan Township, Mandalay Region, approximately 100 junta troops raided Balone Village. While local residents were fleeing, Ko Khine Lin encountered the advancing military column, was captured, and then beheaded.
From the start of the unlawful military coup on February 1, 2021, to August 13, 2025, a total of 7,063 pro-democracy activists and civilians have been killed during the Spring Revolution as a result of actions by the terrorist military junta and its subordinate forces.
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๐๐ 5. Family informed more than six months after a conscripted youth’s death at the frontline in Taunggyi
TGI Support Revolution reported that a young man from Lanmadaw Ward, Taunggyi, who was forcibly conscripted in Batch 1, was killed at the frontline, but his family was only informed more than six months later.
The victim, Maung Chan Myay Aung (aka Aung Aung), aged 31, was forcibly taken and sent for Batch 1 military service in April 2024 by the ward administrator and clerk through coercion and deception.
About six months ago, he died at the frontline near Lashio City in northern Shan State. His family was only notified last week, after which they were belatedly allowed to hold his funeral.
Of the 5 million kyat given by the junta as “military service compensation” for the youth, the ward administrator and clerk kept 4.2 million kyat, giving the family only 800,000 kyat. Despite repeated objections, the family was coerced into signing an unlawful acknowledgment of receipt.
It was also reported that conscripted youths from Kyauk Gyi Su, Yadanar Thiri, Kan Thar, Sein Pan, Nyaung Phyu Sakhan, and Chan Mya Thar Si Wards in Taunggyi Township have frequently died at the frontline, but their families are often informed only long after their deaths.
The above news was provided by Radio NUG correspondents Thar Ki, Khur Shel, and Pade Phoe.
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