The Myanmar junta's years of assault on healthcare facilities and healthcare workers have severely hindered the emergency response to the 28 March earthquake, said Human Rights watch and Physicians for Human Rights, as the arrests and prosecutions of healthcare workers affiliated with anti-coup movements and the closing of private hospitals that hire them has drastically reduced healthcare operations in quake-affected areas.

On 4 March, Senior General Min Aung Hliang, leader of Myanmar's military junta, met with the Russian President Vladimir Putin during a goodwill visit to Russia. The junta leader not only gifted Putin a book of horoscopes and six elephants but also made a bizarre claim about his past life—that he was a rat king who gave a mushroom to the Buddha. From Min Aung Hlaing’s bizarre beliefs to Donald Trump’s supernatural mandate, absurd claims are shaping public policies—and putting humanity at risk.

In June 2024, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar released a report accusing five of Thailand's biggest banks of facilitating the weapons trade of Myanmar's military junta. Thai companies were also allegedly linked to the trade of arms and aviation fuel with the junta. So far, the Thai authorities have not offered a public confirmation of these allegations. The question remains whether it will take the necessary step to avoid being a silent enabler of war crimes.

The Criminal Court has dismissed charges against Tun Min Latt, a businessman with ties to Myanmar’s junta leaders, on the grounds that evidence used by the public prosecutor was not strong enough.

Thailand Deputy Prime Minister Don Pramudwinai’s decision to push through with “informal” meetings with the illegal Myanmar military junta despite widespread criticism and condemnation is a betrayal of the Myanmar people and an affront to ASEAN unity, Southeast Asian lawmakers said today.