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In February 2024, Myanmar's military authorities activated the People's Military Service Law, giving them a legal basis to conscript men and women of eligible age into a conflict the military has struggled to sustain. In practice, much of this recruitment appears to be carried out through detention, coercion and disappearance rather than formal call-up, and often without notice to families.

Myanmar Witness has investigated seven reported Myanmar Air Force airstrikes on sites holding captured military personnel across Rakhine, Shan, and Kayah states between October 2024 and March 2026. Verified footage and satellite imagery show shackled detainees, barred cells, and damage consistent with aerial attacks, with more than 200 people killed or injured across the seven incidents.

A two-part CIR investigation examines the use of displacement orders in Gaza between January and July 2025. It assesses what those orders meant in practice for civilians directed into shrinking safe zones, cut off from hospitals and water infrastructure, and prevented from returning to areas absorbed into an expanding military buffer zone.