Click to expand Image Villagers extinguish a fire that engulfed a house after a Myanmar military airstrike, Tabayin, Myanmar, November 13, 2025. The two countries have long supported the junta while blocking international action on military atrocities at the UN Security Council. “The past five years are a bleak illustration of the Myanmar military’s failed strategy to assert control by killing and terrorizing civilians,” said Joe Freeman, Myanmar researcher at Amnesty International. Following the March 2025 earthquake that struck central Myanmar, the junta obstructed access to lifesaving services in opposition-held areas. “Five years after the coup, Myanmar’s human rights and humanitarian catastrophe faces dwindling foreign assistance and attention,” said Shayna Bauchner, Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch.