Seven US-funded clinics, servicing around 80,000 refugees from Myanmar, have closed since the new US administration froze funding.

No elections can be held under a state of emergency, meaning the regime’s vaunted polls will now have to wait until at least the second half of 2025.

Deprived of opportunity and security by the coup, they scrape by doing hard jobs for little pay in Thailand, living in fear of being arrested and sent back to Myanmar.

The UN’s IIMM said impunity was emboldening the perpetrators, mainly junta forces, to commit further violence, and urged that steps be taken to prosecute them.

Myanmar’s armed conflict has disrupted cement production while the regime is promising large quantities will be imported in ...