ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan issued the request based only on the violence against the Rohingya in 2016 and 2017 with no reference to the 2021 coup that plunged Myanmar into civil war. The last three years have changed the relationship between the putschist military and ethnic minorities, complicating the situation on the ground.

Pneg Deren was detained after he travelled to Yunnan for talks with Chinese officials, local media report. Despite pressure from Beijing, his armed group, the MNDAA, maintains control of Lashio, a city in Shan State. Meanwhile, junta planes bomb the area, killing at least 12, including eight children. A Baptist church was also struck.

Msgr Celso Ba Shwe - Bishop of Loikaw - took part in the celebration that every year on the third Sunday of November recalls the bond of solidarity between Japanese Catholics and the Church in former Burma, now wounded by war. Support for schools in the forest through the Seeds of Hope initiative. Archbishop Kikuchi: ‘Hope is born from the heart of those who walk together’.

Myanmar’s military strongman met with Chinese Premier Li Qiang during a two-day summit of the Greater Mekong Subregion. Chinese source stresses infrastructure projects undermined by the civil war, noting that Beijing has also held discussions with the militias that control the borders and the rare earth trade.

In the first nine months of the year at least 435 people were killed by the military. It was 113 in 2021. This is compounded by artillery strikes and air attacks against houses, schools and religious buildings, as well as massacres and arson attacks by troops in the field. The junta uses fear as a weapon. At least a thousand civilians trapped in fighting in Rakhine State.

A grenade landed on the building on Friday; no one was hurt or killed. Myanmar's military junta said it would launch an investigation to find those responsible. Discontent towards China is rising in Myanmar, while Beijing asked ethnic militias to stop fighting in Shan State.