Myanmar junta

The United Nations on Tuesday accused Myanmar’s military junta of using violence and intimidation to coerce citizens into voting in upcoming military-controlled elections, while armed opposition groups were also employing…
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A 30-year-old protester was attending an anti-junta gathering in Myanmar’s central Sagaing region on Monday when he heard a strange whirring sound above him — the slicing hum of fan blades. Moments later, explosives rained down from a…
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Myanmar’s junta has suspended the issuing of permits for men to work abroad, it said, weeks after introducing a military conscription law that led to thousands trying to leave the country. The junta, which is struggling to crush widespread…
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The UN human rights expert for Myanmar on Wednesday called on the United States to further tighten sanctions on the country’s military rulers to include their main revenue source, the state oil and gas enterprise. UN Special Rapporteur Tom…
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Myanmar's junta said Thursday it will release 700 prisoners, including a former British ambassador, a Japanese journalist and an Australian adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi's ousted government. Former British envoy Vicky Bowman, Australian…
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Cambodia’s foreign minister on Saturday said the Southeast Asian regional bloc ASEAN had decided that Myanmar’s ruling generals would remain barred from any of its meetings until they show progress on a peace plan. Prak Sokhonn, a special…
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Myanmar's military authorities have executed four democracy activists accused of helping carry out "terror acts", state media said on Monday, the Southeast Asian nation's first executions in decades. Sentenced to death in January in a…
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