The parallel government has unveiled a paramilitary task force to combat abuses by the military and different resistance groups, but while many welcome such a force, some question whether it can enforce the law fairly.
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The parallel government has unveiled a paramilitary task force to combat abuses by the military and different resistance groups, but while many welcome such a force, some question whether it can enforce the law fairly.
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Resistance coordination bodies have failed to forge a unified vision of the country’s future, meaning it’s time for a better-structured, more inclusive approach.
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Families have been torn apart by the coup and beloved pets are no exception, with many owners going to great lengths to save or be reunited with their animals, while others suffer the anguish of separation.
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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.
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Conditions in Myanmar’s jails are dire for all inmates, but human rights organisations say political prisoners suffer more abuses – including medical neglect that often has deadly consequences.
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Young people and their families are seeking any way they can to evade the Myanmar military’s conscription drive – sometimes with the help of sympathetic local administrators.
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The United States claimed it foiled a plot by an alleged Yakuza boss to sell weapons-grade plutonium sourced by an ethnic armed group in Myanmar, but experts say the story doesn’t add up.
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The Restoration Council of Shan State has ramped up forced conscription in its headquarters region, but the troop build-up seems more aimed at other ethnic armed groups than the Myanmar military.
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Myanmar junta troops stationed in an embattled border town have withdrawn from their positions, a spokesman for a Myanmar ethnic armed group and a Thai official told Agence France-Presse on Thursday.
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Amid budget cuts and surging crime in the refugee camps in Bangladesh and war in their native Rakhine, more Rohingya are taking a perilous journey by boat to Indonesia and Malaysia, where an increasingly hostile reception awaits.
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Residents of a Myanmar trade hub fled across the border to Thailand on Tuesday amid the sounds of explosions and after an ethnic minority armed group said they had seized a key military base nearby, locals told AFP.
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The Kayin State Border Guard Force announced its separation from the Myanmar military, and is trying to rehabilitate its rights-abusing reputation, but new financial pressures have only deepened its dependence on the cyber scam industry.
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