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Myanmar escalating aerial attacks on civilians: UN probe

The Myanmar military has escalated its aerial attacks against civilians, with the conflict ravaging the country showing no signs of abating, United Nations investigators said today.

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Myanmar ex-junta chief on first Thailand trip as ‘civilian’ leader

Myanmar's junta chief Min Aung Hlaing makes his first visit to Thailand as an ostensibly civilian leader on Thursday, as he seeks a return to the diplomatic fold for his pariah state.

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Detained Aung San Suu Kyi meets Red Cross official in Myanmar: president office

Myanmar's detained democratic leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi met with the nation's Red Cross representative on Monday, the regime president's office said.

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Myanmar’s regime approves death sentence for cyber scam offences

Myanmar's military-backed parliament approved a law on Tuesday that authorises capital punishment for those who detain or violently coerce victims into working in cyber scam centres, the speaker said.

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Wounded protesters fear arrest in junta hospitals

Protesters shot during anti-coup protests are avoiding treatment for their wounds, fearing arrest if they visit junta-run hospitals and searching desperately for sympathetic doctors to operate on them in secret.

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Teachers, students keep protests alive in ‘f***ing stubborn’ Monywa

Despite the dangers, protesters in the Sagaing Region capital say they will keep hitting the streets – to send a strong message to the people, the junta and the world, and to honour fallen comrades.

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Myanmar’s UN envoy calls for ‘effective’ measures ahead of Council meeting

U Kyaw Moe Tun says there is an urgent need to take strong collective measures against the military regime, as the Security Council prepares to hold closed-door talks on Myanmar on June 18.

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‘It was a massacre’: when state militias targeted Karen villages in Yangon

As tensions peaked between Karen and Bamar in early 1949, Burmese irregular forces committed a series of mass killings on the outskirts of the then-capital that have never been officially acknowledged.

BY Frontier

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Volume 6, Issue 18

January 27, 2021

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Myanmar enters 2021 with more friends than foes

The early delivery of vaccines is one of the many boons of the country’s geopolitics, but to really take advantage, Myanmar must bury the legacy of its isolationist past.

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Will the Kayin BGF go quietly?

The Kayin State Border Guard Force has come under intense pressure from the Tatmadaw over its extensive, controversial business interests and there’s concern the ultimatum could trigger fresh hostilities in one of the country’s most war-torn areas.

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