Attempts by the regime to more tightly control assistance to people affected by the recent earthquake have had a chilling effect on volunteer aid efforts in Myanmar’s second largest city.
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Attempts by the regime to more tightly control assistance to people affected by the recent earthquake have had a chilling effect on volunteer aid efforts in Myanmar’s second largest city.
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The swift delivery of aid to survivors of the recent earthquake must take precedence over transient political gains in a long-running conflict.
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Myanmar’s earthquake has left the regime’s already shaky administration reeling, with thousands of its staff in the capital now living in temporary shelters and complaining of limited assistance from their masters.
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U Saw Silver has long been cured of the leprosy he contracted in his teens, but the disease was diagnosed too late to prevent it causing permanent damage to his hands and feet, where the digits have almost entirely disappeared.
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It was in 1997, during his second term in prison, when U Thet Naing came up with his audacious plan. He was serving a seven-year sentence after leading fellow garment workers in a protest for better pay and conditions.
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Is it time to arrest U Aung Min? Well, no. That would be stupid. But civil society actors are regularly imprisoned under the Unlawful Associations Act for contacting non-state armed groups – a fate that has yet to befall the government’s peace negotiator-in-chief.
In Myanmar, if you have a car accident or your house burns down, who covers your losses? In most cases, the answer is simple: you do.
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