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Southeast Asian leaders set for Myanmar crisis talks

Editor April 24, 2021

United Nations special envoy for Myanmar, Christine Schraner Burgener, is expected on the sidelines of the summit. Southeast Asian leaders will hold Myanmar crisis talks Saturday with junta leader Min Aung Hlaing who has become the focus of international outrage over a military coup and

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Military coup: Myanmar crisis deepens as troops fire at funeral

Editor March 29, 2021

The bloodshed drew renewed Western condemnation. Myanmar security forces opened fire at a funeral on Sunday, witnesses said, as people across the country gathered to mourn 114 people killed the previous day in the worst crackdown on protests since last month’s military coup. Mourners fled the shooting at a service for 20-year-old student Thae Maung […]

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At least 39 reported killed in Myanmar as Chinese factories burn

Editor March 15, 2021

China’s embassy described the situation as “very severe” after the attacks on the Chinese-financed factories. Security forces killed at least 22 anti-coup protesters in the poor, industrial Hlaingthaya suburb of Myanmar’s main city on Sunday after Chinese-financed factories were set ablaze there, an advocacy group said. A further 16 protesters were killed in

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Myanmar security forces kill at least 34 protesters: Reports

Editor March 4, 2021

The forces were seen firing slingshots at protesters, chasing them down and even brutally beating an ambulance crew in videos Myanmar security forces dramatically escalated their crackdown on protests against last month’s coup, killing at least 34 protesters on Wednesday in several cities, according to accounts on social media and local news reports compiled by […]

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Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi detained, sparks fears of military coup

Editor February 1, 2021 0

Mobile data, phone services disrupted in Myanmar Myanmar’s military has detained the country’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the country’s president in an apparent coup, a spokesman for her ruling party said Monday. The dramatic escalation came after weeks of rising tensions between the military, which ruled the country for nearly five […]