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Tag: Myanmar crackdown

Posted inMyanmar

Myanmar junta pays dearly to sell its hated coup

by Bertil Lintner March 14, 2021March 19, 2021

By any view or measure, Myanmar’s new ruling State Administration Council (SAC) junta has an image problem. The coup-installed regime has gunned down scores of pro-democracy protesters, arrested over 2,000 activists and politicians, shut down media and earned condemnation from nearly every corner of the globe in six short weeks in power.   It’s thus […]

An old woman struggles to carry to young boys during the mass exodus to Bangladesh. Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh say Myanmar troops and Rakhine Buddhists killed villagers indiscriminately during their crackdown, setting fire to hundreds of villages. Photo: AFP/ Muniz Uz Zaman.
Posted inAT Finance, Bangladesh, Myanmar, South Asia, World

Rohingya rebel group calls for one-month ceasefire as exodus grows

by AFP September 10, 2017February 18, 2020

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