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Myanmar junta executes democracy activists in first such killings in decades
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Myanmar’s junta has executed four prisoners including a former politician and a veteran activist, drawing shock and revulsion at the country’s first use of capital punishment in decades. Junta-controlled media reporte...
Who were the four people executed by Myanmar’s junta?
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The 53-year-old rose to prominence as a student leader during the 1988 uprising against Myanmar’s previous military regime. The protest movement was brutally crushed by the military, which used lethal force against th...
Myanmar junta executes democracy activists in first such killings in decades
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Myanmar’s junta has executed four prisoners, including a former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, state media said on Monday, in the country’s first use of capital punishment in decades. Phyo Zeya Thaw, a former...
China calls on Myanmar junta to hold talks with opponents
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China’s foreign minister has called for Myanmar’s junta to hold talks with its opponents, during his first visit to the country since the 2021 coup that plunged it into turmoil. Beijing is one of the Myanmar military’...
Aung San Suu Kyi moved to solitary confinement, says Myanmar junta
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Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved to solitary confinement inside a prison compound in Myanmar’s capital, Naypyidaw, according to the junta. The former leader, wie is 77, has been held by the military since 1 February la...
Aung San Suu Kyi moved to solitary confinement, says Myanmar junta
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Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved to solitary confinement inside a prison compound in Myanmar’s capital, Naypyidaw, according to the junta. The former leader, wie is 77, has been held by the military since 1 February la...
Myanmar junta accused of ‘relentless attacks’ on children
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Scores of children have been killed in Myanmar since last year’s coup, not just in the crossfire of conflict but as deliberate targets of a military willing to inflict immense suffering, a United Nations expert has sa...
Myanmar junta accused of ‘relentless attacks’ on children
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Scores of children have been killed in Myanmar since last year’s coup, not just in the crossfire of conflict but as deliberate targets of a military willing to inflict immense suffering, a United Nations expert has sa...
Guinee-junta laat die voormalige leier Alpha Conde toe om die land te verlaat
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Guinese voormalige leier Alpha Conde het Saterdag op 'n vliegtuig na Turkye geklim nadat die junta wat hom omvergewerp het sy reis na die buiteland vir mediese behandeling gemagtig het., amptenare gesê. Die 84-jarige Conte, wat verlede jaar uitgesit is...
Myanmar junta sentences Aung San Suu Kyi to five years for corruption
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Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to five years in prison after she was found guilty of corruption by a court in military-controlled Myanmar, the latest in a series of legal cases condemned as an attempt to remove h...
Myanmar junta takes place of Aung San Suu Kyi at Rohingya hearing
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Myanmar’s military junta has appeared in place of the detained Aung San Suu Kyi at the UN’s top court, where it sought to throw out a case alleging that it committed genocide against the country’s Rohingya minority. T ...
Myanmar junta to take place of Suu Kyi at ICJ hearings into Rohingya genocide claims
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The United Nations’ top court will resume hearings into the alleged genocide against Myanmar’s Rohingya minority on Monday, with the military junta expected to represent the country in place of Aung San Suu Kyi. Die c ...
Myanmar’s junta struggles to prevent protests planned for coup anniversary
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Myanmar’s military junta has threatened sedition and terrorism charges against anyone who shuts their business, claps or bang pots on Tuesday, as it tries to stamp out any protests planned to mark the one-year annive...
Myanmar’s junta torching ‘village after village’ in bid to quell opposition
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Op die oggend van 6 Januarie, Boi Van Thang set out on a motorbike across the mountainous terrain of Chin state in western Myanmar. He would travel to a nearby village, he told his wife, and bring back meat for her and...
Myanmar protesters hold ‘silent strike’ against military junta
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The streets of many towns and cities across Myanmar were deserted on Friday as the public held a “silent strike” to protest against the military government, days after a massacre of villagers that has provoked interna...
'Doen of sterf': Mianmar se junta het dalk 'n perdebynes se nes opgewek
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Sondagoggend, 'n klein groepie betogers het saam in Kyimyindaing Township gestap, Yangon, waai trosse eugenia en rose. Hulle het 'n banierlesing gedra: “Die enigste ware tronk is vrees en die ware vryheid i...