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Enabling Atrocities: UN Member States Arms Transfers to the Myanmar Military". You can't claim to want to help put a fire out while pouring gasoline over the flames. States that won't help Myanmar, should stop profiting from making things worse.

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yea, the Ukraine is front page news, try an find ANYTHING in western papers about the atrocities in Burma:::::
and this has been going on for over 13 months!

Does the world only care about White people?

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Over 5 dozen civilians have been burned since the end of Dec 2021 including 35 in #Karenni, & 5 in #Magway. Scorched earth campaigns by the junta has trapped civilians who are targeted by the military. Women, children & the elderly among those killed.
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanma ... 93907.html

Three children killed in Loikaw shelling incident
The three siblings died instantly when a heavy artillery shell landed in their village near the Karenni capital on Tuesday
An artillery shell that landed in a village near the Kayah (Karenni) State capital Loikaw on Tuesday killed three siblings and injured their father and older sister, according to sources.

Two brothers, aged 7 and 10, and their sister, aged 12, died instantly when the shell detonated in the village of Le Htwel on Tuesday afternoon, a spokesperson for Kayan Generation Youth, a local community group, told Myanmar Now.

Their father and 15-year-old sister also suffered unspecified injuries, he added.
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https://www.myanmar-now.org/en/news/thr ... g-incident

JUST IN: Myanmar’s junta troops and its militia Pyu Saw Htee group are burning Taungkone village at around 9:00 am this morning. Now, the #junta forces are heading north to Inbyetaw and Yetohkan villages of Wetlet Township of #Shwebo District in #Sagaing region.
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Military fires heavy artillery at northwestern Myanmar IDP camp
Junta troops and members of the Pyu Saw Htee militia shell the camp in Sagaing’s Taze Township from one of the villages that the camp’s residents had originally fled
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The Myanmar army and members of their allied Pyu Saw Htee militia shelled a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Sagaing Region’s Taze Township on Sunday, according to members of a local anti-junta defence force.

They reportedly abducted four men from the camp following the attack, whose whereabouts and condition was not known at the time of reporting.
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481 days!!

Dont let the people of Burma be forgotten

ASEAN Must Not Allow Myanmar Junta to Control Humanitarian Aid Effort
National Unity Government (NUG), and proposed to ASEAN that it do the same. But with the situation inside Myanmar now a massive humanitarian emergency, its people cannot wait any longer for ASEAN to act. ASEAN must call for a massive global humanitarian response to the crisis if it has any hope of saving its credibility.

The timing is critical for ASEAN and the people of Myanmar. Their country has been under siege from the military junta for more than 15 months and is now a humanitarian catastrophe. The military has caused the total number of people in need of humanitarian assistance inside Myanmar to reach an estimated 14 million, almost three times the number of those who have fled the war in Ukraine.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/guest ... ffort.html

Volunteers and humanitarians struggle to meet demand as shortages of food and medicine as well as fear of junta attacks haunt the lives of more than 900,000 internally displaced people in Myanmar.
The number of internally displaced people, or IDPs, has soared throughout the country since the military seized power in February 2021, especially after fighting escalated between the military and ethnic armed groups and armed resistance forces. Despite the efforts of altruistic groups and individuals to provide IDPs with food, shelter, clothing and medicine, the situation is dire.

Figures released by the United Nations on April 6 estimated that around 560,900 people have been displaced since the coup, including 234,600 in southeast Myanmar and 227,300 in the northwest. Including those displaced before the coup, the total number of IDPs throughout the country is estimated to be around 907,500 as of April.
.....Director of the Karenni Human Rights Group U Banyar said that IDPs are facing shortages of food and medicine because of restrictions the military has placed on the transportation of vital goods like rice and medicine throughout the country, in an attempt to limit supplies going towards resistance fighters.

“The transport of basic necessities, such as rice and medicine, into the state from other parts of the country requires prior registration with the state government appointed by the junta council. If a vehicle brings rice or medicine into the state without registration documents, the occupants of the vehicle will be arrested,” Banyar said.
https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/a-fl ... ict-zones/
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Myanmar court rules enough evidence against Sean Turnell and Aung San Suu Kyi for trial to proceed
Posted 4h ago

Australia's Foreign Minister, Penny Wong, has rejected a Myanmar court's ruling that is allowing the continuation of a trial against Australian economist Sean Turnell on charges of violating the country's official secrets law.

The court ruled prosecutors presented sufficient evidence against Mr Turnell, ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi and three other defendants for the trial to proceed.

Senator Wong released a statement on Friday evening, calling for Mr Turnell's immediate release.

"We will continue to advocate for Professor Turnell's interests and well-being and will not stop until he is safely back with his family," the statement said.

Mr Turnell had served as an adviser to Ms Suu Kyi, who was arrested when her elected government was ousted by the army on February 1, 2021.

The military's takeover triggered peaceful nationwide protests that security forces quashed with lethal force, triggering armed resistance that some UN experts now characterise as civil war.

Mr Turnell was arrested in Yangon, the largest city, a few days after the military seized power.

He is being tried in the capital, Naypyidaw, with Ms Suu Kyi and three former cabinet members charged in the same case.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-10/ ... /101144702
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YEP 500 days!!

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As demonstrations against the coup in most of the country have become a rarity in the face of brutal repression, a small, defiant group in Kalay is nearing 500 days of continuous protests.
On May 25 the Kalay Strike Force gathered for the same reason they had for the last 472 days in a row: to protest against the 2021 military coup.

“Since we began protesting in February, the military has launched at least 35 crackdowns against us, using various forms of violence,” protest leader Ko Bike Pu* told Frontier.

In the weeks after the military’s seizure of power on February 1 last year, crowds of hundreds of thousands joined protests throughout the country, until the ruthless use of lethal force cleared them off the streets.
https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/500- ... ever-quit/

and the killings, bombings, execution's and resistance continue

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Reports that the #Myanmar junta will execute 4 men this morning, including Ko Jimmy and Phyo Zeya Thaw, are beyond appalling.

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“We are Getting Stronger to Complete the Revolution”: Karenni Resistance Leader
Armed resistance to the military regime in Kayah State, southeast Myanmar began in May last year in response to the lethal crackdowns on civilians by the junta. Along with resistance groups in Sagaing Region and Chin State, Karenni fighters pioneered the use of homemade weapons against the regime.

Despite being the smallest state in Myanmar, with a population of around 300,000, Kayah State is currently home to over a dozen resistance groups. Among them is the Karenni Nationalities Defense Force (KNDF), which has been fighting the junta for over a year.
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Myanmar Junta Killing, Detaining, Torturing and Displacing Children: UN
The Myanmar junta has deliberately killed hundreds of children as part of a strategy to inflict immense suffering on innocent civilians and subjugate the people of the country, a UN expert said on Tuesday.

At least 382 children have been killed or injured by armed groups since the coup and the Myanmar military bears the most responsibility for these deaths, according to a report by Tom Andrews, the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar.

Of the deaths and injuries of children, 59 percent occurred during targeted or indiscriminate attacks by the military, according to the report, which also found that at least 111 were killed or injured by landmines.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/my ... en-un.html

More than 5,000 civilians flee as Myanmar Junta Burns Villages in Sagaing
More than 5,000 civilians from Mawlaik Township, Sagaing Region, have fled their homes as Myanmar’s regime forces raided and burned down over 1,000 houses in four villages in the township within three days.

Between June 10 and 12 without being attacked an estimated 250 troops from Battalion 366 raided Yuwa, Magyi Tan, Mawku and Tatkone villages to the west of the Chindwin River, according to residents.

Two Magyi Tan villagers in their 20s, Ko Sithu and Ko Phyo, were detained and tortured to death by troops and pro-regime Pyu Saw Htee militia members on June 10, a rescue worker told The Irrawaddy on Tuesday.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/mo ... gaing.html
crimes against humanity go unanswered, ;-(
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UN expert releases new report documenting military junta's impact on Myanmar's children, urges immediate coordinated action to prevent “a lost generation”
“The junta’s relentless attacks on children underscore the generals’ depravity and willingness to inflict immense suffering on innocent victims in its attempt to subjugate the people of Myanmar,” said Tom Andrews, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar.

“The international community’s approach to the coup and the junta’s atrocities has failed. States must take immediate coordinated action to address an escalating political, economic and humanitarian crisis that is putting Myanmar’s children at risk of becoming a lost generation.”

The Special Rapporteur said it was clear from the evidence that the children of Myanmar were not only being caught in the crossfire of escalating attacks, but that they were often the targets of the violence.

“During my fact-finding for this report, I received information about children who were beaten, stabbed, burned with cigarettes, and subjected to mock executions, and who had their fingernails and teeth pulled out during lengthy interrogation sessions,” Andrews said.

“The junta’s attacks on children constitute crimes against humanity and war crimes.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases ... t-myanmars

full report can be downloaded here; https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/them ... generation
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why has the world forgotten about myanmar/

Not sure why they dont just come out and say,
"Little brown people in asia dont mean as much as white people in Europe"
Despite Myanmar’s continuing humanitarian crisis and democratic disintegration, the conflict has lost the attention of the international community, particularly in the West. While this may at first seem like another tragic tale of affluent and powerful nations refusing to step in and help restore justice in less developed countries, the true picture is much more complicated. Substantial intervention by the US and other Western nations is highly unlikely, given the lack of economic potential in Myanmar and the loss of faith in the nation’s democratic leadership. Moreover, intervention by Western powers may arguably be unwise due to Myanmar’s deep-rooted national military culture as well as China and Russia’s vested interests in Myanmar, both making the country a dangerous boat to rock.
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As such, the status quo of limited international intervention will likely remain. Western nations may continue to send hopes, prayers, and sanctions, but not much more. China and Russia will likely continue to support Myanmar’s military but fall short of dedicating their forces to the fight. But not all is lost for democracy in Myanmar. The Tatmadaw has promised to eventually return to democratic elections, a promise that does look admittedly questionable now but could be acted upon in the future. The opposition movement has also managed to put up an impressive fight against the Tatmadaw, with the military regularly losing battles to opposition forces. At the present moment, then, the military’s victory is not a foregone conclusion; but it does seem that Myanmar's future is in no one's hands, but those of its people.

https://hir.harvard.edu/why-has-the-wor ... t-myanmar/

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If Myanmar produced 20-40% of the world’s food, produced a bulk of the world’s rare minerals needs for solar panels, microprocessors, gas for neon signs, and oil and gas, then the world would care a lot.

The atrocities in Myanmar did not cause an 8% monthly food inflation (in the US), skyrocketing fuel prices, nor a shortage in cars to buy.

Has nothing to do with the world not caring about the ‘little brown people”. The world is a little busy right now dealing with it’s own problems.

These are just my opinions.
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newkidontheblock wrote: Tue Jun 28, 2022 7:25 pm If Myanmar produced 20-40% of the world’s food, produced a bulk of the world’s rare minerals needs for solar panels, microprocessors, gas for neon signs, and oil and gas, then the world would care a lot.

The atrocities in Myanmar did not cause an 8% monthly food inflation (in the US), skyrocketing fuel prices, nor a shortage in cars to buy.

Has nothing to do with the world not caring about the ‘little brown people”. The world is a little busy right now dealing with it’s own problems.

These are just my opinions.
WTF
I get it, its not cause their little brown people that the world doesn't care
its cause they dont have the goods the west needs>> :please:
good reason for not caring about humanity!!

NK u missed the boat
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