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He offered them at least the beginnings of an exit strategy
They chose execution of dissidents
Pretty difficult to find any good outcome with the tatmadaw
CCP support them ofc
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In Myanmar, We Pay With Our Lives for the Choices of World Leaders
On July 20-21, the Russia and Myanmar militaries co-chaired a counter-terrorism meeting of the ASEAN Defense Ministers’ Meeting-Plus (ADMM-Plus) in Moscow.

Given that both militaries have committed a series of serious international crimes under the pretext of combating “terrorism” without remorse – the Myanmar military with its ongoing terror campaign against its own citizens and Russia with its invasion of Ukraine – this prompted outcries from Myanmar civil society and activists. A total of 448 civil society organizations, including our organization Students for Free Burma (SFB), sent open letters urging the governments of the United States, Japan, and South Korea to boycott the meeting.

In a perfect world, our efforts would have been unnecessary. We should not have to alert world leaders to the obvious fact that Russia and Myanmar commit terrorism rather than counter it.
Yet, ASEAN has been the most disappointing. Despite being the region’s key multilateral organization, ASEAN has repeatedly failed to take serious actions to pressure the junta. Instead, the bloc has shielded them by impeding wider, stronger international actions and provided the generals with tacit support. ASEAN’s continued engagement with the military, such as allowing its participation in the bloc’s recent defense ministers’ meeting, has given the junta legitimacy and a global platform that it does not deserve.
https://thediplomat.com/2022/07/in-myan ... d-leaders/

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good read:
thailand really needs to act correctly but.......

Thailand’s Myanmar Policy Is Costing Communities on Both Sides of the Border
The Thai government appears increasingly complicit in the Myanmar junta’s deadly reign of terror.
Myanmar’s raging civil war recently spilled, albeit briefly, over the border to Thailand. On June 30, a Myanmar air force jet, identified as a Russian-made MiG-29, violated Thai airspace while on a bombing raid in eastern Myanmar. The jet’s incursion prompted the evacuation of homes and classrooms in the Phop Phra district of Thailand’s Tak province. Videos taken from Thai territory and shared on social media show the Myanmar jet strafing and bombing villages in Karen State, Myanmar, where deadly fighting rages between the junta forces and armies under the control of the ethnic Karen National Union and the anti-coup People’s Defense Forces. In response, the Thai air force scrambled two of its own fighter jets and Thailand’s embassy in Yangon reportedly conveyed a diplomatic warning to the junta.

In response to the incident, Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha was nonchalant, stating to reporters that the infringement of Thai sovereignty was “not a big deal.” This lackadaisical attitude is consistent with the ongoing Thai government approach of downplaying and obfuscating the scale of the atrocity crimes and humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Myanmar.

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The desperate situation for Myanmar civilians has been compounded by the action of the Thai authorities. Forced to live in the shadows, unable to attain legal status, and facing dwindling support and resources, Myanmar refugees in Thailand have reported extortion and arbitrary arrest and detention.

Refugees have told Fortify Rights that their greatest worry, however, is the prospect of being returned to the hands of the Myanmar junta – a regime that has recently vowed to execute two of its political opponents, resuming the use of the death penalty for the first time in more than 30 years
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full article;
https://thediplomat.com/2022/07/thailan ... he-border/

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Unfinished revolution from 08.08.88. Three + decades go by, but Myanmar people continue to fight the dictatorship.

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Civil Disobedience Movement
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It takes a remarkable courage and creativity to stage this kind of demonstration in Yangon, where one could get rammed by SAC thugs or shot by the murderous soldiers. Kudos to the protest leaders.

We hope int’l community sees and hears these voices.
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New report puts spotlight on Myanmar regime’s arms brokers
Only a handful of the companies helping the junta buy weapons are under sanctions, says rights group Justice for Myanmar

More than 100 companies—a third of them registered in Singapore—deserve closer scrutiny and stiffer sanctions for acting as arms brokers for Myanmar’s military, rights group Justice for Myanmar (JFM) said in a report released on Thursday.

According to the report, a total of 116 private companies have helped the country’s generals buy millions of dollars worth of weapons and other equipment, including 31 that have continued to do so since last year’s coup.

Most of the companies named in the report operate out of Myanmar. However, 38 are subsidiaries or associated companies of those businesses based in Singapore.
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https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/new-rep ... ms-brokers

People are still being killed , at what point will it be before the UN takes a action?

Almost 30 Civilians and Resistance Fighters Killed by Myanmar Junta in Sagaing
At least 29 civilians and resistance fighters were killed in Myanmar junta raids from August 1 to 8 in Tabayin, Myinmu and Monywa townships in Sagaing Region, according to local sources.

Eight die in Tabayin raid

A Myanmar military Mi-35 helicopter gunship fired on Kaing Kan Village, Tabayin Township around 10am on August 4, while two other helicopters airlifted junta troops to raid the village.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/al ... gaing.html

At least Eight Civilians Killed as Myanmar Junta Launches Airstrikes in Kachin and Kayah States
Almost the entire village of Sezin in Hpakant Township, Kachin State was burned down on Tuesday after being bombed and torched by military regime jets and junta troops.

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Several dozen villagers were reportedly killed and wounded in the attacks, which destroyed between 400 and 500 homes. However, the exact number of casualties is unknown, according to residents and Kachin media outlets.

But five villagers were confirmed killed by the junta airstrikes, a resident told The Irrawaddy on Wednesday.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/at ... tates.html

dying on both sides
More than 2,500 Myanmar junta troops and members of the pro-regime Border Guard Force (BGF) – equivalent to one division of the Myanmar military – have been killed since January of this year in clashes with ethnic Karen fighters in Southeast Myanmar’s Karen State.

The Karen National Union (KNU) said in its monthly report released on Tuesday that its armed wings, the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) and the Karen National Defense Organization (KNDO), and allied resistance forces including Cobra Column clashed with junta troops more than eight times a day in July.

There were 259 clashes in July, with 386 junta and Border Guard Force deaths and 280 wounded, according to the KNU. 12 resistance fighters were killed and 26 injured in the clashes. However, The Irrawaddy has been unable to verify casualty numbers independently.

The KNU estimated that there were 399 regime deaths in January, 311 in February, 429 in March, 356 in April, 303 in May, 410 in June and 386 in July, a total of 2,594 junta forces killed in just seven months.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/ov ... state.html

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Currently being held on death row ;-(
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"This is not the death penalty. This is murder in prison, as it is based on unjust laws + unsubstantiated cases and verdicts."
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Myanmar's condemned activists face 'murder in prison'
The families of 77 political activists sentenced to death by Myanmar’s military junta are living in fear that their loved ones will be executed without prior notice, following the hanging of four prominent prisoners of conscience on July 23.

In an act that prompted protests in Myanmar and condemnation abroad, the 18-month-old junta put to death veteran democracy activist Ko Jimmy and former opposition lawmaker Phyo Zeya Thaw, as well as activists Hla Myo Aung and Aung Thura Zaw. Their families learned of their deaths only after the fact.

The hangings were the first judicial executions in more than three decades. Between Myanmar’s abortive 1988 democratic uprising and the military coup of Feb. 1, 2021, death sentences have been ordered, but no judicial executions were carried out.

Families of Myanmar prisoners on death row say their loved ones were arrested by the junta and sentenced to death by a closed-door military court without the opportunity to defend themselves. While six of the 83 people put on death row since the coup have had their sentences to commuted to life in prison, 77 others still face execution.

"This is not the death penalty. This is murder in prison, as it is based on unjust laws and unsubstantiated cases and verdicts," said Aung Myo Min, human rights minister for Myanmar’s shadow National Unity Government.
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/special/death-row/
the slaughter continues>
Hundreds of junta troops close in on Karenni State’s Demoso
The military may be attempting to gain ‘complete control’ over the township, members of resistance forces say
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The junta has sent an estimated 500 soldiers towards Demoso Township in recent weeks from military bases in southern Shan State and the Karenni (Kayah) State capital of Loikaw, members of local resistance groups said.

Some 300 soldiers from Moebye, located 15 miles northwest of Demoso on the Shan-Karenni border, and 200 from Loikaw—some 10 miles north—began arriving in the township in early August, according to the Karenni Nationalities Defence Force (KNDF) and the township’s People’s Defence Force (PDF) chapter.

The column from Moebye set up stations in villages north of Demoso town, along the road which connects the two locations. At the time of reporting, junta posts had been seen in the communities of Nan Mei Khon, Thae Tsu Le, Pu Fa and Kone Thar, the KNDF’s spokesperson said.
https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/hundred ... tes-demoso

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Juts a few headlines: the murders', imprisonments, bombings go on, while the world says
"We, just dont give a fuck"

Former UK Ambassador to Myanmar and Husband Given One-Year Sentences,
Myanmar’s military regime has handed one-year prison sentences to Britain’s former ambassador to Myanmar, Vicky Bowman, and her husband, Ko Htein Lin, a renowned artist and former political prisoner, for breaching the Immigration Act.

A court in Yangon’s Insein Prison held a summary hearing for the couple on Monday and made the verdict on Friday, according to prison sources.

They were arrested on August 24 at their Yangon home and taken to Insein but later transferred to police custody.

The regime charged Bowmen for “staying in a family home in Kalaw Township, Shan State, rather than living at the Yangon address where she has originally registered with the authorities” while her husband failed to report his wife’s stay in Shan State.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/fo ... ences.html

Junta Court Sentences Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi to Another Three Years in Prison
A military regime-controlled court in Myanmar has sentenced the country’s detained elected leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to three more years’ imprisonment for alleged fraud in the 2020 election.

Friday’s ruling means the 77-year-old has now been jailed for a total of 20 years; the regime court has already sentenced her to 17 years on other charges.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/ju ... rison.html

Junta troops kill 12, burn hundreds of homes in 11 days of raids in Sagaing
Junta troops in Myanmar’s Sagaing region have killed at least 12 civilians and burned down more than 500 houses in 11 days since entering the region’s northern townships of Kawlin, Kanbalu and Kyunhla, villagers and local defense groups said Friday.

Sources in the area told RFA Burmese that the military had set nearly 50 villages alight since Aug. 22, forcing more than 20,000 residents from 80 villages in the area to flee their homes for safety.
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanma ... 43749.html

As country burns, it’s back to business as usual for Myanmar’s military elite
The families of top generals have wasted no time enriching themselves, even as poverty deepens for most
In a sign that the regime that is now waging war on the country’s civilian population intends to continue the military’s long-standing practice of profiting from its rule, the documents show that companies linked to Lt-Gen Aung Lin Dwe and Lt-Gen Moe Myint Tun—both members of the junta that seized power in February 2021—have been awarded a number of lucrative contracts over the past year
https://www.myanmar-now.org/en/news/as- ... tary-elite
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Accounts of brazen robberies, thefts & other crimes happening in broad daylight increasingly being reported in #Myanmar. Country's experiencing 20 months into #coup. Almost 2 million people or about 3% of Myanmar's 54 million population said to be jobless
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WTF is wrong with Australia??
Australian government reveals $2.5 million spend at Myanmar military-linked hotels in bloody aftermath of coup
The Australian government has spent more than $2.5 million in taxpayer funds on luxury accommodation linked to Myanmar's military junta since it overthrew the country's democratically elected government in a coup last year.
Australia has repeatedly condemned the actions of the junta, which has killed more than 2,273 people and arrested more than 15,500 since the power grab on February 1 last year, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners.

But in the past 18 months, the government has spent more than $1.5 million on staff accommodation at Shangri-La residences in Yangon, as well as $862,000 at Lotte Hotel,
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-15/ ... /101433920

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The country’s economic predicament is inseparable from its political crisis. To help resolve it, foreign nations must go beyond the old playbook of symbolic sanctions and empty statements.
Shuttered petrol stations, medicine shortages and long queues to buy subsidised cooking oil. Welcome to Min Aung Hlaing’s Myanmar – a country that, in the junta chief’s mind, could reach middle-income status within five years and be on par with Singapore in 10.

Despite these delusions, which Min Aung Hlaing aired in a recent meeting of the State Administration Council, he appears to grasp that all is not well with the nation’s finances. Much of his economic policy has consisted of panic moves, including the forcible conversion of foreign currency in bank accounts and the throttling of even essential imports such as medicine and cooking oil. Through a pliant Central Bank and new committees stacked with senior military officials, the regime has intervened in the economy to a level not seen in Myanmar for more than a decade.
......Tragically for the tens of millions of people affected by the regime’s decisions, the situation is unlikely to improve. The economic crisis is merely a symptom of the real problem that ails Myanmar: the illegitimate junta and its determination to crush all resistance to perpetual military rule. It may recognise the challenges in the economy, but stubbornly refuses to see that the only solution involves it giving up power.
https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/an-i ... n-economy/

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I reported on the military’s abuses, and then I became a victim, In a rare first-hand account, Frontier journalist Ye Mon recounts being beaten and sexually abused by regime soldiers in December 2021 after being detained at Yangon International Airport.
I couldn’t see the soldiers through my blindfold, but their words were terrifying enough.

“If they refused to answer our questions, we raped them – women and men – and then killed them.”

Despite the casual delivery, it was clear that the soldiers were threatening me. I had read numerous reports about soldiers sexually assaulting people in detention but I never imagined it would happen to me.
full story, worth the read:
https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/i-re ... -a-victim/
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