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they really have no shame; Armed forces day and military leaders from China , Russia, India, Thailand, Laos in attendance


while on the streets their citizens are being murdered,,

even funerals aren't safe ;-(
Myanmar security forces opened fire Sunday on a crowd attending the funeral of student who was killed on the bloodiest day yet of a crackdown on protests against last month’s coup, local media reported.

The escalating violence — which took the lives of at least 114 people Saturday, including several children — has prompted a U.N. human rights expert to accuse the junta of committing “mass murder” and to criticize the international community for not doing enough to stop it.

The Security Council is likely to hold closed consultations on the escalating situation in Myanmar, U.N. diplomats said Sunday, speaking on condition of anonymity ahead of an official announcement. The council has condemned the violence and called for a restoration of democracy, but has not yet considered possible sanctions against the military, which would require support or an abstention by Myanmar’s neighbor and friend China.

“In less than two months, at least 35 children have allegedly been killed, countless others seriously injured and almost 1,000 children and young people reported arbitrarily detained by security forces across the country” she said, condemning the indiscriminate killings and demanding that those responsible be held accountable.
https://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/int ... -violence/
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As 28 of March, 459 have been killed by this junta since the coup. 2559 are currently detained, sentenced, custody, etc. 119 have been issued arrest warrants
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^

Bows and arrows, badass. Probably get ya shot or "arbitrarily" detained though
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I can already predict how two permanent members of the UN security council, Russia and China, will vote given their stake in the country.

Russia is the main arms supplier to the Burmese military. Those armoured vehicles you see crushing the protests were almost certainly supplied by Russia. Since Russia does not share a border with Burma nor will it be affected by any refugees should a full scale civil war break out, like the extremely bloody civil war (1948-1958) that followed independence, Russia is in it as simply a supplier of goods. It will just sit back and veto any vote in the UN that undermines its business dealings. And if anyone blames them they'll brush it off and carry on loading the next shipment.

And China, whose ties are a little closer to home and a little more complex. There's the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor which is a part of the BRI and comes with the same undisclosed agreements and caveats. As it standard procedure for any BRI project China will have loaned Burma money to pay for some major infrastructure, Burma will then have a Chinese company DO the work, this Chinese company will bring in Chinese workers and Chinese materials and the Chinese will run the project once it is finished.
And all those Chinese construction workers and staff are all sitting there with targets on their backs as the ire of the people of Burma turns on them as they are seen to be a part of the problem and of benefit only to the military elite who pocketed all the back handers from the Chinese. China will have to take these civilians into consideration as they ponder their next move.

Burma is headed for another full on bloody civil war. If that happens and China pulls a "Crimea" move like the Russians...

"oh.. no we're not invading.. we're just going to make sure our civilians over there are ok"

who knows what might happen.
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Jerry Atrick wrote: Mon Mar 29, 2021 2:26 pm ^

Bows and arrows, badass. Probably get ya shot or "arbitrarily" detained though
I know the English longbow sorted those frenchies out back at Agincourt... but not sure how effective they might be against bullet proof body armour.


edited to add: yeah yeah .. the muddy battlefield helped but those longbows made short work of the french knight's armor.
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Bad news; shooting and arresting journalist performing their job.
In Myitkyina, Kachin, the coup regime’s armed forces shot 2 journalists from Kachinwaves and the 74 Media with rubber bullets and arrested them while they were covering a violent crackdown on anti-military protesters, local media said. Photo-the 74 media

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About 20,000 people, including monks, took part in an anti-military dictatorship rally in Tangse, Sagaing,( northwestern area)

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Protesters take part in a demonstration against the military coup in Monywa, Sagaing region of Myanmar, on Monday. (AFP PHOTO / FACEBOOK / ANONYMOUS SOURCE"
Myanmar security forces killed a man in the main city of Yangon on Monday, media reported, as activists called on ethnic minority forces in the diverse nation to back their campaign against military rule.

After the bloodiest day since the Feb 1 military coup with 114 deaths on Saturday, thousands of people took to the streets in numerous towns again on Monday, determined to show their opposition to the relapse into military rule after a decade of democratic reform.

A man was killed and several were wounded when security forces fired in a Yangon neighbourhood, media and a witness said.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2091551

A male passenger was killed in Myingyan yesterday evening (Mar 28) when a passenger van was shot at. The van was traveling from Mandalay to Pakokku and a passenger in the front seat was shot dead. The driver was shot in the arm as well.

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A silent strike today (Mar 29) in Kyaukme, northern Shan State, to mourn and protest the shooting death of innocent children by the coup regime.
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Not sure how long this will go on but its a very sad situation the locals are currently in, there are many well equipped small armies in Burma, but not sure they are ready to take on the Tatmadaw in an all out fight/civil war
losses would be enormous.

Although many seem to think China is behind the coup and fully backs it, this is not necessarily true, Aung San an the NLD had very good relations with china.
China looks like a winner from the coup, as the one superpower willing to engage with the new regime and keep supplying it with weapons and investment.

However, it is no secret that China was more comfortable dealing with the National League for Democracy (NLD) government, under which relations had been getting warmer, than with an unpredictable military regime which has a deep historical mistrust of its larger neighbour's influence, especially over some armed insurgent groups on their common border.

Yet the widespread belief in Myanmar that China is backing the junta is feeding growing anti-Chinese sentiment among the millions now protesting against the coup - so much so that Chinese officials have been forced to break their customary silence and come out to deny rumours that China is helping the military build an internet firewall, or bringing in special forces to help crush the protests.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56192105
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How can you tell when China is lying?


The first clue is when they start to speak.

China doesn't care who runs a country.. or how they run it. As long as they are in debt to China. Who really believes China will sit back, like Russia is doing from a safe distance, and watch. China has a vested interest in a return to stability and a fast return at that. They could quite easily be "invited" in to assist in peace keeping efforts (lol) to protect their interests and citizens on the ground.

When they do the world will sit back and the UN and the global media will thank China for restoring law and order to Burma.
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guess Thailand has had enough refugees.

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Thai military forced over 2000 Karen refugees, who crossed the Salween River to take refuge on the land of Thailand in order to avoid potential Burma Military air strike attack, to go back to their land, the killing zone where the Burma Military's jets are bombing. The air strike attack by the Burma Military already happened in some other areas of the Salween Peace Park, Mutraw District, Karen State. They are still crossing the river as there are only few boats.
BUT the Thai army denies this took place
CHIANG MAI: About 2,000 refugees fleeing Myanmar to Thailand had been pushed back despite ongoing aerial bombardment, two activist groups said on Monday, but Thai authorities said the army was taking care of them on the border.

Video showed villagers carrying their belongings boarding boats under the watch of Thai officials. Authorities blocked Reuters reporters from accessing the area.

Thousands fled Myanmar over the weekend after fighter jets attacked villages near the border held by an ethnic armed group that had attacked a military post in the wake of a Feb 1 coup by Myanmar's army.

"There's still fighter jets over the area," Mark Farmaner, head of Burma Campaign UK, told Reuters.
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Thichai Jindaluang, governor of Thailand's Mae Hong Son province, told reporters the refugees were not being pushed back. They were in a safe place on the fringes of the border in Mae Sariang and Sop Moei districts, state media reported.

A Thai provincial official from Mae Hong Son who declined to be named said the group was "in Thai territory by the Salween River but they haven’t come further. It’s under army management".
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2091583

Thailand preparing for possible refugee exodus from Myanmar
Reuters MARCH 29, 20211:03 PM
Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Monday his government is preparing for a potential flood of refugees from neighbouring Myanmar.

“We don’t want to have an exodus into our territory, but we will observe human rights, too,” Prayuth told reporters when asked about a weekend of violence in Myanmar during anti-coup demonstrations. “How many refugees are expected? We have prepared an area, but how many - we are not talking about that.”
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this is why things will only go straight to hell if there is a civil war

Each color on the map is a separate indigenous army.

Each is bound by its own web of allies and rivals, its own history and language. Its own means of acquiring money/weapons/ammo. Many w/ semi-discreet links to China, Thailand, the US or India.

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Things along the border will also get a lot worse if the refuges are forced back and the junta bombs them again
MAE SAKOEP, Thailand (AP) — Thai soldiers began sending back some of the thousands of people who have fled a series of airstrikes by the military in neighboring Myanmar, people familiar with the matter said Monday. But Thai officials denied that as the insecurity on the border added a new dimension to an already volatile crisis set off by a coup in Myanmar.

The weekend strikes, which sent ethnic Karen people seeking safety in Thailand, represented another escalation in the violent crackdown by Myanmar’s junta on protests of its Feb. 1 takeover. On Saturday, more than 100 people were killed in and around demonstrations throughout the country — the bloodiest single day since the takeover.

The violence by the Myanmar military — both on the border and in cities around the country — raised the question of whether the international community would respond more forcefully than it has thus far to a coup that ousted the government led by Aung San Suu Kyi and reversed years of progress toward democracy.
https://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/cri ... g-myanmar/
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The junta is stepping up their game:
this is all going to land at Thailand's doorstep ( again)
MAE SAM LAEP, Thailand (AP) — The military launched more airstrikes Tuesday in eastern Myanmar after earlier attacks forced thousands of ethnic Karen to flee into Thailand and further escalating violence two months after the junta seized power.

Thailand’s prime minister said the villagers who fled the weekend airstrikes returned home of their own accord, denying that his country’s security forces had forced them back.

But the situation in eastern Myanmar appeared to be getting more, not less, dangerous.

The Karen National Union, the main political body representing the Karen minority, said the airstrikes were the latest case of Myanmar’s military breaking a cease-fire agreement and it would have to respond.
The KNU has been fighting for greater autonomy for the Karen people. It issued a statement from one of its armed units saying “military ground troops are advancing into our territories from all fronts” and vowing to respond.

“We have no other options left but to confront these serious threats posed by the illegitimate military junta’s army in order to defend our territory, our Karen peoples, and their self-determination rights,” said the statement, issued in the name of the KNU office for the district that was first attacked on Saturday.

Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, speaking before the latest air attacks, said his country is ready to shelter anyone who is escaping fighting, as Thailand has done many times for decades. His comments came a day after humanitarian groups said Thailand has been sending back some of the thousands of people who fled.
https://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/int ... s-in-east/


At least 521 civilians have been killed in two months of protests against the Feb. 1 coup, 141 of them on Saturday, the bloodiest day of the unrest, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP).

The advocacy group said a further eight people died on Tuesday, when thousands came out to march in several towns, according to media and photos on social media.

There were also new candle-lit protests overnight in towns across Myanmar in defiance of a curfew and at least one dawn march on Wednesday by demonstrators, media reports said.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myan ... SKBN2BN0BB


https://www.bangkokpost.com/vdo/world/2 ... bt9jTq8_ng
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