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nice to know someone is reading.
i am currently on my mobile internet as the electric company fried all the wires in kamala when they put in new poles so all wires need be replaced.

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protests are ongoing and the junta is not even trying too abide by the decisions made in Indonesia last week


At least seven people have been reported killed in Myanmar when the junta’s security forces opened fire on some of the biggest protests against military rule in days to mark what organisers called "the global Myanmar spring revolution
. Hsipaw 1, Wetlet 2, Mandalay 2, Nawnghkio 1, Hpaknat 1

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As we celebrate #WorldPressFreedomDay on May 3, journalists worldwide face significant risks for their reporting. In Burma, the military regime has imprisoned dozens of journalists since seizing power & banned certain words, including “coup” and “regime.”

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Thousands of anti-coup protesters marched in Myanmar on Sunday, declaring a “spring revolution” with the country in its fourth month under a military regime.
Demonstrations kicked off early in commercial hub Yangon as activists called for a show of force. Youths gathered on a street corner before marching swiftly down the streets in a flash mob – dispersing soon after to avoid clashing with authorities.

“To bring down the military dictatorship is our cause!” they chanted, waving a three-finger salute of resistance.

Similar protests for “Global Myanmar Spring Revolution Day” were held in towns across Myanmar, alongside demonstrations in cities overseas.

Local media reported that the junta’s security forces were chasing protesters down and arresting them.

“They are arresting every young person they see,” a source in Yangon told AFP, adding that he was hiding at the time
While violence continues in the cities, clashes have ramped up in northern Kayin State between the Karen National Union and the military, which has responded to the ethnic armed group’s seizure of several Tatmadaw bases with serious artillery power and air strikes in areas next to the Thai border.

Thai authorities announced that the Myanmar military fired rockets from the air to a KNU base on Saturday, and grenade launchers and sporadic gunfire could be heard throughout the day from Thailand’s bordering Mae Hong Son province.

A letter was sent last week to Myanmar counterparts calling for the military to “increase caution on air strikes to avoid it falling into Thai territories”, said Sunday’s statement from Mae Hong Son province.

“[This] could cause danger to Thais living on the border and affect the good relationship,” it said.

So far, more than 2,300 Myanmar nationals have crossed over for refuge.
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in the David vs Goliath fight
David strikes back


Kachin Independence Army(KIA) shot down a helicopter(Mi-35M) of military juntas in Bhamo district, Kachin State. Source: Bhamo Platform media group

3 months on and the protestors are still at it
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‘People in Myanmar have been totally brainwashed’: KNU official welcomes new solidarity
The Karen National Union’s foreign affairs chief says only since the Tatmadaw’s brutal crackdowns on protesters are the majority of people changing their views about armed groups, and seeing them as partners and allies instead of “rebels”.
By FRONTIER

After a decade of relative peace, war is again erupting Myanmar’s eastern borderlands. Since the February 1 coup d’etat, hundreds of clashes have been reported between the Tatmadaw and the Karen National Union along the border with Thailand, leaving tens of thousands displaced. Although in some areas the fighting pre-dates the February 1 coup, the KNU has also been among the most vocal in criticising the military takeover, and has sheltered dissidents and provided combat training to young protesters. Frontier spoke to Padoh Saw Taw Nee, who heads the KNU’s Foreign Affairs Department, about these issues as well as the group’s overall view on the current crisis and the potential timeline for a proposed federal army.
https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/peop ... olidarity/


Protests in Mandalay continue:
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Lot's of clashes between the military and the chin defense fighters
the Chin state is located on the Eastern edge of Burma bordering India and the poorest province in Burma. Its a fantastic area to travel in and around.
some shots from my motorcycle trip thru there>

https://phuket.zenfolio.com/p779783429

Eight regime soldiers killed in clashes in Hakha, say Chin resistance fighters
The Chinland Defense Force said none of its fighters were killed in the clashes on Sunday and Monday
Resistance fighters in Chin State’s capital of Hakha say they have killed eight of the coup regime’s soldiers in clashes that started on Sunday.

The Chin land Defense Force (CDF), a group formed in the wake of the coup to fight back on behalf of civilians being attacked by the military, said it killed four soldiers on Sunday night and four more on Monday night.

The group formed in early April with ethnically Chin people from nine townships in Chin State as well as from areas outside the state.
https://www.myanmar-now.org/en/news/eig ... e-fighters

another soldier was killed and one wounded the next day as well

UN Security Council: Adopt Global Arms Embargo on Myanmar
More Than 200 Groups Worldwide Call for a UN Sanctions Resolution
(New York) – The United Nations Security Council should immediately impose a global arms embargo on Myanmar, Human Rights Watch and over 200 other nongovernmental organizations from around the world said today in a public appeal to council members. The Security Council should act swiftly to pressure the junta to stop violating the human rights of people protesting the February 1, 2021, coup and military rule.

“The UN Security Council’s failure to even discuss an arms embargo against the junta is an appalling abdication of its responsibilities toward the people of Myanmar,” said Louis Charbonneau, UN director at Human Rights Watch. “The council’s occasional statements of concern in the face of the military’s violent repression of largely peaceful protesters is the diplomatic equivalent of shrugging their shoulders and walking away.”
https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/05/05/un- ... go-myanmar
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sad stats and sadder news:


By THE IRRAWADDY 4 May 2021
Monday marked three months since the coup in Myanmar. Despite the regime’s lethal crackdowns, democracy supporters in every corner of the country still manage to take to the streets daily to protest against military rule.

In a little over 90 days, military leaders have overseen the killing of more than 760 civilians including more than 50 children during their forces’ brutal crackdowns on peaceful anti-coup protesters in the country. The regime has also arrested nearly 4,900 people, including more than 250 civilian leaders and politicians. Almost all of those 250 are NLD government leaders, ministers, appointed ministers and elected members of parliament. The junta has also issued arrest warrants for more than 1,400 others, particularly targeting activists, democracy supporters, journalists and civil servants who are refusing to work under military rule.

Moreover, in the three months since they grabbed power, the coup leaders have pushed what was one of the region’s fastest-growing economies to the brink of collapse, forcing much of the population back into poverty. The World Bank’s latest forecast reveals that Myanmar’s economy is in dire jeopardy, projected to contract by 10 percent this year as a result of the military takeover.

Due to the effects of the coup, up to 3.4 million people in Myanmar could go hungry this year, the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) warned in late April. The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has forecast that the combined impact of military rule and the COVID-19 pandemic could force nearly half of Myanmar’s population of 54 million into poverty by 2022.

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from Frontier news


Violent clashes continue
The junta should be especially wary of any new violence in Rakhine, given it already has its hands full with major clashes in Kayin and Kachin states, and armed civilian uprisings in Chin State, and Sagaing and Magway regions.

In Kachin, the Kachin Independence Army shot down a Tatmadaw helicopter in Momauk Township on Tuesday, killing a captain, a major and a sergeant. Civilians took up arms in remote western Magway Region this week, the first such incident we've heard from that region so far, reportedly killing four soldiers in Tilin Township. Hakha Township in Chin State also saw fresh clashes, with locals reportedly killing nine Tatmadaw troops. In Mandalay's Sintgaing Township, an armed band of 20 reportedly attacked a police outpost guarding a Chinese oil and gas pipeline, killing three of the six police officers stationed there. Finally, major clashes broke out between the Tatmadaw and the allied Ta’ang National Liberation Army and Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army in northern Shan State's Kutkai Township on Tuesday and Wednesday, in perhaps the fiercest fighting in Shan State since the coup.

That might be of particular concern for the Tatmadaw, given that Shan State has seen limited violence since the military takeover, and presumably the military wants to keep the violence contained as it deals with growing threats in Kachin and Kayin states. It could also put more pressure on the AA to take a stronger stance against the junta, given that it is closely aligned with the TNLA and MNDAA.

The parallel National Unity Government announced the creation of a People's Defence Force, which is definitely something to watch, but it's unclear how much the government-in-exile can actually influence fighting on the ground for now.


In a hearing at the US House of Representatives, Myanmar's ambassador to the UN in New York, who has continued representing the civilian government, urged the US to do more to pressure the junta. "We need the United States to take a decisive leadership role in helping resolve the Myanmar crisis," he said, calling for sanctions against military-owned Myawady Bank and state-owned Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise, the latter being the junta’s greatest foreign currency earner in the formal economy. His appeal for sanctions against MOGE echoes those of human rights organisations and some influential US senators.
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the fighting, protesting, murder, arrests
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In Kayah state

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If Myanmar’s security landscape was devilishly complicated before the February coup d’etat, the growing national-level armed resistance to the military-formed State Administration Council (SAC) junta has rendered it almost incomprehensible.
In recent weeks, veteran ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) such as the Karen National Union (KNU) and Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) have ramped up attacks on the military, or Tatmadaw. Peasant revolts using flintlock rifles and muskets in the hills of Chin state have likewise seen locally raised defense forces inflict major casualties on army units.

In Kayah and Kayin states, EAOs have trained and worked with locally raised defense forces, while in western Sagaing Region such forces have attacked Tatmadaw and police units with lethal effect. In main cities such as Yangon, bombings and shootings targeting security forces have surged in recent weeks, as have vigilante assassinations of suspected security services’ informants.
On May 5, the National Unity Government (NUG), a parallel government formed to overthrow the SAC, formed the People’s Defense Force (PDF) citing “the responsibility to end the civil war of over 70 years, implement effective security sector reforms and establish federal democratic armed forces by controlling and ending the violent actions, military aggression and hostilities of military council.”

The NUG announced on June 7 that it has designated the Myanmar military and its affiliated organizations as “terrorist organizations.” Yet a series of working documents on the NUG-PDF’s framework reviewed by Asia Times underlines the major challenges the PDF will face in mobilization and combat effectiveness against the Tatmadaw.
full story:
https://asiatimes.com/2021/06/myanmar-p ... e-OpD4QOK8

Myanmar’s shadow civilian National Unity Government has called on citizens to report atrocities committed by the military regime, which it has declared a terrorist organization.

The NUG designated the military and its affiliated organizations as terrorist groups on Monday for perpetrating acts of terrorism towards innocent civilians, creating public fear for political motives to control the country.

Since the Feb. 1 coup, more than 800 civilians, including large numbers of children, have been killed and more than 5,000 people detained with many tortured and sexually abused, the NUG said.

At least 20 detainees have been tortured to death by the regime, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/my ... tions.html

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excellent read;

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Myanmar is at a point of no return. The army’s February coup, meant to surgically shift power within the existing constitutional framework, has instead unleashed a revolutionary energy that will be nearly impossible to contain.
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As the stalemate continues, the economy will crumble, extreme poverty will skyrocket, the health-care system will collapse, and armed violence will intensify, sending waves of refugees into neighboring China, India, and Thailand. Myanmar will become a failed state, and new forces will appear to take advantage of that failure: to grow the country’s multibillion-dollar-a-year methamphetamine business, to cut down the forests that are home to some of the world’s most precious zones of biodiversity, and to expand wildlife-trafficking networks, including the very ones possibly responsible for the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in neighboring China. The pandemic itself will fester unabated.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles ... revolution
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New Great Game rages in post-coup Myanmar
and the protesting, fighting, murders goes on
while the world ignores the situation
China has declared its support for Senior General Min Aung Hlaing’s military-coup government in Myanmar. The United States and the European Union have implemented sanctions and declared their support for the people’s power movement agitating against the dictatorship.

India and Japan are keeping quiet because they don’t want to push Myanmar further back into the clutches of China. Thailand is too dependent on natural gas imports from Myanmar to dare to condemn or even criticize the coup.

The rest of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, has once again demonstrated that it is wholly incapable of resolving regional crises.
Myanmar is the only neighboring country that provides China with direct access to the Indian Ocean. That allows Chinese shipments of fuel and other key imports to bypass the disputed waters of the South China Sea and the Malacca Strait chokepoint that Beijing fears could be blocked in any conflict scenario with the US.
https://asiatimes.com/2021/06/new-great ... d7ff190aa4


hmmmm, one reason why China want the naval base in Cambodia, then they have access to 2 seas... :beer3:

Meanwhile Aung Sans trail goes on
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Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi went on trial on Monday, appearing unwell as the first witnesses took the stand in cases against her of illegally possessing walkie-talkie radios and breaking coronavirus protocols, her lawyer said.

Suu Kyi, 75, faces a slew of charges since being overthrown by the army in a Feb. 1 coup that cut short a decade of tentative democratic reforms and has plunged the Southeast Asian country into chaos
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate faced three cases on Monday at the specially built court in the capital Naypyidaw, where she had already appeared at preliminary hearings.

Two of Monday's cases were linked to the possession of the radios and one under the Natural Disaster Management Law for breaching coronavirus regulations while campaigning for the election she won last November.

She also faces charges of incitement - with hearings set for Tuesday - and more serious charges of violating the Official Secrets Act and under the Anti-Corruption Law.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-paci ... 021-06-14/
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