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The junta is invading villages and burning them, more than 100,000 have left their homes cause of the military invasion.


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Myanmar militia group halts attacks on troops; Suu Kyi ‘confident’ in court
June 15 (Reuters) - A militia group in Myanmar’s conflict-torn Kayah State announced a halt to attacks on military targets on Tuesday, after appeals from local communities to cease fighting that had damaged homes and displaced more than 100,000 people.

The Karenni National Defence Force (KNDF), one of the largest of several civilian militias formed in recent weeks to oppose a Feb. 1 military coup, said it had temporarily suspended offensives but remained opposed to the military takeover.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-paci ... 021-06-15/
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bad news for the poor an most vulnerable in Burma;

Myanmar: Time running out for NGOs to avoid humanitarian catastrophe
Global aid organizations are warning of a looming humanitarian catastrophe in Myanmar. But many NGOs' hands are tied, with their activities, funding and legal status hampered by the country's political power struggle.
Myanmar has been in a downward spiral since the military overthrew the country's democratically elected government in a coup on February 1. The economy has been battered and millions of people are falling into poverty.

In Myanmar's ethnic minority states, conflict between the military, known as the Tatmadaw, and armed rebel groups is quickly creating a refugee crisis. In Myanmar's east alone, the UN estimates that about 100,000 people have fled their homes.

In April 2021, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said in a report that nearly half of Myanmar's population is acutely threatened by poverty due to the economic impact of the coup and the coronavirus pandemic.


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Aid organizations are also affected by the deteriorating security situation in Myanmar, along with a major reduction in banking services that makes it hard to pay employees.

The larger problem, NGOs say, is the overall political situation in Myanmar, which is hampering development aid and humanitarian work.

NGO work depends on trust and cooperation between governments of the affected countries, NGOs and donors. Money for NGO work comes from governments in donor countries and government-affiliated organizations, such as the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ), which often cooperate with local partners.
https://www.dw.com/en/myanmar-ngos-huma ... SKLLTvyB-w
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1,000,000 people in need

337,000 internally displaced people


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https://reliefweb.int/report/myanmar/my ... under-2021
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shameful

Myanmar military junta arrests family, friends of protesters
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The district chief called me and said that I should turn myself in or they wouldn’t release my mother,” said the student. Hoping her detention would be short because she was innocent, he did not yield. Days later, she was released. Authorities never issued a formal explanation for her detention.
The Globe and Mail is not identifying the student and three other protesters and their family members interviewed for this story in order to ensure their safety.

The student’s mother is among at least 85 “hostages” taken by Myanmar’s security forces since the coup, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma), a human-rights organization that has been documenting arrests and rights abuses in the country. Family members and friends have been arbitrarily detained in place of activists, journalists, striking public servants, and others wanted for arrest, apparently to coerce them into surrendering to authorities and to instill widespread fear. The hostages include the wife and 20-day-old baby of a protest leader in Mon State and the 90-year-old grandmother of an activist in Yangon, whose mother was beaten and sentenced to three years for sedition. Some hostages have been released, but dozens remain in detention.

They are among more than 6,200 people arrested since the coup, of whom more than 5,000 are still in custody, according to the AAPP.
https://knowafricanow.com/myanmar-milit ... rotesters/

Junta Chief Says He’s ‘Trying to Bring Honesty Back to Myanmar Politics’ LOL :beer3:
In his latest attempt to justify the Myanmar military’s internationally condemned takeover, coup leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing said in Russia on Wednesday that his regime was simply trying to bring honesty back to democracy in the country, repeating his claim that the previous government won last year’s election by rigging the vote.

In a more than 13-minute-long speech on “The Asia Pacific Region in the Context of Global Politics” at an international security conference in Moscow, Min Aung Hlaing said the ousted National League for Democracy (NLD) government led by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi “made a mockery of democracy” by committing electoral fraud, referring to the NLD’s landslide victory in November’s election.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/ju ... itics.html

History belongs to the victors:
Myanmar Junta Propaganda Books Hope to Rewrite History

By THE IRRAWADDY 24 June 2021
Some two months after the military takeover in February, the junta-controlled Ministry of Information started publishing books that denounced the anti-regime movement and praised the junta’s State Administrative Council.

Since the coup by late military dictator General Ne Win in 1962, all the information ministers, including the current minister U Chit Naing, have been ex-military officers, except under the National League for Democracy (NLD) government when the minister was U Pe Myint, a writer.

Therefore, support for military rule has been complete and ministers have viewed calls for democracy as rebellion.

The junta-controlled ministry has already published three books of coup leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing’s speeches. The books are a collection of the military chief’s public addresses, speeches at the meetings with regime staff and military personnel and on national days to ethnic minorities in Myanmar’s states.

The books do not mention the junta’s killing of over 800 civilians who opposed military rule and the upheaval caused by the coup. Instead, they repeatedly justify the coup, claiming the military had to take over because the NLD rigged the 2020
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people still being killed/murdered, people still being arrested, people still protesting and the world turns its head away
EXCEPT Russia

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A recent visit to the Russian capital by Myanmar’s Senior General Min Aung Hlaing has caught the attention of analysts and observers and raised questions over Moscow’s motives for forging ever-closer relations with the Tatmadaw, which has been shunned and sanctioned by the West following its seizure of power in a February coup.
It is also important for Moscow to set an example here as it strives to disrupt Western efforts to promote democracy in Asia and elsewhere.

For the Myanmar military, which has been condemned by most of the democratic world for its coup and subsequent brutality against protesters, it is desperately looking for partners and recognition and Russia fits the bill.

Not even China, Myanmar's old ally, is willing to offer as much open political and diplomatic support as Russia. Moscow is looking for a new, trustworthy ally in the region that can help reestablish the influence lost after the Soviet Union’s demise.
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The flow of Russian (and, of course, Chinese) weapons to Myanmar has turned its armed forces into one of the most numerous and best-equipped in the region. And even if its adversaries have been domestic ethnic and political rebels, the Myanmar military also has a long history of actually fighting.

Moreover, Myanmar is now ruled by a military junta with little or no civilian input. There is no other country in the region, not even Thailand, where the military has such a strong position in governance and policy-making. Anyone including businessmen, diplomats, UN personnel and other outsiders who want to deal with the country has to deal with the generals first. There are at present no other players.
https://mailchi.mp/09895eaeea49/myanmar ... _hVDu-GBH0
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Rising cry for civil war in Myanmar as things go from bad to worse

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Shadow National Unity Government says it's readying for all-out war against coup regime but its battlefield prospects are uncertain
As Myanmar’s crisis deepens amid a spiraling Covid outbreak, collapsing economy and repressive military coup, rising anger and insecurity are galvanizing calls for the shadow National Unity Government (NUG) to launch a nationwide armed uprising against the coup regime.

The NUG, comprised of activists, ethnic minorities and politicians from Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party which was ousted from elected power in a February 1 coup, is preparing to answer that call with an armed response.

The NUG’s armed wing, known as the People’s Defense Force (PDF), is bidding to unify various resistance groups into a unified nationwide armed insurrection. Recruitment to the force is underway, with one PDF trainee communicating with Asia Times under the pseudonym Thakhin Daung.

“The economy has crashed since 2020 and is twice as worse this year due to the coup, so people want PDF action quickly,” he claimed, noting that many of his civilian colleagues are eager for a full-scale war in response to the nation’s tri-pronged crisis.

To be sure, desperation is spreading far and wide. In April, the UNDP predicted that nearly half of the population, or some 26 million people, could be plunged into poverty by 2022. Since that downbeat forecast, the socio-economic situation has deteriorated significantly due to a fast-spreading third wave of Covid-19 cases.

The UN now estimates that half of Myanmar’s population could be infected with Covid-19 within the next two or three weeks, turning Myanmar into a “super-spreader state” that could threaten the entire region. The country’s health care system, already among the region’s most rudimentary due to decades of military mismanagement, is by any measure in a state of collapse.
https://asiatimes.com/2021/08/rising-cr ... d7ff190aa4

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Dozens of reports come in almost daily of murder's and massacre's across the country an untold hundreds of thousands have fled their home, while many are arrested for simple crime as having photos of the protests on their phones






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NO end in sight
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rather than face arrest by the army 5 youths jumped ot their deaths

Myanmar: Failed State or failed nation?
Following the chaos caused by the February 1 coup, many have begun to call Myanmar a “failed state” – a term that has been used extensively in the past few decades to characterise countries and governments that collapsed or are dysfunctional. The term covers a wide range of bureaucratic and other sins, and has been used for a variety of levels of mal-administration – from its absence to authoritarian control.

Although there are numerous definitions of the term, an administration that cannot provide normal state functions, such as defence, rule by law and some sense of justice, access to reasonable education, social and economic security and standards, and an internationally acceptable stance honouring such commitments can be called a failed state. Such states often experience internal violence, corruption, crime, poverty and decaying infrastructure.

In Myanmar, the breakdown of governance in all fields – most notably health under an explosive COVID-19 outbreak – constitutes a human tragedy that the world should not ignore. Anti-military demonstrations, resistance and rebellion, resulting in widespread arrests and close to 1,000 deaths and even more casualties, are rife throughout the country, compounding the chaos. It is now questionable whether any near-term government can mitigate this downward trajectory of the human condition.

But common “failed state” definitions ignore the possibility that although an administration may fail to supply its population with a reasonable standard of living, it may be considered a strong state through its coercive power – the weight of its military, police or intelligence apparatus in internal control.
https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/myan ... ed-nation/
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ok, another democratically government overthrown is headlines this week
but lets not forget:
people are still protesting,
still being arrested,
still dying in Burma
while the world seems to have forgotten about the country

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still protesting, still locks down, still arrests an murders

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Justice in the balance as UN considers recognition question
With the United Nations expected to soon decide whether Myanmar is represented in the General Assembly by the military regime or the National Unity Government, another important question may hang in the balance: who will represent Myanmar at the International Court of Justice?

The Gambia brought a case against Myanmar at the ICJ in 2019, accusing it of committing genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority. The allegations stem from the Tatmadaw’s brutal campaign of violence in 2017, which monitoring groups say killed thousands of Rohingya and forced more than 700,000 to flee across the border to refugee camps in Bangladesh. Nobel Peace Prize laureate State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi controversially defended the military’s actions before the ICJ in December 2019. Her administration was overthrown by the generals in February this year, and she is now being imprisoned by the very people she went to the Hague to defend
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The issue could come to a head when the General Assembly meets on September 14. Myanmar’s seat at the UN is occupied by U Kyaw Moe Tun, who has remained loyal to the overthrown government; the junta has not only sought to replace him, it has charged him with high treason and demanded his extradition. Last month, America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation announced details of an alleged assassination plot targeting Kyaw Moe Tun involving Myanmar nationals based in the US. The military regime has denied any involvement in the scheme.
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https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/just ... -question/

meanwhile the Junta's troops are also dying
Over 100 Myanmar Regime Troops Killed in August: KNLA
More than 100 Myanmar military troops died in August during fighting with the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) in its Brigade 5 area in Papun district, Karen State, according to the ethnic armed group.

The KNLA is the military wing of the Karen National Union (KNU), which has been fighting against Myanmar governments and previous military regimes for autonomy and equality for more than seven decades.

The KNU’s Mutraw (Papun) district information department said on Tuesday that 118 junta soldiers were killed and 68 were injured in more than 130 clashes between the junta and KNLA troops in their district. One of those injured was a battalion commander, it said.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/ov ... -knla.html

Across the month of August, civilians in Mon State, Karen State and Dawei experienced mounting levels of widespread human rights violations. Alongside the grievances and burdens, civilian resistance is still ongoing.
still striking
Over 400,000 Myanmar Civil Servants Still on Strike Against Military Regime
Over 400,000 civil servants have been on strike against the military regime since February, according to Myanmar’s shadow National Unity Government (NUG).

The NUG’s Planning and Finance Minister, U Tin Tun Naing, said on Tuesday that almost 410,000 government staff have “steadfastly joined the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) so far”
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/ov ... egime.html
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