Myanmar coup
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Myanmar: Facebook promotes content urging violence against coup protesters – study
Posts ranging from wanted posters to death threats remain online for months, breaching platform’s own standard…
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Myanmar reports highest Covid numbers since coup as concerns over health system grow
State hospitals are barely functioning as humanitarian crisis unfolds across the countryCoronavirus – latest u…
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Myanmar village destroyed amid clashes between military and anti-junta group
Residents say 200 homes in Kin Ma burned to ground after opponents of junta fought with regime’s forcesA villa…
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Myanmar junta forces reportedly kill 20 civilians in fresh clashes
Local media reported villagers fought back with catapults and crossbows after being assaulted by soldiers duri…
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Rise of armed civilian groups in Myanmar fuels fears of civil war
Dozens of grassroots people’s defence forces have emerged to take on brutal militaryMyanmar is on the verge of…
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Myanmar: fossil fuel giants cut payments to junta but gas still flows
Total and Chevron halt some payments to military in wake of coup but advocacy groups say more needs to be done…
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Remaking Myanmar’s devastated economy is the key for a future democracy | Thant Myint-U
Dictatorship must be resisted, but that’s not enough. Solving the country’s economic crisis could transform so…
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Myanmar junta labels opposition government of ousted MPs a ‘terrorist’ group
Coup leaders ban opposition national unity government, and contact with them, as they seek to quell ongoing pr…
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Children of the junta: the relatives of Myanmar’s military regime living in Australia
Relatives of military-linked officials are being targeted by anti-coup campaigners in Australia – even if they…
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‘We wanted to scare them’: the brothers who fought back against Myanmar’s army
Three months after the coup, four brothers tell how they joined protesters fighting the junta before fleeing f…
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Yemen, Myanmar and George Floyd: human rights this fortnight in pictures
A roundup of the coverage on struggles for human rights and freedoms, from Cambodia to Peru Continue reading..…
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Myanmar military must stop violence against citizens, says Joko Widodo
Indonesian president’s remarks come after crisis talks with junta chief and south-east Asian leadersMyanmar’s …
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Myanmar military junta arrests prominent trade union leader
Daw Myo Aye, labour organiser and a leader of civil disobedience protests, dragged from office by armyOne of M…
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Doctors under fire as Myanmar military targets efforts to aid injured protesters
Medics tell of attacks on staff and ambulances to stop treatment of patients and punish those who took part in…
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Is Myanmar the new Syria? Rising violence threatens a repeat tragedy
As ethnic militias back the popular uprising and refugees flee the country, the similarities with Syria are de…