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AFP has attempted to contact a junta spokesman for comment.The Aa are one of several armed ethnic minority groups in Myanmar's border areas, many of whom have fought the military since independence from Britain in 1948 over autonomy and control over lucrative resources. The AA claims to fight for greater autonomy for the state's ethnic […]
Relationships between the pages were observed in a variety of ways: they often shared creators, administrators, and editors, and regularly posted content using the same IP addresses used by the Myanmar military. “This network often featured identical content posted on multiple pages, sometimes within a matter of minutes,” IIMM said. The investigators highlighted that the […]
Last year, Ye Myo Hin, citing interviews with military deserters and defectors, analysis of military documents, and casualty figures, estimated that the Myanmar army had about 70,000 combat troops. Anthony Davis, a security analyst at the British-based Jane’s intelligence company, estimated the total strength of rebel ethnic forces in 2021 at about 75,000. Analysts said […]
‘cat and mouse’ Niger’s former colonial ruler France has denied the junta’s accusation that it was trying to destabilize the country or that it had violated its airspace. It has said it supports ECOWAS efforts to restore constitutional order. French troops, along with US, German and Italian forces, are present in Niger as part of […]
Niger last week scrapped a military cooperation agreement with France, which has 1,000 to 1,500 troops in the country. Sunday’s televised broadcast included a roundtable debate on encouraging solidarity in the face of ECOWAS sanctions, which have led to power cuts and rising food prices. The bloc’s military threat has raised fears of further conflict […]
He said the international community should respect Myanmar’s sovereignty and play a constructive role in helping achieve peace and reconciliation. Myanmar has been rocked by violence since the coup as pro-democracy activists have taken up arms, with ethnic minority forces fighting for self-determination in some places, to battle a well-equipped army. Attempts by Myanmar’s Southeast […]
It states that the military government will have the right to import and sell firearms and ammunition licensed by the Ministry of Defence. The Southeast Asian country’s top generals led a coup in February 2021 after five years of tense power-sharing under a semi-civilian political system created by the military. US-based conflict monitoring group Acled […]
According to the World Bank, the combination of the pandemic and the aftermath of the coup hit Myanmar’s economy with an 18 percent contraction in 2021. About 40 percent of the population was living in poverty in 2022, and Douglas said that financial hardship had forced many laborers to leave urban areas to work in […]
“They (the army) don’t think of us as people and treat us like animals”, said 35-year-old ethnic Chin. Her husband went missing in September following the 2021 military coup. The 215-page complaint alleges that the military “systematically killed, raped, tortured, imprisoned, disappeared, tortured and committed other acts amounting to genocide, crimes against humanity and war […]
