Thursday, June 24, 2021

The Irrawaddy Magazine

The Irrawaddy Magazine


Myanmar Junta Reorganizes Legal Team for ICJ Rohingya Genocide Case

Posted: 24 Jun 2021 06:47 AM PDT

The regime's foreign minister, U Wunna Maung Lwin, will lead the defense in the case before the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

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Kachin Independence Army Calls Myanmar’s People to be Alert

Posted: 24 Jun 2021 05:49 AM PDT

Conflict is increasingly spreading across the country, says the armed group's spokesman.

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Myanmar Junta Propaganda Books Hope to Rewrite History

Posted: 24 Jun 2021 05:15 AM PDT

Following its predecessors' footsteps, the current regime is already publishing books claiming the coup was essential to defend Myanmar.

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Myanmar Junta Police Wounded in KIA Attack

Posted: 24 Jun 2021 05:06 AM PDT

The ethnic armed group attacked a regime checkpoint just outside the Kachin State capital Myitkyina in the latest in a series of attacks on junta forces in northern Myanmar.

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Junta Chief Says He’s ‘Trying to Bring Honesty Back to Myanmar Politics’

Posted: 24 Jun 2021 02:16 AM PDT

Addressing an international conference in Moscow, coup maker Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing repeated his discredited claim that the NLD rigged last year's election.

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Myanmar Reports Record Number of New Covid-19 Cases

Posted: 24 Jun 2021 02:04 AM PDT

The 680 new infections reported Wednesday are the highest since the junta's February coup as the country struggles with fresh coronavirus wave.

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Ex-Philippine Leader Benigno Aquino Dies at 61

Posted: 23 Jun 2021 11:55 PM PDT

Aquino, who presided over a period of economic growth from 2010 to 2016, had recently been hospitalized for an illness.

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