Wednesday, June 22, 2022

The Irrawaddy Magazine

The Irrawaddy Magazine


Myanmar Junta Troops Based at Chinese-Owned Mine Cut Up Villagers

Posted: 22 Jun 2022 07:00 AM PDT

Soldiers stationed at the controversial Wanbao copper mine in Sagaing Region are accused of slicing up two farmers. 

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Rakhine Citizens Seized After Myanmar Regime Office Raided 

Posted: 22 Jun 2022 05:39 AM PDT

Regime forces and the Arakan Army are seizing each other's personnel across sprawling Rakhine State as the threat of serious fighting looms.

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Myanmar’s Armed Resistance Groups Ready to go on Offensive: NUG

Posted: 22 Jun 2022 05:03 AM PDT

Fifteen months after the first People's Defense Forces were formed, the NUG's armed wing has made rapid progress and is becoming more like a professional army.

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Thousands Flee Junta Artillery Strikes in Upper Myanmar

Posted: 22 Jun 2022 03:08 AM PDT

Locals in Sagaing Region say regime forces are firing heavy weapons at civilian targets day and night.

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Myanmar Junta Moves Detained Leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to Prison

Posted: 22 Jun 2022 02:52 AM PDT

The 77-year-old democracy leader will likely be held in solitary confinement in the prison.

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Myanmar Junta Searches Homes After Arakan Army Seizures

Posted: 22 Jun 2022 02:10 AM PDT

The AA in Rakhine State says it has been seizing regime police and soldiers in response to junta abductions.

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Trial of Myanmar’s Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Moved to Prison Compound: Source

Posted: 22 Jun 2022 02:05 AM PDT

Future hearings in cases brought by the junta against the ousted State Counselor, 77, will be heard in a specially built court inside Naypyitaw Prison, a source said.

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Myanmar Junta in ‘Political and Military Cul-de-Sac’: Security Expert

Posted: 22 Jun 2022 01:07 AM PDT

Janes' Anthony Davis says Myanmar's highly motivated PDFs have taken their resistance against an arrogant and ineffective Myanmar military into a crucial second phase.

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Resistance Group Founder Killed by Myanmar Junta Troops Died a Hero, Comrades Say

Posted: 22 Jun 2022 12:41 AM PDT

SBDF chief Bo Thanmani, son of a Rakhine communist rebel, was killed in a clash in Shwebo while using his group's only assault rifle to cover his fighters, members say.

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Who is Behind Myanmar Junta’s Ye-U Massacre?

Posted: 21 Jun 2022 06:39 AM PDT

The killing of 26 Sagaing Region residents has been linked to orders from the 4th Military Operations commander Brigadier General Kyi Thaik.

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France Pressured to Block Total’s Payment to Myanmar Junta

Posted: 21 Jun 2022 05:17 AM PDT

French oil and gas major Total is due to pay the regime millions of dollars as it abandons a project with Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise.

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Myanmar Political Prisoners Crushed into Warehouse for Celebrating Suu Kyi Birthday

Posted: 21 Jun 2022 05:06 AM PDT

Political prisoners across Myanmar defied the junta by marking the deposed state counselor's 77th birthday.

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Myanmar’s Neighbors Must Refuse to Engage With the Military Regime

Posted: 21 Jun 2022 04:55 AM PDT

If the international community places concerted pressure on the junta and isolates it completely, the military will be forced to make concessions.

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Five Villagers Tortured and Killed by Junta Forces in Upper Myanmar

Posted: 21 Jun 2022 02:22 AM PDT

Regime soldiers continue to target civilians during their lethal and brutal raids in restive Sagaing Region.  

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Former Yangon Finance Minister Sentenced by Myanmar Junta for Corruption 

Posted: 21 Jun 2022 02:18 AM PDT

U Ye Min Oo received a 15-year sentence and still faces several other charges. 

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