Wednesday, July 13, 2022

The Irrawaddy Magazine

The Irrawaddy Magazine


Myanmar Junta Chief Back in Russia—the Only Country Willing to Take Him

Posted: 13 Jul 2022 05:55 AM PDT

It may be Min Aung Hlaing's main arms dealer and the only country willing to let him enter, but even Russia is reluctant to lend his presence much official weight. 

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Myanmar Junta Soldiers Killed as Resistance Fighter Blows Himself Up Before Arrest

Posted: 13 Jul 2022 05:31 AM PDT

The Yesagyo Revolution Group said its member blew up three grenades before he could be detained.  

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Teenage Girl Among Four Killed by Myanmar Junta Soldiers in Sagaing

Posted: 13 Jul 2022 05:13 AM PDT

A 17-year-old and her mother were shot dead together with two others by regime forces on Tuesday.

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First Cases of New COVID-19 Variant Found in Myanmar

Posted: 13 Jul 2022 04:31 AM PDT

The BA.4 and BA.5 variants of Omicron are fast becoming the dominant cause of COVID-19 infections around the world.

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Chin State Food Running Out as Myanmar Junta Blocks Roads

Posted: 13 Jul 2022 03:11 AM PDT

Residents in Matupi and Mindat townships have struggled to buy rice and other basics since the regime blocked roads to the mountainous state.

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House of Myanmar Junta Chief’s Sister Bombed in Yangon

Posted: 13 Jul 2022 02:57 AM PDT

Resistance groups launched a series of bomb attacks across the commercial capital on Monday and Tuesday.

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Myanmar Regime Battalion Commander, Deputy Killed in Clash With Resistance Group

Posted: 13 Jul 2022 02:22 AM PDT

They were among a unit of regime troops that was decimated by Cobra Column on the road leading to a strategic outpost in Karen State, the group said.

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Burma Must Make Clear its Nuclear Ambitions

Posted: 12 Jul 2022 11:49 PM PDT

As the regime signs an MoU with a Russian state nuclear energy corporation, The Irrawaddy revisits a 2009 commentary on the previous junta's atomic aspirations.

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Myanmar Military’s Culture of Atrocities 

Posted: 11 Jul 2022 06:59 PM PDT

The use of mass violence and atrocities against civilians is so deeply internalized in the military that the institution must be replaced.

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