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No negotiations with coup dissidents: Myanmar junta
The Southeast Asian nation has been in chaos since a February coup, with more than 1,100 killed in a crackdown on dissent, according to a local monitoring group
Killings in Rohingya camp to disrupt repatriation process: Momen
The people who do not want to return Myanmar for their own interest might be committing one massacre after another in the camps, the foreign minister said
UN fears 'mass atrocity crimes' in Myanmar as troops gather in north
The UN said Friday it feared an even greater human rights catastrophe in Myanmar amid reports of thousands of troops massing in the north of the Southeast Asian country, which has been in chaos since ...
'Myanmar junta re-arrests more than 100 released in amnesty'
Myanmar’s junta has re-arrested more than 100 anti-coup protesters freed in a recent amnesty, according to a local monitoring group that tracks detentions and killings in the country
Relatives crowd prison after Myanmar junta protester amnesty
Family members of Myanmar's pro-democracy prisoners crowded outside a jail Tuesday, hoping their relatives would be among thousands the junta has promised to release as it faces growing international ...
Myanmar junta chief excluded from ASEAN summit
Myanmar's junta chief will be excluded from an upcoming ASEAN summit, the group said Saturday, a rare rebuke as concerns rise over the military government's commitment to defusing a bloody crisis
UN deal offers no guarantees of free movement for Rohingya on island: Leaked copy
A deal for the United Nations to start work on a remote Bangladeshi island where the government has sent thousands of Rohingya refugees offers no guarantee they will be allowed to move freely to the ...
ASEAN to discuss excluding Myanmar junta leader from summit
The UN, US and China, among others, have backed ASEAN’s efforts to find a diplomatic solution, but pressure on the group has mounted in recent months, with some critics calling for tougher measures ...
Rohingya ‘Repatriation is very important’: Japan ambassador
Ito Naoki has also highly appreciated Bangladesh’s achievement in Covid-19 management under prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s leadership
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Ousted Myanmar president describes first moments of coup
The 69-year-old recounted how two senior army officers entered his room in the early hours of 1 February “and urged him to resign from his post of the presidency”
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