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Myanmar: Four years after coup, world must demand accountability for atrocity crimes

Source: Amnesty International

Published on Jan. 31, 2025, 11:49 p.m.

The international community must take urgent action to ensure accountability for atrocities in Myanmar, 46 organizations said today ahead of the four-year anniversary of the 1 February 2021 military coup.

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Myanmar’s Youth at Risk

Source: Progressive Voice Myanmar

Published on Jan. 31, 2025, 11:45 p.m.

Kicking off 2025, the Myanmar military junta once again intensified its forced conscription campaign, issuing new measures on 23 January.

Weekly Highlight | Progressive Voice Myanmar

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Education International calls for the restoration of democracy in Myanmar

Source: Education International

Published on Jan. 31, 2025, 11:33 p.m.

Four years since the coup d'état in Myanmar, democracy defenders continue to bravely resist the military junta. Educators around the world fully support our colleagues and the people of Myanmar in their struggle for freedom.

Education International

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Foreign secretary David Lammy makes impassioned plea for release of Aung San Suu Kyi

Source: The Independent

Published on Jan. 31, 2025, 11:10 p.m.

Exclusive: Cabinet minister demands she be freed after Independent TV documentary examines her rise and fall – and the plight of the people of Myanmar

Kate Devlin

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Healing the young rebels of Myanmar's civil war

Source: Al Jazeera

Published on Jan. 31, 2025, 11:54 a.m.

Hundreds of badly injured fighters from Myanmar’s civil war have been helped to recover at the Sunshine Care Centre.

Ali MC | Al Jazeera

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Aung San Suu Kyi isn’t the villain of Myanmar’s tragedy

Source: Asia Times

Published on Jan. 31, 2025, 11:45 a.m.

This is not journalism—it’s the rhetorical equivalent of lighting a pyre beneath a woman enduring her 19th year of imprisonment, including her fourth concurrent year in solitary confinement, and calling it justice.

Alan CLEMENTS; Fergus HARLOW

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Lashio still under Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army control despite reports of impending retreat

Source: Democratic Voice of Burma

Published on Jan. 31, 2025, 11:16 a.m.

A member of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) administration in Lashio told DVB that the northern Shan State regional capital was still under its control on Thursday, denying media reports that its forces will withdraw by the end of June

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CHINA’S ENFORCER AND REFEREE ROLE: Kokang withdrawal from Lashio confirmed

Source: Shan Herald Agency for News

Published on Jan. 31, 2025, 11:04 a.m.

The rumors have been around for a few weeks ever since the meeting between the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) and junta or State Administration Council (SAC) took place in mid-January in Kunming, brokered by Beijing.

Sai WANSAI

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Myanmar extends state of emergency for another six months

Source: Radio Free Asia

Published on Jan. 31, 2025, 10:57 a.m.

The extension means an election can only be in the second half of the year at the earliest.

RFA Burmese

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24-hour Global Day of Prayer for peace in Myanmar

Source: Vatican News

Published on Jan. 31, 2025, 10:31 a.m.

Four years on from a coup in the country, Aid to the Church in Need will divide February 1 into prayer shifts, so that people all around the world can partake in this global initiative.

Kielce Gussie

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