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Heroes of the Revolution
30th April 2021 More and more “ordinary” people are being abducted by the regime. This coup is affecting everyone in the country, even non-revolutionary people, and public servants. They are silent heroes, each, and every one. Dr Zaw Min Aye, Medical Superintendent of Bhamo Hospital was found dead in
Air Base Attacked
29th April 2021 Cash is in increasingly short supply and few ATMs are open and withdrawals are limited to a few dollars. There were four bomb blasts in Hakha, Chin State around 4 am this morning. Locals said that the incidents happened near the house of the Chin state military
Daily News Roundup – 30 April 2021
Housing crisis Hamish Rutherford (Herald): Government’s fix for its housing problems are just a game of whack-a-mole (paywalled) Amelia Wade (Newshub): Even if house prices fell 20 percent, three-quarters of renters still couldn’t afford one Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Govt crunches numbers to reveal property investors’
Something Odd Is Going On
28th April 2021 The view of Mindat shows how difficult the terrain can be for the Junta troops to assert their authority. It is why a guerrilla war could keep going for years, as it has done for 70 years, but with more intensity. Following on from the intensive firefight
Daily News Roundup – 29 April 2021
Health reforms: Maori Health Authority Jo Moir (Newsroom): Collins ignores facts for political point-scoring Tova O’Brien (Newshub): National leader Judith Collins’ ‘segregation’ remark earns her Maori Party rebuke RNZ: Collins says her party won’t stand for ‘racist separatism’ New Zealand Michael Neilson (Herald): Judith Collins calls Maori
Daily News Roundup – 28 April 2021
Housing crisis Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Emergency housing costs weigh on Government books, costing hundreds of millions a year Jane Patterson (RNZ): Government ‘ducking for cover’ over emergency housing – National Rotorua Daily Post: Millions spent weekly in Rotorua on supplements to help pay rent (paywalled) Sophie Cornish (Stuff): Immigration NZ looking
Secret Army Death Instructions
26th April 2021 The Tatmadaw has upped the destructive capability of the weapons being deployed against the civilians. It took a couple of weeks for the army and police to start getting serious about violence against the demonstrators when they realised that the demonstrations weren’t going to stop. As
Daily News Roundup – 27 April 2021
NZ-China-Australia relations Luke Malpass (Stuff): New Zealand isn’t ‘sucking up’ to China by learning from countries’ mistakes Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Outrage over Nanaia Mahuta’s speech is really about Jacinda Ardern Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Where’s the real criticism of NZ and
The Week in Review
We’re focused on the issues that matter to Kiwis. Catch up on the latest in politics with our Week in Review below. * Labour adopts National policy at the border * Emergency Housing costs up to half a billion dollars * Health reforms about ideology over delivery * Time to take the guns
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Starvation Looms for 3,000,000
25th April 2021 Stanley Baldwin, the British Prime Minister said in 1932 “The only defence is in offence, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you want to save yourselves.” He was referring to aerial bombardment, but it is a
NZ Race Relations Roundup
breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com News: Kelvin Davis launches new Maori Pathways prisoner rehabilitation scheme The Government is hoping “a for Maori, by Maori approach” will reduce reoffending and the over-representation of tangata whenua in prison. Maori make up about 15 per cent of the general population but more than 50