6th April 2021 We’ll start off today with a cartoon that sums up peoples’ feelings in Myanmar. The death toll in Myanmar continues to mount, but not quite in the way you would expect. Four soldiers died on Sunday afternoon when a grenade was hurled into a truck as
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5th April 2021 Following on from the report about Russia’s incursions into Myanmar’s domestic affairs, there is a local view from the Irrawaddy which is worth a read. The presence of Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Vasilyevich Fomin, dressed in his full colonel-general uniform, at the Armed Forces
5th April 2021 Russia’s deputy foreign minister, Alexander Fomin paid a visit to Nay Pyi Taw on Army day and met with the coup leaders, saying Moscow was “committed to a strategy aimed at bolstering relations between the two countries.” Russia has been Myanmar’s second-largest source of arms
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Michael Cook mercatornet.com Every once in a while, a bioethics article appears which is so powerful an indictment of injustice that it sends shivers up the spines of its readers. In 1949 Leo Alexander published “Medical Science under Dictatorship” in the New England Journal of Medicine, about the atrocities
A lot has happened over the last year, explanations are scarce and credible summations as to what, why and when are unbelievably hard to come by. As Winston Churchill once said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste”. The cynicism shown by world leaders throughout this crisis knows no
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“In my country, Myanmar, while I’m doing a speech on this day, there are so many people dying, more than 100 people died today. I deeply feel sorry for all the people who have lost their life.” The words of the Miss Grand International beauty pageant’s contestant from
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3rd April 2021 Regular readers of these pieces will know that I always try to give a balanced view and occasionally give space to items from The Global New Light of Myanmar, the state-approved English language newspaper, a rival to The Myanmar Times, which has not been published since February
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1st April 2021 Underneath is the reason why it is so difficult to get information from Myanmar. Mobile networks have been offline since 15th March and network connectivity is sporadic to say the least. Meanwhile resistance continues to grow and the EAOs are becoming more active. Below is a clip
