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Myanmar’s 'Dead Body Carriers' Exhausted

With hospitals in junta-run Myanmar empty of pro-democracy medical staff and coronavirus cases surging nationwide, volunteers are going house-to-house to collect the fast-rising number of victims dying in their homes.Early each morning, Than Than Soe's phone starts ringing with requests from family members of those who have died in the commercial capital Yangon.She writes the name, address and contact number of the victim in a ledger and dispatches a team to their home."We are runni

19 July 2021
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Inside A Myanmar Clinic Fighting A New COVID Surge

In a clinic in a remote Myanmar town, some of the few doctors still working after the coup emptied hospitals are battling to keep their COVID-19 patients alive as the virus resurges.Infections are spiking in Myanmar, with the State Administration Council – as the military junta calls itself – reporting more than 4,000 cases on Thursday, in a crisis made worse by shortages of critical medical equipment. AFP footage from inside a clinic in the north-western town of Kalay showed patient

18 July 2021
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Desperate Search For O2 As Myanmar Battles COVID

Residents across Myanmar's biggest city are defying a military curfew in a desperate search for oxygen to keep their loved ones breathing as a new coronavirus wave crashes over the coup-wracked country.The spike in cases is the latest blow to Myanmar, already suffering from a February coup and a bloody crackdown on dissent that has killed over 900 people and gutted the economy. Hundreds queued across Yangon as the sun rose Wednesday in the hope of refilling blue oxygen cylinders

15 July 2021
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Junta Frees Thousands Of Anti-Coup Protesters

Myanmar authorities released more than 2,000 anti-coup protesters from prisons across the country on Wednesday, including local journalists jailed after reporting critically on the junta's bloody crackdown.Myanmar has been rocked by massive protests and a brutal military response since the February coup that ousted Aung San Suu Kyi and her government.More than 880 civilians have been killed in a crackdown by the State Administration Council – as the junta calls itself – and almost 6,500

1 July 2021
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Thousands In Myanmar Call For 'Spring Revolution'

Thousands of anti-coup protesters marched in Myanmar on Sunday, calling for a "spring revolution" with the country in its fourth month under a military regime.Cities, rural areas, remote mountainous regions and even rebel-controlled border territories have been in uproar since the military ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi in a 1 February coup.The junta has aimed to suppress dissent through a brutal crackdown involving mass arrests and an escalating death toll.Demonstrations k

3 May 2021
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Myanmar Enters Fourth Month Under Junta

Explosions rocked Myanmar's largest city Yangon on Saturday as protesters held flash marches for democracy, defying a brutal junta that has held onto power for three bloody months. The country has been in turmoil since the military ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi on 1 February, bringing an abrupt end to Myanmar's short-lived experiment with democracy.The power grab has triggered a massive uprising which the authorities have tried to quell with lethal force and live

2 May 2021
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90 Killed In Myanmar Junta Crackdowns

Myanmar's security forces killed nearly 90 people in the bloodiest day since the military seized power, a monitoring group said Saturday, as the junta staged a major show of might for its annual Armed Forces Day. The nation has been in turmoil since the generals ousted and detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi in February, triggering a major uprising demanding a return to democracy.The country's capital Naypyidaw saw a grand parade of troops and military vehicles in the

28 March 2021
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Military Make Civilians Break Yangon Barricades

Makeshift barricades of bamboo, brick and burning rubber tyres have lent the streets of Myanmar's largest city the look of an urban warzone, and now the military are forcing civilians to dismantle them, piece by piece...

21 March 2021
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BBC Journo 'Missing', Yangon Exodus Starts

A Burmese journalist with the British Broadcasting Corporation’s (BBC) Myanmar language news service went "missing" on Friday, as civilians fled the coup-hit country's largest city after the junta's deadly crackdown on dissent. Myanmar has been in turmoil since the military ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi on 1 February, triggering a mass uprising that security forces have sought to crush with a campaign of violence and fear. The junta has also gon

20 March 2021
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UN Urged To Hear Myanmar’s 'Desperate Pleas'

Another anti-coup protester was shot dead in Myanmar on Friday as a United Nations (UN) envoy urged the Security Council to hear the nation's "desperate pleas" and take swift action to restore democracy.Despite an increasingly brutal crackdown by the military authorities that has seen more than 50 people killed, protesters took to the streets again in towns around the country to denounce the 1 February coup.In Mandalay, Myanmar's second largest city, hundreds of engineers

6 March 2021
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Myanmar's UN Envoy Fired As Crackdowns Continue

Myanmar's junta fired its United Nations (UN) ambassador Saturday for breaking ranks to denounce the military's ouster of civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, as police stepped up a crackdown on protesters across the country. The country has been shaken by a wave of demonstrations since a coup toppled civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi on 1 February. Authorities have ramped up the use of force to suppress dissent, deploying tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets to d

28 February 2021
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Fear In Yangon As Police Break Up Protests

Riot police in Myanmar on Friday dispersed hundreds of anti-coup protesters who have rallied daily in the country's largest city against a junta that toppled civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi.The country has seen an outpouring of anger and defiance from hundreds of thousands of protesters who have gathered to call for Suu Kyi's release and a return to democracy.In some cities, security forces have steadily increased their use of force, but in commercial hub Yangon, authorities have e

27 February 2021
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