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Myanmar Court Sentences Former Minister to 10 Years Prison

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Myanmar Court Sentences Former Minister to 10 Years Prison

A court inside Myanmar’s Insein Prison yesterday sentenced the country’s former minister of information to 10 years in prison for expressing dissent against the ruling military junta. According to a report from the Burmese language service of Radio Free Asia (RFA), which cited “sources with ties” to the fearsome Yangon prison, the sentence against Ye … Read more

Myanmar Junta Extends State of Emergency for Fourth Time

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Pumping Up Myanmar’s Junta With Guns, Trade, and Tourism

ASEAN Beat | Politics | Southeast Asia The extension is an admission that the military has failed to quell the broad-based armed resistance to its rule. Advertisement Myanmar’s military junta has extended its state of emergency by a further six months, once again delaying elections that it had vowed to hold by the end of the year. The country’s … Read more