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Coup, COVID take toll on young people’s mental health in Myanmar
3 years, 3 months ago

Coup, COVID take toll on young people’s mental health in Myanmar

Al Jazeera  

Van Thawng Thawng’s phone buzzed as a series of notifications lit up the screen. Cherry Soe Myint is a freelance counsellor in Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon, working in collaboration with the Applied Mental Health Research Group at Johns Hopkins University. It wasn’t because of me but the situation in the country.” Cherry Soe Myint, along with other mental health professionals, …

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Danny Fenster appears in Myanmar court after missing in detention,
3 years, 6 months ago

Danny Fenster appears in Myanmar court after missing in detention,

CNN  

CNN — Danny Fenster, a US journalist who was detained in Myanmar over three weeks ago, has appeared at a court in Yangon according to Frontier Myanmar, the news publication Fenster works for as managing editor. Fenster, who on Thursday appeared at a special court in Yangon’s Insein prison, has been charged under section 505a of Myanmar’s penal code, which …

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Myanmar Junta Leader Held Lavish Dinner Party While Troops Killed More Than 100 in Streets
3 years, 8 months ago

Myanmar Junta Leader Held Lavish Dinner Party While Troops Killed More Than 100 in Streets

News 18  

Military junta chief Min Aung Hlaing threw a lavish dinner party Saturday while his troops reportedly shot dead more than 100 people in the streets and forced thousands of people to flee into neighboring Thailand, during a weekend of indiscriminate terror and bloodshed that was widely condemned internationally. “Millions of children and young people have been directly or indirectly exposed …

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Protesters risk being killed in demonstrations against Myanmar's military coup. But an entire generation is still showing up to fight
3 years, 9 months ago

Protesters risk being killed in demonstrations against Myanmar's military coup. But an entire generation is still showing up to fight

ABC  

For many in Myanmar, showing up to protest has now become a life-or-death decision. "It's … a really sad thing to see that the mothers are giving them blessing to go out knowing they might never come back home or they might be arrested," Myanmar analyst Dr Khin Mar Mar Kyi said. "We, Generation Z, are fighting for our future, …

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Myanmar rattled by army movements, expected internet cutoff
3 years, 10 months ago

Myanmar rattled by army movements, expected internet cutoff

India TV News  

Sightings of armored personnel carriers in Myanmar’s biggest city and leaked orders of an impending internet shutdown raised political tensions late Sunday, after vast numbers of people around the country flouted orders against demonstrations to protest the military’s seizure of power. The military seized power on Feb. 1, detaining the country’s elected leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and members of …

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Myanmar restricts internet access as thousands protest for the first time since coup
3 years, 10 months ago

Myanmar restricts internet access as thousands protest for the first time since coup

LA Times  

Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar — some flashing a three-fingered salute borrowed from pro-democracy protesters in neighboring Thailand — march down a street on Saturday. After days of pent-up tension, thousands of demonstrators flooded the streets of Myanmar’s largest city Saturday to demand the return of a democratically elected civilian government deposed in a military coup earlier this week. “A news …

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Myanmar's coup has the traditional hallmarks of a military takeover. But there was one key difference
3 years, 10 months ago

Myanmar's coup has the traditional hallmarks of a military takeover. But there was one key difference

ABC  

When Myanmar's armed forces swooped on the homes of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other key figures from her National League for Democracy party in pre-dawn raids on February 1, it was unlike any military coup before. How social media made the junta nervous In the hours that followed the coup, people were declaring their support on various …

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Myanmar Police Arrest Nearly 100 Rohingya in Raid on House in Yangon
3 years, 11 months ago

Myanmar Police Arrest Nearly 100 Rohingya in Raid on House in Yangon

News 18  

Myanmar police arrested nearly 100 ethnic Rohingya on Wednesday after raiding a house in the commercial capital of Yangon, police and local media said. Myanmar frequently detains Rohingya, members of a Muslim minority, on grounds of “illegal travel” for attempting to leave their native western Rakhine state. Some 600,000 Rohingya live in Myanmar under what Amnesty International has called “apartheid …

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