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[Link] Yangon’s silenced streets: how a hotbed of anti-coup resistance was extinguished
Read: 6/2/2022 www.theguardian.com
As Thitsar* walked through her neighbourhood one December morning, she was struck by its emptiness. The bamboo shacks that line the streets of Hlaing Tharyar, an industrial township on the outskirts of Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon, lay in tatters, overgrown with weeds.
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[Link] Australian energy giant Woodside withdraws from Myanmar almost one year after military coup
Read: 27/1/2022 www.abc.net.au
Australian energy giant Woodside has announced it is withdrawing from Myanmar, almost one year after the military seized power in an illegal coup.
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[Link] Disabled Man and Teenagers Among 11 Shot and Burned in Horrific Massacre
Read: 8/12/2021 www.vice.com
Warning: This article contains graphic images. News outlet Myanmar Now reported locals as saying that some of the victims’ hands were tied when their bodies were found. Cries for help were reportedly heard during the fire, leading some to believe that they were burned alive.
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[Link] Video Captures Horrific Moment Military Truck Rams Into Unarmed Protesters
Read: 6/12/2021 www.vice.com
At least three civilians have been killed and dozens injured in Myanmar after a military truck was caught on camera speeding towards a crowd and running down unarmed protesters.
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[Link] The First Female President of Honduras Just Vowed to End Narco Corruption
Read: 29/11/2021 www.vice.com
After one of the most dramatic elections in Honduran history, Xiomara Castro has declared herself the winner, making her the first female president in the country's history. Then she made her first promise: to end the narco-corruption that plagued the reign of her predecessor.
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[Link] Widow of former South Korean dictator Chun Doo-hwan offers ‘deep apology’ for brutal rule
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The widow of South Korea’s last military dictator has issued a brief apology over the “pains and scars” caused by her husband’s brutal rule as dozens of relatives and former aides gathered at a Seoul hospital to pay their final respects to Chun Doo-hwan.
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[Link] Sudan military ‘ready to reinstate PM and release political detainees’
Read: 21/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Sudan’s military plans to reinstate Abdalla Hamdok as prime minister and release all political detainees under a deal to end weeks of deadly unrest, the head of one of the country’s main political parties has said.
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[Link] Al Jazeera bureau chief arrested in Sudan amid deadly anti-coup protests
Read: 15/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Sudanese security forces have raided the home of Al Jazeera’s Khartoum bureau chief and arrested him, the news outlet has said, a day after street protests across Sudan against a military takeover.
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[Link] Rightwing Chilean newspaper accused of ‘apology for Nazism’ over Göring article
Read: 26/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Chile’s main conservative daily newspaper has been accused of publishing “an apology for Nazism” after running an illustrated article commemorating the life of the German war criminal Hermann Göring.
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[Link] QAnon’s Biggest Conference Is in Complete Shambles Right Now
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. QAnon John has had a difficult week. First he was kicked out of QAnon’s biggest influencer group for calling on U.S.
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[Link] Myanmar’s UN envoy accuses military junta of township massacre
Read: 5/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Myanmar’s ambassador to the United Nations, who has refused to leave his post despite being fired by the junta after the February coup, has alerted the world body to a “reported massacre” by the military.
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