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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] Australia’s Future Fund invested in weapons manufacturers that have sold arms to Myanmar military

Read: 29/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

Australia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Future Fund, has invested in a Chinese state-controlled weapons manufacturer that has sold combat aircraft to the Myanmar military, which is accused of crimes against humanity.

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[Link] Myanmar court jails two Aung San Suu Kyi allies for total of 165 years

Read: 10/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

A court in Myanmar has sentenced two members of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s political party to 90 years and 75 years in prison after finding them guilty of corruption, their lawyer said.

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[Link] Millions of Pills and Tons of Meth Make Up Asia’s Biggest Ever Drug Seizure

Read: 31/10/2021 www.vice.com

This is what Asia’s single biggest illegal drug bust looked like, after authorities in Laos intercepted a smuggler’s vehicle in the country’s northwestern Bokeo Province on Wednesday night.

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[Link] For These Buddhist Monks, Sex Ed Starts With Safe Masturbation

Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com

Sunshine pours in through the monastery classroom window as monks in crimson robes lock their gaze in rapt attention at the chalkboard. Their instructor smiles warmly and asks them what they know about the use of a condom.  

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[Link] Myanmar military says it will release 5,600 anti-coup prisoners

Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com

Myanmar’s military has announced plans to release more than 5,000 prisoners, days after the junta chief was blocked from attending an upcoming regional summit over his failure to commit to de-escalating the country’s crisis.

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[Link] Activists are Designing Mesh Networks to Deploy During Civil Unrest

Read: 5/10/2021 www.vice.com

Imagine waking up and checking your phone after several evenings of mass demonstrations. You try scrolling through your Twitter feed, but it won’t load. You turn your router off and on to no avail. You try texting a friend to complain, but the message fails to send. Frustrated, you walk outside.

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[Link] 'Hire a hit man': Two charged in US over plot to kill Myanmar's UN ambassador

Read: 8/8/2021 www.abc.net.au

US prosecutors have charged two Myanmar citizens over an alleged plot to attack the Asian country's UN ambassador, Kyaw Moe Tun.

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[Link] Amber Fossil Shows ‘Hell Ant’ Was Unlike Anything Alive Today

Read: 7/8/2021 www.smithsonianmag.com

Some 99 million years ago an ant unlike any alive today was in the midst of a savage scythe-jawed attack when dripping plant resin froze the insect, along with its prey, in a final predatory tableau.

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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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