All 74 lawmakers jailed in ASEAN are in Myanmar prisons and 73 of them are members of the National League for Democracy, report by ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights says.
Junta accused of another war crime after its military bombs a hospital in Chin State's Mindat Township on Thursday night, killing civilians and destroying the facility.
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The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army displayed the condemned men on a stage in Kokang's capital and announced their death sentences via loud speakers.
The ethnic army said the villagers from Maungdaw were killed by 'criminal gangs'. It denied reports that its forces had detained the five prior to their deaths.
The NUCC's internal squabbling was on full display at an acrimonious press conference earlier this month, raising doubts about the effectiveness of such a diverse body.
Karen National Liberation Army commander say regime troops fled their base and left their weapons behind so they could pass themselves off as civilians to escape the area.
A Myanmar naval vessel picked up the 288 troops, border police and immigration officials near Cox's Bazar on Thursday morning, Bangladeshi officials said.
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Karen State has seen a surge in scam centers, run by Chinese gangs and backed by EAOs, since China cracked down on such hubs on its border with Shan State, USIP warned.
Interim council is making preparations for civilian rule as resistance forces push to retake last remaining 10 percent of territory still in hands of regime troops.
Residents flee Sagaing Region's Shwe Pyi Aye as junta pounds the National Unity Government administered town and nearby villages with shelling and airstrikes.
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