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The release of Aung San Suu Kyi and around 20,000 fellow political prisoners will be the most crucial step towards ending the conflict in Myanmar, the country’s government-in-exile has said. The ...
Ms Suu Kyi’s fall from grace is explored in a new Independent TV documentary, Cancelled: The rise and fall of Aung San Suu Kyi, which takes an unbiased look at her life and the plight of Myanmar ...
11 August - Five people are killed and approximately 40,000 are evacuated due to floods and landslides from monsoon rains in Myanmar. [ 20 ] 14 August - 2023 Hpakant jade mine disaster - At least 34 miners are missing after a landslide at a jade mine in Hpakant .
27 November - The Chief Prosecutor of International Criminal Court said he had requested an arrest warrant for Myanmar's leader, Senior-General Min Aung Hlaing. [66] 30 November - Myanmar Navy patrol boats shot at two Thai fishing vessels, resulted in the death of one fisherman - during an attempted flee - and the arrest of 31 others. Among the ...
As a consequence, Bangladesh's foreign minister summoned Myanmar's ambassador, calling for him to desist from such activities and to work for mutually beneficial relations between the two countries. [2] As a result, Bangladesh revealed that is ready to face any situation, deploying the 34 Border Guard Bangladesh battalion on the border with ...
Some said they feared airstrikes by the Myanmar military after the rebel capture of Myawaddy, a town of around 200,000 people lying across the Moei River from the Thai city of Mae Sot. Thailand's ...
The violence resulted in the deaths of hundreds of people in Myanmar's Rakhine state. At least 1,000 have been killed by 7 September, according to Yanghee Lee, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights for Myanmar. She added that the figure is "very likely an underestimate". [50]
A major based in central Myanmar says it was the military's brutality that prompted him to switch sides. "I saw the bodies of tortured civilians. I shed tears," says Kyaw [not his real name].