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3 Myanmar Brigadier Generals Sentenced To Death For Surrendering Town
Myanmar's junta has sentenced to death three brigadier generals who surrendered with hundreds of troops and handed over a strategic town on the Chinese border to ethnic minority fighters last month, military sources told AFP on Monday.
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Myanmar Armed Group Claims It Has "Completely Controlled" Port Town Pauktaw
Fighters from a Myanmar ethnic minority armed group have seized control of a port town after more than two months of intense clashes with junta troops, they said.
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"I'm A Mandalay Girl": Teenage Soldier Fights On Myanmar's Front Lines
An 18-year-old recruit in one of Myanmar's pro-democracy fighting units prepares to launch a drone strike on junta troops, driven by anger and her mothers call for revolution.
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More Myanmar Troops Enter Mizoram As Rebels Step Up Assault Against Junta
At least 29 more Myanmar soldiers entered Mizoram on Thursday fleeing an attack by insurgents on their military base close to the border, a police official said, as rebels step up their assaults against the ruling junta.
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Myanmar Junta Sets Hundreds Of Houses On Fire, Villagers Claim
Myanmar junta troops have torched hundreds of buildings during a three-day raid in the country's north, local media and residents said, as the military struggles to crush resistance to its rule.
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Myanmar Military Burns Villages To Crush Resistance
Rubble and ashes, overlooked by a single golden pagoda, are almost all that remain of the wood and brick houses most people had built for themselves in the quiet riverside village of Bin in the Buddhist heartland of central Myanmar.
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UN Fears "Mass Atrocity Crimes" In Myanmar Amid Military Build-Up In North
The UN said Friday it feared an even greater human rights catastrophe in Myanmar amid reports of thousands of troops massing in the north of the Southeast Asian country, which has been in chaos since a February coup.
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UN Fears For Civilians After Myanmar's Military Build-Up
The United Nations voiced alarm Friday at Myanmar's military junta deploying heavy weapons and troops to particular townships, fearing for the civilian population.
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At Least 20 Dead In Myanmar As Junta Troops Clash With Ruling Military
At least 20 people have been killed in fighting between militias and Myanmar's ruling military, a witness and local media said on Friday, in the worst violence since opponents of the junta called this week for a "people's defensive war".
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11 Dead As Myanmar Protesters Fight Troops With Handmade Guns, Firebombs
Anti-coup demonstrators in Myanmar fought back with handmade guns and firebombs against a crackdown by security forces in a town in the northwest but at least 11 of the protesters were killed, domestic media reported on Thursday.
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Troops Fire At Funeral As Myanmar Mourns Bloodiest Day Since Coup
Myanmar security forces opened fire at a funeral on Sunday, witnesses said, as people across the country gathered to mourn 114 people killed the previous day in the worst crackdown on protests since last month's military coup.
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Myanmar Air Strike On Thai Border, Troops Kill Dozens Including Children
Myanmar army fighter jets launched air strikes on Saturday on a village near the Thai border in territory controlled by an armed ethnic group, the group said, as fears grow of civil war following last month's military coup.
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3 Hours In "Hell Room": Myanmar Protester Describes Beating In Custody
A protester in Myanmar who says he was detained by troops for three hours as part of the crackdown against opponents of last month's military coup has described being beaten with belts, chains, bamboo sticks and batons.
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Fresh Anti-Coup Protests In Myanmar After Overnight Internet Blackout
Myanmar's junta cut the nation's internet and deployed extra troops around the country on Monday as fears built of a widespread crackdown on anti-coup protests, but defiant demonstrators again took to the streets.
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Myanmar Military Seizes Yangon City Hall: Report
Myanmar troops on Monday seized control of Yangon city hall, as signs grow of a coup d'etat after the military arrested the country's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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3 Myanmar Brigadier Generals Sentenced To Death For Surrendering Town
Myanmar's junta has sentenced to death three brigadier generals who surrendered with hundreds of troops and handed over a strategic town on the Chinese border to ethnic minority fighters last month, military sources told AFP on Monday.
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Myanmar Armed Group Claims It Has "Completely Controlled" Port Town Pauktaw
Fighters from a Myanmar ethnic minority armed group have seized control of a port town after more than two months of intense clashes with junta troops, they said.
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"I'm A Mandalay Girl": Teenage Soldier Fights On Myanmar's Front Lines
An 18-year-old recruit in one of Myanmar's pro-democracy fighting units prepares to launch a drone strike on junta troops, driven by anger and her mothers call for revolution.
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More Myanmar Troops Enter Mizoram As Rebels Step Up Assault Against Junta
At least 29 more Myanmar soldiers entered Mizoram on Thursday fleeing an attack by insurgents on their military base close to the border, a police official said, as rebels step up their assaults against the ruling junta.
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Myanmar Junta Sets Hundreds Of Houses On Fire, Villagers Claim
Myanmar junta troops have torched hundreds of buildings during a three-day raid in the country's north, local media and residents said, as the military struggles to crush resistance to its rule.
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Myanmar Military Burns Villages To Crush Resistance
Rubble and ashes, overlooked by a single golden pagoda, are almost all that remain of the wood and brick houses most people had built for themselves in the quiet riverside village of Bin in the Buddhist heartland of central Myanmar.
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UN Fears "Mass Atrocity Crimes" In Myanmar Amid Military Build-Up In North
The UN said Friday it feared an even greater human rights catastrophe in Myanmar amid reports of thousands of troops massing in the north of the Southeast Asian country, which has been in chaos since a February coup.
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UN Fears For Civilians After Myanmar's Military Build-Up
The United Nations voiced alarm Friday at Myanmar's military junta deploying heavy weapons and troops to particular townships, fearing for the civilian population.
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At Least 20 Dead In Myanmar As Junta Troops Clash With Ruling Military
At least 20 people have been killed in fighting between militias and Myanmar's ruling military, a witness and local media said on Friday, in the worst violence since opponents of the junta called this week for a "people's defensive war".
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11 Dead As Myanmar Protesters Fight Troops With Handmade Guns, Firebombs
Anti-coup demonstrators in Myanmar fought back with handmade guns and firebombs against a crackdown by security forces in a town in the northwest but at least 11 of the protesters were killed, domestic media reported on Thursday.
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Troops Fire At Funeral As Myanmar Mourns Bloodiest Day Since Coup
Myanmar security forces opened fire at a funeral on Sunday, witnesses said, as people across the country gathered to mourn 114 people killed the previous day in the worst crackdown on protests since last month's military coup.
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Myanmar Air Strike On Thai Border, Troops Kill Dozens Including Children
Myanmar army fighter jets launched air strikes on Saturday on a village near the Thai border in territory controlled by an armed ethnic group, the group said, as fears grow of civil war following last month's military coup.
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3 Hours In "Hell Room": Myanmar Protester Describes Beating In Custody
A protester in Myanmar who says he was detained by troops for three hours as part of the crackdown against opponents of last month's military coup has described being beaten with belts, chains, bamboo sticks and batons.
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Fresh Anti-Coup Protests In Myanmar After Overnight Internet Blackout
Myanmar's junta cut the nation's internet and deployed extra troops around the country on Monday as fears built of a widespread crackdown on anti-coup protests, but defiant demonstrators again took to the streets.
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Myanmar Military Seizes Yangon City Hall: Report
Myanmar troops on Monday seized control of Yangon city hall, as signs grow of a coup d'etat after the military arrested the country's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
