BREAKING: Acting President Duwa Lashi La of #Myanmar’s @NUGMyanmar gov announces that from today Sep 7, 2021 the defensive war against the military junta has been launched — urges the citizens to revolt against the junta in every corner of the country.
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"Myanmar’s junta detained around 150 civilians, including young activists, elected National League for Democracy lawmakers and striking civil servants, over 10 days this month as it continues its crackdown on the opposition." https://t.co/KK6Ic5UfNA
As ethnic armies expand their reach and resistance groups take up arms, post-coup Myanmar is dissolving into pieces.
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Myanmar’s junta has arrested two more local journalists: Sithu Aung Myint, a columnist for news site Frontier Myanmar and a commentator with Voice of America radio, and Htet Htet Khine, a freelance who has worked for the BBC Burmese service. https://t.co/7waUUmC26E
I wish the Chinese and Russian governments would just be honest and explain that they oppose sanctions against Myanmar's junta because they oppose any action against dictatorships like themselves. Some ASEAN members feel the same way. https://t.co/RTivV16POw
The Myanmar junta, through its proxies, is "increasingly comparing civilian resistance fighters to Islamic terrorist groups, and spreading disinformation that blames Muslims for attacks" -- an echo of its brutal attacks on Rohingya Muslims. https://t.co/xq1V80Ktkd
Myanmar's military authorities will release around 700 prisoners from Yangon's Insein jail, prison chief Zaw Zaw told Reuters. It's not clear whether any of the thousands of political prisoners detained since the Feb. 1 coup will be among them. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
"An American journalist who was detained for three months in Myanmar says he was tortured and feared he would die in an interrogation cell." Imagine how the thousands of non-Americans wrongfully detained by the murderous Myanmar junta feel. https://t.co/o8RN3rvrpj
"The regime’s heavy-handed, indiscriminate retaliation has displaced tens of thousands of men, women and children," says @crisisgroup on Myanmar https://t.co/r5jAKtvavT #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
“Their post-mortem report said that the girl died of excessive bleeding. However, the body was sealed and returned to us with the claim that she had Covid-19,” a family member told @Myanmar_Now_Eng https://t.co/tCO9uoyVQp #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
An illustration of the Myanmar junta's torture: a 17-year-old boy, accused of being a protest ringleader, said he was beaten for days while blindfolded and was forced into a pit, then buried up to his neck in a mock burial. https://t.co/x5U8zXFdbT