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A powerful armed ethnic group in Myanmar said on Sunday (May 19) it had won control over a town in the western state of Rakhine after weeks of fighting, denying accusations it had targeted members of the Muslim-minority Rohingya during the offencive.
BANGKOK (AP) — A powerful ethnic armed group fighting Myanmar’s military government in the country’s western state of Rakhine claimed Saturday to have seized a town near the border with Bangladesh, marking the latest in a series of victories for foes of the country’s military government.
TOKYO -- A minister in Myanmar's parallel government and high-ranking leaders of three ethnic armed organizations held a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday in a rare joint move on foreign soil intended to emphasize their unity against the military regime.
“Outrage is not a policy: coming to terms with Myanmar’s fragmented state”, published on Sunday by the Lowy Institute think tank, argues that while the combination of sanctions and humanitarian assistance used by foreign governments so far was a reasonable starting point, “neither tool holds any real prospect of significantly influencing the course of the conflict”.
BANGKOK (AP) — Reports that soldiers of Myanmar’s military government last week carried out a massacre of more than 30 civilians in a village in central Myanmar were supported Monday in interviews with a local administrator and a man who says he survived the killings.
BANGKOK -- Moves by Thailand and Japan to engage with Myanmar's resistance indicate a shift in policies that previously favored Naypyitaw's military regime and excluded key resistance organizations such as the parallel National Unity Government.
BANGKOK (AP) — Six months into an offensive against Myanmar ’s military government, opposition forces have made massive gains, but civilian casualties are rising sharply as regime troops increasingly turn toward scorched-earth tactics in the Southeast Asian country’s bitter civil war.
BANGKOK/YANGON -- Myanmar has been fighting a losing battle to stabilize its currency, despite employing a wide range of tools, and ordinary people are paying for it in the form of runaway inflation.