Burnings and beheadings: Myanmar junta escalates terror tactics against its people
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Myanmar’s widening war headed for junta’s heartland
Even before the end of a dry season that has dramatically upended the military balance in Myanmar, the broad and profoundly sobering contours of conflict over the remainder of 2024 and into 2025 are already taking shape.
South-east Asia human trafficking now a global crisis, Interpol says
SINGAPORE — Organised crime rings who fuelled an "explosion" of human trafficking and cyber scam centres during the pandemic have expanded from South-east Asia into a global network making up to US$3 trillion (S$4 trillion) a year, the head of Interpol said on March 27.
Myanmar junta chief calls for unity, says military holding power 'temporarily'
NAPYITAW — Myanmar's ruling general said on March 27 that the junta was holding power only temporarily with the aim of strengthening democracy. He called for unity among the people and military to fight armed groups seeking to derail plans to hold an election.
Southeast Asia’s cyber scam rings have become a global network, making up to US$3 trillion yearly: Interpol
Organised crime rings who fuelled an “explosion” of human trafficking and cyber scam centres during the pandemic have expanded from Southeast Asia into a global network making up to US$3 trillion a year, the head of Interpol said on Wednesday.
Myanmar’s military makes its annual parade of strength despite unprecedented battlefield losses
BANGKOK (AP) — The head of Myanmar’s ruling military council marked Armed Forces Day on Wednesday with a speech claiming that the nation’s youth were being tricked into supporting the resistance against army rule, and that ethnic armed groups allied with the resistance engage in drug trafficking, natural resources smuggling and illegal gambling.
Hard stats on Myanmar’s revolutionary psyche
What do people in Myanmar really think of the political climate of repressive, incompetent military rule and the direction the country is headed? There is an industry of supposition, specious reasoning and sophistry that often masquerades as insight into the country’s political dynamics.
Rohingya in India accuse Modi of double standards on citizenship law
As New Delhi claims to help persecuted minorities in South Asia through the law, the mainly Muslim refugees from Myanmar face deportation.