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How Myanmar’s Rohingya refugees feel about Aung San Suu Kyi: ‘She was a rag doll who never had absolute power’
Sitting in a dimly-lit bamboo shelter in the world’s largest refugee camp, Rohingya Muslims like Azizur Rehman could be ...
UN calls on Myanmar junta to release Aung San Suu Kyi and respect earthquake recovery ceasefire
The United Nations called for full amnesty for jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi and others detained since the 2021 coup as it condemned the junta’s more than 100 military strikes in the ...
The Independent29d
What to know about Myanmar's natural disasters and civil war complicating relief efforts
which began after the army seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021. The main resistance movement against military rule has issued a statement saying it is ...
Wall Street Journal17d
Aung San Suu Kyi Set to Meet Obama
The visit to the White House of Myanmar’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, on Sept. 14 is likely to renew the question of whether President Barack Obama is ready to lift the remaining U.S ...
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‘Myanmar is under the yoke of a pariah regime’: Calls grow in UK for release of Aung San Suu Kyi from prison
Calls are growing in the UK for Aung San Suu Kyi to be released from prison where she has been held for the last four years by Myanmar’s military regime. Former foreign ministers Andrew Mitchell ...
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Fort Wayne event raises $20,000 for humanitarian efforts in Myanmar
who helped organize the Fort Wayne visit by the son of Burmese pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi, said the amount was at least twice as much as he had expected. Kim Aris is on an eight-city ...
Sydney Morning Herald29d
Even as the earthquake death toll rose in Myanmar, the junta’s bombs kept falling
Sean Turnell, a Sydney academic who served as an economic adviser to deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, said bombing in the country’s four-year civil war had struck Karen state after the quake ...