The NUG’s Human Rights Ministry has issued a statement identifying the victims, including seven children, and one of the military units involved.
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The Catholic leader referred to the junta’s recent massacre of schoolchildren in Depayin, urging that their ‘cries not go unheard’.
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State Department Counselor Derek Chollet called for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s release and condemned the ‘growing authoritarian partnership between Moscow and the junta’.
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Myanmar Civil Society Is Right to Criticize the UN on Aid Distribution
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