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Analysis
The current regime faces an unprecedented war in the Burmese homeland and its ruinous policies must be testing the patience of its crony financial backers.
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Junta Watch
Also this week, junta is snubbed by international media, and the regime’s English-language mouthpiece becomes a laughingstock with fake tourism boast.
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Burma
The restrictions in the law favor the military proxy USDP while posing an existential threat to the NLD, observers say.
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Burma
With emergency rule likely to end this month, a ‘transitional council’ will serve as a placeholder until Min Aung Hlaing can assume the presidency after a sham election.
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Burma
The attacks have increased lately as the regime gears up to hold its sham election later this year.
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Junta Watch
Also this week, Min Aung Hlaing froths at the NLD in his fever to become president.
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War Against the Junta
The Irrawaddy’s latest roundup includes PDF raids, ambushes, assassinations and a drone strike in Sagaing, Mandalay, Magwe, Bago and Tanintharyi regions.
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War Against the Junta
The Irrawaddy’s latest roundup includes incidents in Sagaing, Magwe and Bago regions and Shan, Kayah and Chin states.
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War Against the Junta
The Irrawaddy’s latest roundup includes incidents in Sagaing, Magwe, Mandalay, Bago and Tanintharyi regions.
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Burma
Sagaing and Mandalay residents are being threatened with arson unless they show up at meetings to be coerced into voting for the military’s proxy party.
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Burma
The Yangon meeting is seen as part of USDP leader and junta henchman Khin Yi’s campaign to solidify the party’s position ahead of the sham election planned for August.
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Junta Watch
Also this week, Min Aung Hlaing boasts of diplomatic triumph after being snubbed by most of world, and fighting erupts across the country in ‘critical year for revolution’.
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Analysis
With the sham election that will deliver him the country’s highest office planned for August, the coup leader’s ambitions are becoming increasingly transparent.
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Burma
Regime set to rebrand as ‘transition council’ amid preparations to cement military rule with rigged election.
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Interview
Former US ambassador to Myanmar Scot Marciel talks to The Irrawaddy about international efforts to support the anti-junta resistance in Myanmar, among other topics.