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Myanmar junta hits ethnic rebels with air strikes near India border

January 12, 2023PressAdda

Kathmandu: Myanmar’s junta has carried out air strikes on an ethnic armed group’s base near the border with India, the rebels and media said Wednesday, with one bomb landing close to the international boundary. The military coup almost two years ago has sparked renewed fighting with long-established ethnic rebel groups, as well as with dozens […]

UN expert questions sincerity of Myanmar’s prisoner release

November 22, 2022PressAdda

Kathmandu : The recent release of thousands of prisoners in Myanmar is likely an attempt by its military-controlled government to “create a veneer of progress” in the country to sway international opinion, a U.N. expert said Monday. Myanmar freed about 5,700 prisoners on the occasion of the National Victory Day last Thursday. Among them were […]

Myanmar junta to release UK ex-ambassador Australian and Japanese prisoners

November 17, 2022PressAdda

Kathmandu: Myanmar’s military said Thursday it will release almost 6,000 prisoners, including a former British ambassador, a Japanese journalist and an Australian economics adiser, in a rare olie branch from the isolated junta. The Southeast Asian country has been in turmoil since the military’s coup last year and a bloody crackdown on dissent during which […]

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