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Thompson Chau

UK, Canada, Taiwan criticise Myanmar as generals unleash ‘corrective purge’

Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, which won the last election in a landslide, has been dissolved [File: Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo]

Taipei, Taiwan – The United Kingdom and Canada have joined the United States in condemning plans by Myanmar’s coup leaders to hold tightly controlled elections, as Taiwan voiced strong criticism of the regime’s atrocities and crackdown on its opponents.

Their condemnation is an indication of the hardening divisions between China and Russia on one side, and Western nations and their allies on the other, as well as self-ruled Taiwan’s willingness to champion democratic causes on the global stage.

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