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UN rights expert calls for cutting off Myanmar junta after crimes

GENEVA: The UN human rights expert on Myanmar said on Tuesday that Myanmar's ruling junta had murdered and tortured civilians while waging a "campaign of terror" in the year since taking power and he called for tightening sanctions against it.

Bangkok Post

Myanmar coup: Military repeats election promise, people strike

A year since seizing power Senior General Min Aung Hlaing repeats promises of an election when state of emergency ends.

Al Jazeera

‘Leave or die’: Myanmar refugees recount how they fled the junta

One year after Myanmar’s military coup, the country has been plunged into civil war. Facing escalating violence and an uncertain future, tens of thousands of people have fled their homes since the February 1 coup. FRANCE 24 spoke to refugees trying to rebuild their lives abroad, from Thailand to France.

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Myanmar Shuts Shop to Defy Junta on Coup Anniversary

Streets emptied and shops shuttered across Myanmar on Tuesday as people defied junta orders to go about their business with a silent strike on the first anniversary of the military coup. The junta that ended the Southeast Asian country's brief democratic interlude and toppled civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Myanmar takeover anniversary marked by strike, int'l concern

Opponents of military rule in Myanmar are marking the one-year anniversary of the army’s seizure of power with a nationwide strike to show their strength and solidarity amid concern about what has become an increasingly violent contention for power

The Independent UK

Myanmar coup anniversary leads to sanctions against top junta officials, but not from Australia

To mark a year since the government of Aung San Suu Kyi was overthrown by Myanmar's military, several of Australia's closest allies have imposed sanctions on several top junta officials – including its attorney-general and other senior judicial officers.

ABC News

Myanmar activists vow to defy junta with strike on coup anniversary

Myanmar's military rulers have threatened to jail anti-coup protesters who take part in a "silent strike" on Tuesday, a year since the generals seized power, as the United States, Britain and Canada imposed new sanctions.

Bangkok Post

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Activists stage ‘silent strike’ as Myanmar marks coup anniversary under fresh sanctions

Myanmar’s junta marked one year in power on Tuesday despite fresh foreign sanctions as demonstrators promised to rally against the army and its bloody crackdown.

France 24

UN envoy: Year of violence has hardened positions in Myanmar

The new U.N. special envoy for Myanmar says violence has intensified since the military took power a year ago and sparked a resistance movement in the country

The Independent UK

1 year after coup, US will slap new sanctions on Myanmar

The US issued fresh sanctions against people and entities linked to Myanmar’s military that seized control of the government a year ago, with President Joe Biden warning “further costs” will be imposed as long as the junta doesn’t hold elections.

Bangkok Post

Hundreds more illegal border crossers caught in Kanchanaburi

KANCHANABURI: Army border patrols arrested a total of 235 Myanmar job seekers who arrived in two groups in Sangkhla Buri and Muang districts on Monday, police reported.

Bangkok Post

Myanmar marks coup anniversary with protests and unrest

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Reuters

World accused of ‘sitting and watching’ as Myanmar slides to war

A year after the coup, renewed calls for action against a military accused of ‘heinous’ attacks on civilians.

Al Jazeera

Can the world stop Myanmar from becoming a failed state?

Myanmar is on the brink of collapse. One year after the coup, half the population does not have enough food. The local currency has lost 50% of its value. Foreign companies are pulling out of Myanmar. The military is shooting civilians in the streets and opponents of the military are…

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Myanmar coup: A year of protest, reprisals and diplomatic inertia

Since seizing power, the military regime has used force against opponents and struggled for diplomatic recognition.

The Times of India

Betel nut smuggling racket busted

GUWAHATI: Assam police crime branch busted a racket involved in betel nut smuggling from Myanmar via Mizoram, Meghalaya and Assam to other parts of the country, and arrested the mastermind from Guwahati on Monday.

AAP

Myanmar junta lashed year after coup

Foreign Minister Marise Payne has spoken out against the Myanmar junta a year after its coup, but Labor wants the government to go further and impose sanctions.

Bangkok Post

Myanmar's crisis and emerging traps

Today is the first anniversary of the Feb 1 seizure of power by the Tatmadaw in Nay Pyi Taw. Over the past 12 months, the overall situation in Myanmar has gone into a downward spiral and all the progress and positive developments made since 2011, when the country proudly opened…

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Junta brutality triggers desertions

Becoming a commissioned officer in the Tatmadaw was a dream for many young men in Myanmar. Among them, was Captain Zero (real name withheld for safety reasons), an army officer who was once stationed in Magway, which lies northwest of Nay Pyi Taw.

The Conversation

A year after Myanmar’s coup, the military still lacks control and the country is sliding into an intractable civil war

In the year since Myanmar’s coup on February 1 2021, the country’s prospects have deteriorated sharply, with untold misery for millions: deaths, arrests, detention, sickness, displacement, poverty and trauma.

Reuters

Factbox - Myanmar's post-coup crisis in numbers

Myanmar on Tuesday marked one year since the military ousted an elected government and took power in a country that has been ruled by generals for five of the past six decades.

ABC News

Myanmar nationals now safe in Australia reveal how they fled a military coup one year ago

These journalists faced deportation and arrest in Myanmar, but Australia took them in. Now they reveal their daring escape from the military coup.

Reuters

Myanmar's year of turmoil since a military coup

Myanmar's military seized power in a coup on Feb. 1 last year, citing unaddressed fraud in an election three months earlier won in a landslide by Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party.

The Conversation

Myanmar coup one year on: military junta threatens first executions in decades

Prisons in Myanmar have been ordered to clean the gallows, in an apparent preparation for the execution of 101 political prisoners who have been sentenced to death since the military coup one year ago. These would be the first official executions in the country in over three decades.

The Conversation

Myanmar: while the world sits on its hands, people fight military junta with violence and silence

A year after a military coup, Myanmar remains mired in conflict. The country’s military, the Tatmadaw, has failed to convince most of Myanmar’s 55 million people of the legitimacy of its rule. Anti-coup resistance continues to be widespread nationwide.

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