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How cyberscams are drawing China into Myanmar’s civil war - Vox
Last fall, a coalition of rebel groups known as the Three Brotherhood Alliance launched a rapid-fire offensive across Myanmar’s northern Shan state, quickly overrunning more than 100 military outposts and seizing several key towns along the country’s border with China. This in itself was not unusual. Myanmar’s military government has faced insurgencies from ethnic and political militias for decades...
Myanmar’s pro-democracy forces can win. They need our help to do so - Washington Post
Nov. 8 marked the third anniversary of elections in Myanmar, whose results were overturned by a military coup on Feb. 1, 2021. The coup set in motion some of the largest, most diverse protests in the country’s history, which subsequently led to a brutal crackdown on pro-democracy activists. Today, the junta is prosecuting a war of terror, marked by airstrikes against civilians, the blocking of humanitarian aid to the...
Chinese Authorities Issue Arrest Warrants for Criminal Kingpins in Myanmar’s Kokang Region - The Diplomat
Chinese police have issued arrest warrants for several members of a junta-aligned crime family that it believes is closely involved in online scamming operations in northeast Myanmar, as resistance forces continue to make gains across the region. According to the CyberScamMonitor account on X (formerly Twitter), which cited warrants from the Wenzhou City Public Security Bureau in Zhejiang Province, Chinese police are seeking the arrest of...
Chinese Cybercrime Syndicates in Myanmar Now Target Victims Worldwide - Voice of America
Organized criminal groups from China operating on the Thai-Myanmar border are threatening internet users worldwide with online scams and financial fraud, using trafficked “cyber slaves” to carry out their crimes, according to a new report by the congressionally established United States...
Thai women tell of being trafficked, caught up in prostitution inside Myanmar - Benar News/Radio Free Asia
Promises of high-paid entertainment jobs lured the three Thai women to Myanmar, but they found themselves trapped into prostitution in Shan state near the Chinese border before they escaped, they said in telling the stories about their ordeal. Sisters A and Aoy, and their friend, Ploy – all in their late 20s – said...
US finding that Myanmar army committed genocide against Rohingya to have limited effect - The Straits Times (Singapore)
Congress, however, will take some action based on the finding, analysts say. This is "the opening salvo in the roll-out of a wider US strategy for responding to the current situation in Myanmar that has been requested by the Senate," Ms Priscilla Clapp, a former top US diplomat in Myanmar and now a senior adviser at USIP.
U.S., U.K. and Canada slap new sanctions on Myanmar, 1 year on - Nikkei Asia
The U.S. on Monday imposed new sanctions against individuals and entities associated with Myanmar's rulers in coordination with Britain and Canada, ahead of the one-year anniversary of the military takeover that ousted the country's democratically elected government...
We cannot turn away from the crisis unfolding in Myanmar - The Hill
A year later, the Feb. 1, 2021, military coup in Myanmar against the popularly elected civilian government has turned into an unmitigated disaster. The increasingly brutal military response to unarmed civilian resistance has triggered mounting waves of violence, engulfing almost every township across the country in civil war. The expanding conflict has claimed thousands of lives and internally displaced over 320,000 civilians. The junta’s forces have burned entire villages, massacred aid workers, and taken the lives of nearly 1,500 civilians...
Myanmar military ‘fighting for its life’ in face of ‘unprecedented’ resistance to coup - PBS NewsHour
It has been more than 10 months since Myanmar’s military seized power in a coup. Its soldiers have since fought with urban protestors and rural militias using brutal violence. Activists accuse the military of killing more than 1300, and detaining more than 11,000.