Wärtsilä claims to have severed its relationship with Myanmar firm MCM and its ex-director, known arms broker Aung Hlaing Oo, dismissing leaked documents suggesting otherwise as a ‘forgery’
As hundreds are feared dead in western Myanmar, most of the Cyclone Mocha’s confirmed victims are IDPs who died after drowning in a tidal surge that followed the storm’s landfall
Win Mya Mya was sentenced to three years in prison in June 2022 on an incitement charge, but was not included in the Myanmar junta’s amnesty earlier this month
The storm comes just weeks after the 15th anniversary of Cyclone Nargis, the deadliest natural disaster in Myanmar’s history
The attack comes less than a month after a similar aerial assault by regime forces killed 170 people, including dozens of children