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Myanmar
At least 10 civilians killed as Myanmar’s military lashes out over Arakan Army offensive
The AA claims the junta is stepping up its attacks on civilians as it loses its grip over northern Rakhine and southern Chin states
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Three members of Arakan Liberation Party shot dead in Rakhine State capital
The organisation’s vice chair was among the victims of the attack, which was carried out by unidentified assailants
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Rakhine restaurants shut down, accused of funding ‘terrorism’
Myanmar’s anti-money laundering authority alleged the Yangon eateries were used as fronts to fund the Arakan Army
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Politics
‘Rohingya calendar’ men appear in court
Five people who were sent to jail for their involvement in printing a calendar that stated that Rohingya Muslims are an ethnic-religious minority in Burma made a brief appearance at Rangoon’s Pazundaung Township Court on Tuesday. On 23 November the men – two Buddhists and three Muslims – were fined US$800 each under the 2014 Printing and Publishing Law’s Article 4, which bars individuals from publishing materials that could damage national security and law and order. The following day they were sent to Rangoon’s Insein Prison after also being charged with the Penal Code’s Article 505 (b). The charge, which carries a prison sentence for publishing information that may “cause public fear or alarm,” was widely used during junta rule to incarcerate political prisoners. At Tuesday’s hearing, a police officer who acts as plaintiff in the case told. . . Subscribe for full access to Get unlimited access to high-quality reporting from the frontlines and support independent journalism. Subscribe Now Already a subscriber? Log in
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With Rohingya disenfranchised, NLD takes on nationalists in southern Rakhine
Soe Win, a National League for Democracy (NLD) candidate, clutches the microphone and paces about as he shouts questions at a crowd of hundreds of Buddhist Rakhine residents in Sin Khaung village. “Was it Aung San Suu Kyi who ordered assaults on the Buddhist monks protesting against the military dictatorship back in 2007? Did she order the attack on the monks with firebombs protesting against a Chinese-funded copper mine at Letpadaung Mountain in 2012?” “No!” the villagers shout back in unison, applauding his rousing campaign speech along a dusty road in a remote village east of Thandwe, southern Rakhine State’s biggest town. The only group in Myanmar that ever hurt Buddhist monks, the NLD candidate said, was the military and the former generals now in the current. . . Subscribe for full access to Get unlimited access to high-quality reporting from the frontlines and support independent journalism. Subscribe Now Already a subscriber? Log in
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