Military-ruled Myanmar, already notorious for cracking down on free speech, has enacted a new cybersecurity law with wide-ranging controls on the flow of information, according to a text of the measure published Friday in state-run newspapers. Existing restrictions on freedom of expression under t...
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Myanmar was reeling on Monday after yet another day saw the mass-killing of protestersin the wake of the military coup a month and a half ago. Pro-democracy protesters demanding an end to military rule and the release of civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi from prison have refused to...
-opponents of military rule in myanmar observed a "silent strike" on friday, with many people staying home to mourn the more than 700 people killed in protests against a feb. 1 coup and others wearing black held small marches in several cities and towns. many myanmar citizens, infuriated by...
Families and friends of prisoners gathered outside Insein Prison as buses full of released prisoners drove through its gates. It's not clear if any of the released prisoners included the political detainees jailed for opposing army rule.
The military regime that seized power in Myanmar 3 1/2 years ago extended a state of emergency in the civil war-wracked country for another six months, saying it needs time to prepare for long-promised elections.
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BANGKOK--The political party led by Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi was ordered dissolved by the military-appointed election commission on Tuesday because it failed to register for a planned general election, state television MRTV reported. Suu
U.N. officials say that Myanmar’s escalating conflict and worst violence since the military takeover in 2021 are having a devastating impact on human rights, fundamental freedoms and basic needs of millions of people.
“The Burma military regime’s extension of the state of emergency is at odds with the aspirations of the people of Burma, including their continued strong opposition to military rule,” U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said, using Myanmar’s former name. “We call on the reg...