Myanmar

• U.S. intends to declare Rohingya repression in Myanmar a ‘genocide’: officials

  Secretary of State Antony Blinken plans to make the long-anticipated designation on Monday at an event at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, according to officials.

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  Mar 20
  
• Cambodia prime minister visits Myanmar for talks with junta, sparking protests

  Cambodia, the current chair of the ASEAN, has been leading diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis in Myanmar and which adopted a five-point "consensus" peace plan in April.

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  Jan 7
  
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• Save the Children staff among 35 killed in Myanmar Christmas Eve attack, group says

  The group, which has blamed the military junta for the slayings, said the two staff members were returning from conducting humanitarian activities nearby when they were killed.

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  Dec 28, 2021
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• More than 30 reported killed, bodies set on fire in Myanmar

  Myanmar government troops rounded up villagers, some believed to be women and children, a witness and other reports said.

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  Dec 25, 2021
• Former Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi receives four years in prison

  The sentencing was the first in a series of cases in which the 76-year-old Aung San Suu Kyi is being prosecuted since the army seized power on Feb. 1.

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  Dec 6, 2021
• UN unlikely to allow Taliban, Myanmar junta to represent their countries, diplomats say

  Rival claims have been made for the seats of both countries with the Taliban and Myanmar's junta pitted against ambassadors appointed by the governments they ousted this year.

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  Dec 1, 2021
• Over 3 million people in Myanmar need life-saving aid since military coup, UN says

  The U.N. humanitarian chief urged the military to act "because of growing conflict and insecurity, COVID-19 and a failing economy."

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  Nov 9, 2021
• Myanmar junta’s attacks on civilians were ‘crimes against humanity’: UN investigator

  The Feb. 1 military takeover followed November elections which Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party won overwhelmingly and the military rejects as fraudulent.

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  Nov 6, 2021
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• Over 160 Myanmar homes set ablaze after government army shelling, reports say

  There were no immediate reports of casualties from the fire in Thantlang, which started early Friday and burned through the night, according to reports.

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  Oct 30, 2021
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• ‘Civil war’ has spread throughout Myanmar, United Nations envoy says

  U.N. envoy Christine Schraner Burgener said that the measures could be sanctions imposed by individual countries or by the U.N. Security Council, "but it's up to them."

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  Oct 27, 2021