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2023-04-23 Southeast Asia

Deputy head of Myanmar’s election commission has been shot dead in Yangon by rebel fighters

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Posted by Fred 2023-04-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Rolling Stone, April 15: "In February 2021, a decade-long period of quasi-democracy ended in Myanmar when the military seized back power. Protesters were gunned down..., and opposition supporters arrested, tortured, and disappeared. But unlike past uprisings, this generation is refusing to back down. Revolutionary militias called People’s Defense Forces (PDFs) made up of mostly Burmans, the country’s ethnic majority, are attacking the regime in cities and lowland areas that have never before seen fighting, and bolstering ethnic armed groups in the borderlands. Violence in Burma is... 'at its highest level since World War II.' ... In an unusual arrangement, FBR and ethnic resistance groups cooperate, drill, and work out side by side... Under pressure, the junta’s army is doing what it always has but at greater scale: torching villages; executing political prisoners; and deliberately targeting schools, churches, and large civilian gatherings with airstrikes to sow terror. ... To date, thousands have died and more than 3 million people are internally displaced.

Posted by Slavising Unineting5672 2023-04-23 08:58|| 2023-04-23 08:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Tragic indeed. Old Polish proverb often used today:

“Not my circus, not my monkeys.” It's a way of saying, “Don't drag me into your drama and your issues—I'm not getting involved.”

Posted by Besoeker 2023-04-23 09:01|| 2023-04-23 09:01|| Front Page Top

#3 A British high risk contractor team and Rambo could help.

Posted by badanov 2023-04-23 09:38|| 2023-04-23 09:38|| Front Page Top

#4 CIA activities in Myanmar

The US Opium Wars: China, Burma and the CIA

Posted by Skidmark 2023-04-23 09:40|| 2023-04-23 09:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Not mentioned in the article, above, is the role the CIA station at Chiang Mai played in attacking the role of Khun Sa and the movement of opium (and jade) through Burma's Shan State and the Golden Triangle. It was rather effective.

Posted by Slavising Unineting5672 2023-04-23 10:34|| 2023-04-23 10:34|| Front Page Top

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