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Myanmar Junta’s Coup Gives Greenlight to Timber Traffickers

Source: Irrawaddy

Published on Aug. 17, 2021, 8:29 a.m.

Salai, a local environmental watchdog, said that the logging trucks are headed for northern Shan State via Pinlebu, Kale and Katha, a transit hub for the timber trade, and that their final destination would be Nongdao or Ruili in China’s Yunnan Province.

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Myanmar Junta Kills Nearly 1,000 Civilians in Under 200 Days

Source: Irrawaddy

Published on Aug. 17, 2021, 8:27 a.m.

In the last month alone, at least 92 civilians were slaughtered by the regime including teenagers, student activists, protesters, National League for Democracy (NLD) members and their family members, bystanders, pedestrians and villagers

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IDPs In Muse District Running Out Of Food

Source: Kachin News Group (KNG)

Published on Aug. 16, 2021, 7:58 p.m.

Villagers who recently fled fighting in northern Shan State are running out of food because the Burma Army (BA) is preventing supplies from reaching their camp in Muse District on the Chinese border.

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Myanmar’s Junta Seen Moving to Dissolve NLD to Ensure Grip on Power

Source: Radio Free Asia (RFA)

Published on Aug. 16, 2021, 7:57 p.m.

A member of the NLD’s Central Committee told RFA’s Myanmar Service that the military regime has arrested a total of 324 NLD members—98 of whom are members of parliament (MPs)—since its Feb. 1 coup d’état.

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Ethnic Armed Organisations Clash Over Territory In Northern Shan State

Source: Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN)

Published on Aug. 16, 2021, 7:49 p.m.

The EAOs have ignored the pleas of the community and religious leaders to meet for peace talks to end the conflict.

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Karennis hit by war and pandemic in urgent need of aid, says rebel group

Source: Myanmar NOW

Published on Aug. 16, 2021, 7:04 p.m.

Some 100,000 people – more than a third of the population of the state – have fled their homes because of the violence. 

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Hippocrates Goes Underground: Young Myanmar Doctor Provides Clandestine COVID Treatment Amid Violent Coup

Source: JURIST

Published on Aug. 16, 2021, 7:01 p.m.

To learn more about how Myanmar’s medical professionals are coping with surging infection rates amid the chaos of the coup, JURIST spoke with a young doctor working on the frontlines of the crisis.

Ingrid Burke | JURIST Features Editor

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Taliban and the terror spinoff in Bangladesh

Source: Daijiworld.com

Published on Aug. 16, 2021, 5:40 p.m.

While political Islam in the region will receive a fillip, there is every possibility of heightened terror activities as terror groups allied to Afghanistan will be strengthened and yet others inspired. 

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Ousted Mandalay Chief Minister in Intensive Care with COVID-19

Source: Irrawaddy

Published on Aug. 16, 2021, 11:32 a.m.

Myanmar’s detained National League for Democracy (NLD) vice-chairman Dr. Zaw Myint Maung, who is also Mandalay Region’s chief minister, is in intensive care with COVID-19 in Mandalay.

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Myanmar Parallel Govt’s Online Lottery Sells Out in About an Hour

Source: Irrawaddy

Published on Aug. 16, 2021, 11:30 a.m.

An online lottery created by Myanmar’s parallel government has been so well received that all tickets put up for sale were sold out in just over one hour on the launch day despite the regime’s official threats to punish anyone who plays.

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