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Myanmar coup anniversary: A world looks away from country’s descent into horror
CNN — Content warning: This story contains descriptions of violence against children and images viewers may find disturbing. Bhone Tayza had been impatient to start school. A broken arm had kept the 7-year-old home while the other kids began their lessons, but now that his cast was off, he couldn’t wait to join in. His mother, Thida Win, was still worried. “Just stay home for today,” she recalls telling her son on his third day back at school last September – but he went anyway. Hours later, the airstrike hit. Thida Win was home, in the central Sagaing region of Myanmar, when army helicopters began firing “heavy weapons” including machine…
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‘The worry is Russia’: UN delays Myanmar representation decision | Politics News
Bangkok, Thailand and Yangon, Myanmar – The United Nations has delayed a final decision on who should represent Myanmar amid problem that Russia, which has turn out to be progressively shut to Myanmar’s coup leaders, could sabotage initiatives to attain an intercontinental consensus on the crisis-torn state. The UN’s Credentials Committee, composed of nine UN-member states, which include China, Russia and the United States, started off conference on November 29. Less than consideration is who ought to stand for Myanmar: sitting down UN Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun, appointed by the elected governing administration of leader Aung San Suu Kyi, or a nominee of the generals who staged the coup that…
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