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(1) BEN YALOW OFF LA IN 2026 BID. LA in 2026 Worldcon bid chair Joyce Lloyd told File 770 today, “I can confirm that Ben Yalow is no longer a member of the bid committee.” Craig Miller, a director of the nonprofit, also said in a comment here that Yalow has resigned from SCIFI, Inc.,

The Myanmar military’s deadly attacks on civilians show no signs of stopping. The world cannot continue to look the other way while the Myanmar military relentlessly attacks civilians and civilian targets, including churches, schools and hospitals.

Air strikes have killed or injured hundreds of civilians across Myanmar in 2023, and left many feeling nowhere is safe. The best way to stop the Myanmar military from carrying out lethal air strikes is to stop all jet fuel imports into the country

Myanmar’s military has unlawfully killed, arbitrarily detained and stolen from civilians as it struggles to contain the heaviest outburst of armed resistance since the 2021 coup, Amnesty International said today.

Attacks killed and displaced civilians in Rakhine State Myanmar military arbitrarily detained civilians and looted valuables Amnesty International documents military use of cluster munitions in Shan State Myanmar’s military has unlawfully killed, arbitrarily detained and stolen from civilians as it struggles to contain the heaviest outburst of armed resistance since the 2021 coup, Amnesty International said today. Drawing on interviews with 10 civilians from Pauktaw township in Rakhine State a...

At least 12 children killed, and a reported 57 people injured The Myanmar military killed at least 28 civilians in an air strike on a displaced persons camp in an attack that may amount to a war crime, Amnesty International said today. At approximately 11.30pm on 9 October 2023, the Myanmar military launched an attack that hit the Mung Lai Hkyet displacement camp, close to the town of Laiza in Kachin State, near Myanmar’s border with China. Witnesses told Amnesty International that a large bom...

(1) WRITER LOSES EYE TO GUN VIOLENCE; FUNDRAISER STARTED. Sff author Jessie Kwak of Portland, OR was severely injured in a drive-by shooting last weekend while leaving the Mississippi Street Fair. "Author shot in eye near Mississippi Street Fair in Portland: 'My left eye exploded'" at KGW8. Jessie Kwak spent most of Saturday among hundreds

As deadly airstrikes in Myanmar's Sagaing region kill and injure civilians and destroy homes, supply of aviation fuel to Myanmar must stop.

Relentless air attacks across Myanmar highlight the urgent need to suspend the import of aviation fuel.

News and Press Release in English on Myanmar about Protection and Human Rights; published on 11 Apr 2023 by Amnesty