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Islamic Community of Bryan-College Station reflects on Myanmar military takeover
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BRAZOS VALLEY, TX â On Feb 1., the world learned of Myanmar s government being taken over by its military for one year.
The announcement, aired on the military-owned Myawaddy TV, stated that the military-drafted constitution, which was ratified in 2008, allows the military to take control in times of national emergency.
In part, the military cited the governmentâs failure to act on their claims of voter fraud in the last Nov. elections. However, as of Feb 2., the military has not presented any proof to back its claims.
Published February 1, 2021
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The Australian government has condemned the actions of the Myanmar military after the country’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi was detained in what appears to be a military coup.
However, it’s hard to take the words of our own government seriously when its actions are the complete opposite. They’ve spent at least $400,000 of taxpayer money on funding the very people they’re now condemning. There’s the more than $3 million to a company heavily linked to the Myanmar military. And you expect us to take your words of condemnation without so much as a raised eyebrow? Right.
January 29th 2021, Buea Cameroon – A source at Cameroon Concord News Group has confirmed that another assassination has taken place by government forces. It has been reported that the victims were four minors all under seventeen. The “ethnic” war in Cameroun’s formerly UK occupied region is still using innocent people as collateral damage. In the past four years, according to reliable sources, over 20,000 people have lost their lives in the crossfire between forces of the regime in Yaoundé and pro-independence forces otherwise known as the self-declared Federal Republic of Ambazonia (2017).
The terror in Bamenda on Saturday, 23 January 2021, has caused anger amongst the local population and human rights organisations. However, a statement released by the Cameroun Ministry of Defense dated, 27 January 2021, labelled the insurgency as a misrepresentation of the facts. The official statement contradicts UK broadcasting Corporation, the BBC investigation report on 26 January 20
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Police and local authorities in Rakhine state’s Kyauktaw township on Monday took statements from family members of villagers believed to have been abducted last year by Myanmar military forces, with a military spokesman promising explanations if the army is shown to have been involved, Myanmar sources said.
The 18 men were taken away in two batches in mid-March, 2020 when soldiers from a Myanmar military infantry unit entered their community in Kyauktaw township amid fighting with the rebel Arakan Army (AA), later burning down dozens of homes in the 500-home ethnic Rakhine village tract.
Eight of the 18 Kyauktaw villagers were taken from Tin Ma Thit village on March 13, while the other 10 from Tin May Gyi village were arrested by troops on March 16, all on suspicion of having ties to the AA. The body of one of them was discovered a day later in a river, riddled with bullet holes.