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Myanmar’s junta arrested 40 election officials Thursday and put pressure on others to back the army’s unsubstantiated voting fraud claims, relatives of the detained said, as mass protests around the country against the coup swelled with increasing support from white-collar government workers.
The military staged the coup on Feb. 1 after weeks of accusations of voting fraud in November elections that delivered a landslide win for Aung San Suu Kyi’s ruling party. The army started crying foul when its proxy party fell short even of its poor performance in 2015 elections.
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A death in Toronto brings attention again to the struggles in Pakistan’s Balochistan
Two Baloch activists in exile have been found dead this year – one in Canada, the other in Sweden. Dec 28, 2020 · 06:30 am A demonstration in Karachi after Pakistani human rights activist Karima Mehrab, also known as Karima Baloch, was found dead in Toronto, on December 24. | Rizwan Tabassum/ AFP
The death of human rights activist Karima Baloch in Toronto last week has again brought world attention to the trouble in Pakistan’s Balochistan region. The 37-year-old activist had gone missing after setting out for a walk. The police said that they had no reason to suspect foul play but her family told the BBC that “her death at least warrants closer inspection”.