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It is alarming that the military authorities are taking steps to carry out Myanmar’s first known executions since the late 1980s.

The violent repression of health workers by the junta is a crime against humanity and has created a massive healthcare crisis in the country.

Doctors and nurses are being openly targetted by Burma’s military junta By Contributor 3rd June 2021 An Open Letter to the Irish Medical Community May 13, 2021 Dear Irish Medical Community, I am a Burmese doctor and an Irish medical graduate. I had been living a relatively normal life with my family outside Ireland (within the EU), when on the morning of February 1 this year, my husband woke me up to inform me that a military coup had taken place in my homeland, Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. I was shocked and upset, as all Burmese people were since that awful day. In Burmese histo...

‘We are living in fear’: hundreds of doctors are in hiding for opposing Myanmar’s brutal coup Doctors have been leading the civil disobedience movement, refusing to work for government hospitals – but they face heavy consequences 6 May 2021 • 4:47pm Protesters make the three-finger salute during a demonstration against the military coup in downtown Yangon Credit: STR /AFP Since April 1, Dr Khin has been unable to sleep in his own bed in his family home. Instead, he often lies awake in undercover locations, listening as military patrol cars circle the streets of Mandalay, Myanmar’...