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Regional Myanmar Protest Leader Appears in Court on Widely Derided Murder Charge Ko Wai Moe Naing. By The Irrawaddy 24 April 2021 Prominent anti-regime protest leader Ko Wai Moe Naing and 41 others were brought to court on Friday for an initial hearing in murder cases against them that have been widely dismissed as spurious, according to Monywa District Lawyers Network. Since anti-regime protests broke out in early February in Monywa, the Muslim man had been at the forefront of the rallies. Monywa is a business hub on the eastern bank of the Chindwin River and the largest city in Sagaing Re...

Myanmar’s military on ‘killing spree’ against protesters: AmnestyInternational 2021-03-11, by Editor Comments Off 1 The Myanmar military is using lethal tactics and an arsenal of battlefield weapons to carry out a “killing spree” against peaceful protesters who oppose the February 1 coup, Amnesty International said on Thursday after analysing video and photographic evidence from the past few weeks of mass protests. The cache of 55 video clips offer visual proof of the “systematic and premeditated killings”, Amnesty said in...

US Citizen Among the Advisers to Myanmar Military Regime Despite Sanctions Imposed by US Dr. Salai Ngun Cung Lian in 2020. / The Irrawaddy 28.7k By Nyein Nyein 20 February 2021 Myanmar’s military regime formed an advisory board to its State Administrative Council (SAC) on Thursday, and one of its seven members is a United States citizen, despite the fact that the US has imposed sanctions on coup leaders. Dr. Salai (Andrew) Ngun Cung Lian, a United States citizen, is former legal counsel for the defunct Myanmar Peace Center and Rakhine State Inquiry Commission under the President U Thein S...

Six Members of Rebel Group Along Myanmar-Indian Border Charged With Unlawful Association People’s Liberation Army of Manipur (PLA) fighters. / naukrinama 3.3k By Salai Thant Zin 19 January 2021 Sagaing Region authorities have filed charges against an officer and five other members of the People’s Liberation Army of Manipur (PLA), a rebel group fighting the Indian government from bases along the Myanmar-India border, under the Unlawful Association Act and the Immigration Act. Five Meitei rebels were arrested at Chindwin River Bridge in Monywa, Sagaing Region in northwestern Myanmar in Au...