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Also this week, Min Aung Hlaing grants handouts for infants after air campaign kills more than 260 children, and security crackdown puts political prisoners in firing line.
Self-serving accounts by insiders are short on accuracy but offer some insight into the military’s blinkered view of its role in politics and national security.
The junta has appointed two ex-military “poets” to lead the Myanmar Press Council.
There are thought to be only about a dozen people left who make pattalas in Myanmar.
Almost all of the high-profile cases since independence have involved persecution by the military, or the trial of someone trying to kill a military dictator.