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Su Thit has a table in a corner by the window in her home. She no longer sits there at night. “You never know when the bullets will fly,” she says. She fears the Myanmar military might shoot at random. At 8 pm, when people still bang pots and pans in protest, security forces will sometimes fire at the sounds — with slingshots, stones, bullets. Su Thit, a pseudonym she is using for her safety, lives in Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city. She began protesting in early February, when demonstrators swarmed the streets in defiance of a military coup that toppled the country’s quasi-democrati...

Rohingya, like any other persecuted community, deserve humanitarian treatment By Fatima Hasan|   Published: 14th April 2021 11:09 pm IST Rohingya Muslims living in refugee camps based in the outskirts of Hyderabad. Photo: Mohammed Hussain At a time  when the military has once again taken over the reign of the Myanmar and  also when the junta is facing backlash from the several countries, the United Nations can play an important role by invoking clauses of human rights. Since 1970 Rohingya have been displaced and were taking refuge in the neighboring Bangladesh, but the atrocities on ...

I Took Part in the US-South Korean War Drills. They Make All of Us Less Safe. Korean Americans outside the White House in Washington, D.C., in March 2021. Echo Today, as the United States and South Korea begin their annual combined military exercises, I’m reminded of the two years I spent in South Korea as a member of the U.S. Army and my participation in military war games in 2004. Like most Americans, I was blissfully ignorant of how these joint military exercises — which simulate war on the Korean Peninsula and have involved tens of thousands of troops — damage the psyche of...

Videos posted to Chinese-owned site show men in military gear threatening to kill protesters<br>

2 minutes read By Gaspar Ruiz-Canela Bangkok, Feb 18 (efe-epa).- If fear is anxiety over risk or harm, the Rohingya have many reasons to have it after the military coup in Myanmar, where the military have mistreated this Muslim ethnic group for decades. The last time was in 2017, when the army launched a military campaign against them that left thousands of deaths, rapes, the devastation of entire villages and the exodus of more than 720,000 Rohingya to neighboring Bangladesh, which is being investigated for alleged genocide in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague. An estim...